As president of my student organization I have position power.
According to Burns, followers should remember that their leaders are above them and
act accordingly.
A person who is seen by their team as likeable and friendly possesses reward power.
Followers usually are responsible for maintaining the relationship with leaders.
Spiritual leadership is an emerging leadership approach.
The trait definition of leadership occurs through the interaction between leaders and
followers.
An individual perceived by other group members as influential can only be an assigned
leader, not an emergent one.
The earliest leadership theories in the 20th century emphasized control and
centralization of power.
Leadership scholars have agreed on a singular definition of leadership.
Kotter argues that managerial and leadership functions are really quite similar.
Leadership occurs in both large and small groups.
Using a process definition of leadership means it is available to everyone.
More than 60 different leadership classification systems have been developed.
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
Which of the six global leadership behaviors is focused on ensuring the safety and
security of the leader and the group?
a. Self-protective
b. Team-oriented
c. Participative
d. Humane-oriented
Environmental influences are factors in situations that lie outside the leader’s
competencies,
characteristics, and experiences.
a. True
b. False
How many archetypes are used in adaptive leadership to help determine the difference
between adaptive and technical challenges?
a. 2
b. 3
c. 4
d. 6
As the executive director of the local animal humane society, you work with several
employees who are at varying levels of experience in working with animal welfare
issues and with varying degrees of motivation to continue this important work. Using
Situational Leadership® concepts, you should
a. Adapt your style based on experience and skill level of the staff
b. Adapt your leadership style based on the motivation level of the staff
c. Demonstrate a high degree of flexibility in your style to each staff member
d. Demonstrate little flexibility in your style as you interact only with high-level staff
members
Which of the following would a leader not ask when determining the nature of the
situation?
a. What task are the followers being asked to perform?
b. How can I best alter the styles of the followers?
c. How complex is the task?
d. Are the followers sufficiently skilled to accomplish the task?
Emotional intelligence includes our ability to perceive and
a. Express emotions
b. Use emotions to facilitate thinking
c. Reason/understand emotions
d. Manage emotions within oneself
A student who practices the piano daily and tries new music despite the difficulty
demonstrates which trait?
a. Determination
b. Sociability
c. Integrity
d. Self-awareness
Levinson extended the work of and collaborated with the work at Menninger Clinic and
applied psychodynamic theory to management and leadership. He linked the failure of
managers to effectively contain anxieties of workers to
a. Low employee turnover
b. High employee turnover
c. Low employee production
d. Employee depression
Roles being tested in leadership-making means
a. The leader and follower have already tested their interactions and found them
satisfactory
b. The leader and follower are assessing desire for the follower to take on new
responsibilities
c. The leader and follower are focused on the rules of interaction
d. The leader and follower are comfortable depending on each other
Which of the following is not a personality characteristic of charismatic leadership?
a. Agreeable
b. Dominant
c. Strong moral values
d. Desire to influence
Implicit leadership theory states in part that individuals have implicit beliefs and
convictions about the attributes that distinguish leaders from nonleaders. This concept is
similar to the main concept of which leadership approach in the text?
a. Skills approach
b. Situational approach
c. Trait approach
d. Adaptive approach
Path-goal theory is based on motivation principles drawn from expectancy theory.
a. True
b. False
According to the GLOBE study, which of these is not a cultural dimension?
a. Institutional collectivism
b. In-group collectivism
c. Division of labor
d. Future orientation
Adaptive leadership incorporates ideas from four different viewpoints: systems
perspective, biological perspective, service orientation, and psychotherapy perspective.
Choose one of these perspectives and relate it to the main concepts in one theory found
in this text.
LMX theory assumes that improved exchanges between leaders and followers are
desirable. When might a follower not want €improved career-oriented social
exchanges€ with a leader?
How does management of virtual teams differ from face-to-face teams? Do all parts of
the team leadership model apply as well to virtual teams?
While ethical behavior is important for everyone in an organization, why is it especially
important for leaders?
Plan a way for two countries that differ on future orientation (one with a high score, the
other with a low score) to negotiate an agreement on environmental protection.
A basic assumption of the SLII® is that employees’ skills and motivation vary over
time. Do you agree? Can you think of any exceptions? Does the SLII® fit all work
situations equally well?
What happens in the holding environment of adaptive leadership?
Why might some subordinates not want to work with servant leaders?
If authentic leaders “understand their own values, place followers’ needs above their
own, and work with followers to align their interests in order to create a greater
common good,” how is this leadership?
Is it possible for a narcissistic leader to acquire emotional intelligence?