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50. Which of the components on Blake & Mouton’s Leadership Grid has medium
concern for interpersonal relationships and task accomplishment?
A. authority compliance
B. country club
C. impoverished
D. middle of the road
51. Which of the components on Blake and Mouton’s Leadership Grid has high concern
for both interpersonal relationships and task accomplishment?
A. team
B. country club
C. impoverished
D. middle of the road
52. The behavioral approach describes ______.
A. what leaders do
B. who leaders are
C. skills leaders possess
D. traits leaders display
53. The focus of behavioral approach is on ______.
A. personality factors
B. follower actions
C. leader actions
D. leader capabilities
54. Which approach describes how leaders act?
A. trait
B. skills
C. leader-member exchange
D. behavioral
55. Researchers studying the behavioral approach determined that leadership is
composed of two general kinds of behaviors: ______.
A. directive and supportive
B. task and relationship
C. directive and authoritative
D. supportive and authoritative
56. Mia expresses interest in her employees’ personal and professional lives. She is
demonstrating ______.
A. task behaviors
B. process behaviors
C. relationship behaviors
D. directing behaviors
57. You tell your staff how and when to do their jobs. You are using ______.
A. process behaviors
B. task behaviors
C. relationship behaviors
D. directing behaviors
58. I am meeting my new team, which I will directly supervise for the first time. I
introduce myself and jump right into the agenda items for the jobs each team member
will be assigned. I am using ______.
A. authoritative behaviors
B. delegating behaviors
C. relationship behaviors
D. task behaviors
59. I am meeting my new team, which I will directly supervise for the first time. I
introduce myself and invite each team member to share some interesting facts about
themselves unrelated to work. I am using ______.
A. authoritative behaviors
B. task behaviors
C. relationship behaviors
D. directing behaviors
60. I am able to identify task and relationship types of behaviors in my leader. I am
applying the main focus of which leadership approach?
A. behavioral
B. skills
C. trait
D. path-goal
61. Jennifer can see that her leader sometimes directs the team and sometimes tries to
build relationships with the group. She does not change her behaviors based on whom
she is interacting with; Jennifer just can pick out when she uses these two different
styles. Jennifer’s leader is using ______.
A. situational leadership
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B. path-goal leadership
C. skills leadership
D. behavioral leadership
62. I get involved with my team and create a positive environment while directing daily
operations and keeping results of the team high. I am using ______.
A. authority compliance leadership
B. team leadership
C. country club leadership
D. middle of the road leadership
63. I am really not interested in interacting with my staff nor do I put much emphasis at
all on how the team performs. I am using ______.
A. authority compliance leadership
B. team leadership
C. impoverished leadership
D. pseudotransformational leadership
64. Behavioral approach contributes to leadership understanding by ______.
A. expanding focus to what leaders do
B. focusing in on leader characteristics
C. expanding focus to who leaders are
D. focusing on adaptive leadership
65. Which of the following is a strength of the behavioral approach?
A. the research supports how leader behaviors affect performance outcomes
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B. the research found the high-high style to be the most effective
C. he wide range of research on leadership behaviors gives it credibility
D. the research found a universal style that is effective in all situations
66. Which of the following is not a criticism of the behavioral approach?
A. the research supports how leader behaviors affect performance outcomes
B. the behavioral approach is heuristic
C. the research found the high-high style to be the most effective
D. the research found a universal style that is effective in all situations
67. I am doing a training program for staff to help them understand how to integrate
both task and relationship behaviors in the workplace. I am applying the main
components of which approach in this training session?
A. situational
B. behavioral
C. path-goal
D. skills
68. I am doing a training program for staff to help them understand how to integrate
both task and relationship behaviors in the workplace using the Leadership Grid. I am
using the results from which set of researchers?
A. the Ohio State University
B. the University of Michigan
C. Kouzes and Posner
D. Blake and Mouton
69. Collectively among all the research on the Behavioral Approach, what is one
consistent finding from the research?
