My leader helped me advance my career by giving me additional opportunities to learn
and expand my skills. He is using which characteristic of a servant leader?
a. Stewardship
b. Building community
c. Commitment to the growth of people
d. Awareness
At the post-conventional morality level, individuals have developed their own sets of
personal ethics and morals that guide their behavior. Which stages are in the
post-conventional level?
a. Maintaining the social order
b. Interpersonal accord and conformity
c. Social contract and individual rights
d. Universal principles
_______ presented an alternative transformational perspective that included modeling
the way, challenging the process, and encouraging the heart.
a. Bennis and Nanus
b. Graen and Uhl-Bien
c. MacGregor Burns
d. Kouzes and Posner
McGrath describes diagnosing group deficiencies as part of
a. Monitoring/internal.
b. Executive action/internal.
c. Monitoring/external.
d. Executive action/external.
Which of the following are strengths of leadership ethics?
a. It is timely, providing research when we need it most
b. Ethical research is not part of leadership research
c. Ethics is central to the leadership process
d. It does not have strong research support
Zhu et al. tried to describe the transformational concept of “moral uplifting” and found
a. True transformational leadership negatively effects followers’ moral emotions
b. True transformational leadership positively effects followers’ moral emotions
c. True transformational leadership positively effects followers’ moral actions
d. True transformational leadership negatively effects followers’ moral actions
The Kets de Vries Neurotic Organization Study created a new framework for analysis of
organizations proposing that
a. Organizations have their own set of psychological neuroses
b. Followers set the psychological structure of organizations
c. Neuroses of a top leader can be recreated throughout the organization
d. Social dreaming is a way of defining meaning for the organization
The LBDQ was created by the researchers at the University of Michigan.
a. True
b. False
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
In the toxic triangle, the followers are
a. Conformers
b. Colluders
c. Constructivists
d. Conscientious
The key concepts of the psychodynamic approach all look at hidden dynamics of
organizations in order to decipher the motives for why people behave the way they do.
a. True
b. False
Technical skills grow in importance as one moves up the managerial hierarchy.
a. True
b. False
Some positive communication behaviors that account for successful leader emergence
are
a. Sense of humor, facial expressiveness.
b. Being dominant, speaking frequently.
c. Differentiating oneself from the group, challenging group norms.
d. Being informed, initiating new ideas.
Path-goal theory is similar to the situational approach in that
a. Path-goal does not suggest leaders should be flexible
b. Path-goal does not take followers into consideration
c. Path-goal requires leaders to adapt to followers’ needs
d. Path-goal and situational both take the work setting into account
The team leadership model puts who or what in the driver’s seat of team effectiveness?
a. Leaders
b. Leadership
c. Management
d. Team members
Ray is the leader of a non-profit organization that supports education for underserved
populations in your community. You volunteer regularly with this organization and see
Ray almost every day you are volunteering. Yesterday Ray asked you to take on a lead
volunteer role, stating that your commitment to the organization and interaction with
Ray have shown him he can count on you. You agree to step into this lead volunteer
role. You and Ray have just entered which phase of leadership making?
a. Mature partnership phase
b. Acquaintance phase
c. Scripted partnership phase
d. Stranger phase