Managing up involves:
a. giving advice on handling specific organizational situations and dealing with
organizational politics.
b. directing and controlling behavior and judging individual performance.
c. telling a person exactly what needs to be done.
d. consciously developing a mutually-respectful relationship with one’s direct superiors.
A__________is made up of members from different departments within an
organization.
a. functional team
b. special team
c. cross-functional team
d. self-directed team
Executive coaches:
a. help leaders develop emotional distance from their followers.
b. encourage leaders to confront their flaws that inhibit effective leadership.
c. intentionally value stability over change.
d. help people through the transition to an old paradigm of effective leadership.
When workers are not motivated to achieve organizational goals, the fault is often with
the workers themselves.
a. True
b. False
According to the path-goal theory of leadership, which of the following leadership
styles involves consulting with subordinates about decisions?
a. Directive leadership
b. Supportive leadership
c. Achievement-oriented leadership
d. Participative leadership
Andrew is the manager of a bank. Which of the following should he follow to be a good
leader?
a. He should always let his subordinates do the thinking for him.
b. He should not be apologetic to his subordinates.
c. He should not shift or expand his mental models.
d. He should not use the past as a weapon to control others.
Which of the following statements is true of the whole brain concept?
a. It proves that the concept of left-brained versus right-brained thinking is entirely
accurate physiologically.
b. It does not consider a person’s preference for right-brained versus left-brained
thinking.
c. It considers a person’s preference for conceptual versus experiential thinking.
d. It does not support the idea that everyone uses both left-brained and right-brained
thinking.
Which of the following is a traditional management role?
a. Helping followers understand and learn
b. Removing obstacles to growth
c. Telling followers what to do
d. Empowering followers to explore
The best leaders, at all levels, are those who are genuinely interested in other people
and find ways to bring out the best in them.
a. True
b. False
An important contribution ofFiedlet’s research on1he contingency model of leadership
is1hat it
a. uses weights which are determined in an arbitrary manner in order to determine
situation favorability.
b. goes beyond the notion of leadership styles to try to show how styles fit a situation.
c. recommends medium least preferred coworker leaders as they are more effective in
many situations.
d. is clear about how the model will work over time.
Open communication runs according to the traditional flow of selective information
downward from supervisors to1he subordinates.
a. True
b. False
Laurel, the manager of a software company, assumes that the male employees in his
organization are more creative and innovative than the female employees in his
organization. In the given scenario, Laurel’s assumption is known as
a. projection
b. attribution
c. perceptual defense
d. stereotyping
Personalized leaders are characterized as:
a. empowering.
b. egalitarian.
c. encouraging.
d. exploitative.
A(n) ________is something that awakens an individual’s hopes and dreams about the
future, about possibilities of what could be, rather than focusing on trying to “fix”
weaknesses or shortcomings.
a. intuitive thinking process
b. personal compact
c. after-action review
d. positive emotional attractor
Victoria, an advertising manager, works effectively when dealing with routine and
well-defmed tasks but she is not very good with tasks that require creativity. Hence, she
assumes that her subordinates also have difficulty being creative. In the given scenario,
Victoria’s assumption is an example of .
a. the halo effect
b. a self-serving bias
c. perceptual defense
d. projection
Rapidly changing technologies, globalization, and changing markets are some of the
environmental forces creating a greater need for change leadership within
organizations.
a. True
b. False
Describe the six fundamental transformations in today’s organizations and leaders and
provide examples.
Discuss cultural leadership.
______________is the extent to which members are attracted to the team and motivated
to remain in it.
Describe the characteristics of a virtual team.
means questioning assumptions and interpreting data and events according to one’s own
beliefs, ideas, and thinking.
Briefly describe the concept of a thriving workforce.
________is the mental and moral strength to engage in, persevere through, and
withstand danger, difficulty or fear.
Organizations driven by are marked by an emphasis on positive interpersonal
relationships.
refers to initiating a business venture, organizing the necessary resources, and assuming
the associated risks and rewards.