A. the high task–high relationship style is best
B. the middle-of-the-road style is what most followers prefer
C. the opportunistic style is what most leaders use
D. there was no universal style determined to be best
70. Blake and Mouton’s research identified ______.
A. how leaders combine concern for results and concern for people
B. how task and relationship behaviors are part of one continuum
C. how leader and follower behaviors are on two separate continua
D. how opportunism as a behavior style focuses on followers roles
71. Relationship behaviors ______.
A. facilitate goal accomplishment
B. focus on personal advantage for the leader
C. help group members feel comfortable with one another
D. involve the leader assigning tasks to favorite followers
72. The central purpose(s) of the behavioral approach is ______.
A. to describe how leaders combine two main types of behaviors
B. to discover which personal qualities correlate to effective behaviors
C. o assess how leader traits influence followers
D. to explain leader competencies
73. Using the behavioral approach, ______.
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A. leaders can determine what actions will lead to specific organizational outcomes
B. leaders can learn a lot about themselves in how they are perceived by others
C. followers can plot the personality traits of their leaders on a map
D. followers can seek maternal/paternal leaders that best match their needs
74. The LBDQ used today was originally constructed from a ______.
A. list of more than 1,800 items
B. personality inventory
C. a set of questions answered by small groups
D. focus group data
75. Relationship behaviors include ______.
A. consideration
B. results orientation
C. focus on workload
D. production orientation
76. Task behaviors include ______.
A. consideration
B. initiating structure
C. employee orientation
D. trust building
77. Which of the following is a strength of the behavioral approach?
A. it can accurately predict employee job satisfaction
B. the universal style of team leadership is best
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C. the wide range of research on leadership behaviors gives it credibility
D. the research supports that task and relationship behaviors lead to positive team
outcomes
78. Which of the following is a criticism of the behavioral approach?
A. there is no instrument to identify leader behaviors
B. the universal style of team leadership is best
C. the wide range of research on leadership behaviors gives it credibility
D. the research has not shown how leader’s behaviors correlate with performance
outcomes
79. The LBDQ identified which core leadership behavior?
A. team
B. country club
C. initiating structure
D. opportunism
80. The leader of your club is a fun person. She sets up a great atmosphere at meetings
and events, but your club never really gets any work done and accomplishes few of its
stated goals. This leadership style can most accurately be plotted where on the
Leadership Grid?
A. 7, 2
B. 5, 4
C. 2, 8
D. 9, 9
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True/False
1. Creating a timeline for subordinates to follow is a relationship leader behavior.
2. Assisting group members in building cohesiveness is primarily a task behavior.
3. In the Leadership Grid, the 9, 9 type of leader prefers the middle ground, soft–pedals
disagreement, and swallows convictions in the interest of progress.
4. According to Blake and Mouton, the “authority compliance manager” is highly
concerned with people and has little concern for results.
5. In the Leadership Grid, a person who uses but does not integrate the 1, 9 and 9, 1
behavioral styles of leadership could be called a “benevolent dictator.”
6. According to the Leadership Grid, opportunistic leaders rely primarily on the 5, 5 style
of leadership.
7. Only leaders at the top level of an organization can effectively apply task and
relationship behaviors.
8. The behavioral approach is used in many training and development programs.
9. A criticism of the behavioral approach is that the research on behavioral approaches
has not adequately shown how leaders’ behaviors are associated with performance
outcomes.
10. The behavioral approach works by telling leaders how to behave.
Short Answer
1. Considering Blake and Mouton’s Leadership Grid, name a leader action that is
associated with Team Management.
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2. Considering Blake and Mouton’s Leadership Grid, what variable is along the x-axis?
3. Your boss at work is very direct. He manages you very closely, checks your work, yet
he does not know your name even though you have worked there for 3 months. What
numeric coordinates would you use to plot your boss’s behavior on the Leadership
Grid?
4. What two main types of behaviors does the Behavioral Approach highlight in a
leader’s style?
5. Your friend is also studying leadership theory at another university. He says his
professor discounts the Behavioral Approach because it is not conclusive or
prescriptive. What does he mean?
1. In terms of the Leadership Grid, which leadership style would be most difficult to
change? Support your answer.
2. Defend or refute: Opportunistic leadership can be justified in certain situations.
3. Write a scenario in which middle-of-the road leadership style would be the optimal
choice. How would it be preferable to each of the other four leadership styles on the
grid?
4. In Blake and Mouton’s Leadership Grid, a leader whose actions would plot on the grid
at 3, 7 would be using what types of leader behaviors and at what degree?
5. I have observed my leader interacting with all of us followers by sharing funny stories
and getting us to share what we are doing both in and outside of work, and the work
atmosphere is usually quite fun and energetic. I am a little concerned that we are not
meeting our sales goals and that the chief financial officer (CFO) is coming in later this
week to address our poor performance. Using the main components of the behavioral
leadership approach, describe what style your leader is using and what style she may
use after the CFO meeting.
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