Which viewpoint defines authentic leadership as a reciprocal process?
a. Intrapersonal
b. Interpersonal
c. Developmental
d. Fundamental
The highly committed follower who just has not figured out how to do his job benefits
from
a. A leader who provides a high level of support
b. A leader who directs tasks carefully
c. A leader who stays out of the day-to-day tasks and provides low levels of support
d. A leader who is both a cheerleader and authoritarian
Which of the following is a communal characteristic?
a. Sensitivity
b. Confidence
c. Assertiveness
d. Rationality
When a leader uses skills to improve the task performance effectiveness of the team he
is using
a. Environmental leadership monitoring processes
b. External leadership action processes
c. Internal relational leadership actions
d. Internal task leadership actions
_____________ is one of Northouse’s five major leadership traits focused on a leader’s
inclination to seek out pleasant social relationships.
a. Surgency
b. Agreeableness
c. Extraversion
d. Sociability
You are told you need to work weekends. Your supervisor gives you a pay raise in
return.
What type of power is your supervisor using?
a. Referent
b. Expert
c. Legitimate
d. Reward
e. Coercive
Jamal enjoys interacting with the team members he supervises. He is employing
a. Task behaviors
b. Process behaviors
c. Directing behaviors
d. Relationship behaviors
I am a leader who watches my staff carefully and stops them immediately when they
make a mistake. I am using
a. Management by exception-passive
b. Management by exception-active
c. Intellectual stimulation
d. Contingent reward
Environmental influences directly contribute to which of the other components of
Mumford et. al’s skills model?
a. Competencies
b. Leadership outcomes
c. Career experiences
d. Individual attributes
Inspirational motivation is one of the factors in the transformational leadership model.
a. True
b. False
Which of Larson & LaFasto’s characteristics of team excellence is associated with
Hackman’s “team focused coaching”?
a. Compelling purpose
b. Principled leadership
c. Standards of excellence
d. Competent team members
One clinical paradigm premise is that much of mental life lies outside of our conscious
awareness.
a. True
b. False
In the SLII® model, leaders evaluate how __________ and _________ followers are to
perform a task.
a. Intentional and committed
b. Motivated and determined
c. Competent and committed
d. Focused and intelligent
Which premise requires “tective” work to find clues to explain perplexing behavior?
a. Mental life lies outside of conscious awareness
b. Human development is an intra- and interpersonal process
c. There is rationale behind every act
d. How we regulate and express emotions is central to a person’s identity
The term “follower” in adaptive leadership is mostly used only when discussing the
“holding environment.”
a. True
b. False
The Nordic Europe leadership profile places low importance on which two global
leadership behaviors?
a. Participative and Self-protective
b. Autonomous and Charismatic/value-based
c. Self-protective and Participative
d. Humane-oriented and Self-protective
The systems perspective in adaptive leadership involves looking at problems that
a. Require people to adapt to both their internal cues and external environments
b. Are complicated, complex, and dynamic that can evolve and change
c. Require service through using expertise in diagnosing and prescribing solutions
d. Are focused on psychological parameters for adapting to difficult problems
In his early studies, Stogdill found that leaders in one situation would almost always be
leaders in another situation.
a. True
b. False
What makes it difficult to use the term transformational leadership when referencing
leaders such as Saddam Hussein and Adolf Hitler?
a. Transformational leadership focuses on the leader’s own interests.
b. Hussein and Hitler had no redeeming qualities.
c. Transformational leadership is effective; Hussein and Hitler’s leadership styles were
not.
d. Transformational leadership includes transforming, but only in a positive way.