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51. Which of the components on Blake & Mouton’s Leadership Grid has high concern for both
interpersonal relationships and task accomplishment?
a. Authority compliance
b. Country club
c. Impoverished
d. Middle of the road
e. Team
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?
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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 employing
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
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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 theory?
a. Behavioral
b. Leader-member exchange
c. Situational
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
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interacting with; Jennifer just can pick out when she uses these two different styles. Jennifer’s
leader is using
a. Situational leadership
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
e. Impoverished 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
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65. Which of the following is a strength of the behavioral approach?
a. The research supports how leader behaviors affect performance outcomes
b. The research found the high-high style to be the most effective
c. The 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. Leader-member exchange
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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 task and relationship behaviors are on two separate continua
d. How opportunism as a behavior style focuses on followers roles
Multiple Selection
71. Relationship behaviors
a. Facilitate goal accomplishment
b. Focus on personal advantage for the leader
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c. Help group members feel comfortable with one another
d. Encourage leader-follower interactions
72. The central purpose(s) of the behavioral approach is
a. To describe how leaders combine two types of behaviors
b. To explain how task and relationship behaviors influence followers
c. To assess how leader traits influence followers
d. To explain leader competencies
73. Which study viewed task and relationship behaviors as independent and on two different
continua?
a. Ohio State studies
b. Michigan studies
c. Blake and Mouton
d. Stogdill and Zacaro
74. The LBDQ used today was originally constructed from a
a. List of 1,800 items
b. A 150-item questionnaire
c. A set of questions answered by small groups
d. Focus group data
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75. Relationship behaviors include
a. Consideration
b. Results orientation
c. Employee orientation
d. Production orientation
76. Task behaviors include
a. Consideration
b. Initiating structure
c. Employee oriented
d. Results oriented
77. Which of the following are strengths of the behavioral approach?
a. It is heuristic
b. The universal style of team leadership is best
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 are criticisms of the behavioral approach?
a. No universal style has been found to work in all situations
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
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79. The LBDQ identified which core leadership behaviors?
a. Team
b. Country club
c. Initiating structure
d. Consideration
True/False
80. Creating a timeline for subordinates to follow is a relationship leader behavior.
a. True
b. False
81. Assisting group members in building cohesiveness is primarily a task behavior.
a. True
b. False
82. The impoverished leader behavior is an example of uninvolved leadership.
a. True
b. False
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83. 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.
a. True
b. False
84. The behavioral approach has been validated by a wide range of studies.
a. True
b. False
85. The style approach is not heuristic.
a. True
b. False
86. Assisting group members in building cohesiveness is primarily a task behavior.
a. True
b. False
87. The behavioral approach suggests that leadership cannot be explained by any list of
personality traits.
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a. True
b. False
88. According to Blake and Mouton, the “authority compliance manager” is highly concerned
with people and has little concern for results.
a. True
b. False
89. The style approach has failed to identify a universally effective leadership style.
a. True
b. False
90. In the Leadership Grid, the 9, 9 type of leader prefers the middle ground and swallows
convictions in the interest of progress.
a. True
b. False
91. 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.”
a. True
b. False
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92. According to the Leadership Grid, opportunistic leaders rely primarily on the 5, 5 style of
leadership.
a. True
b. False
93. The leader behavior categories in the behavioral approach are called directive and supportive.
a. True
b. False
94. The LBDQ was created by the researchers at the University of Michigan.
a. True
b. False
95. Only leaders at the top level of an organization can effectively apply task and relationship
behaviors.
a. True
b. False
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96. The behavioral approach is used in many training and development programs.
a. True
b. False
97. The behavioral approach is not describing what leaders do but who leaders are.
a. True
b. False
98. 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.
a. True
b. False
99. Research in behavioral style has not supported a universal high-high leadership style that is
most effective in all situations.
a. True
b. False
100. The behavioral approach works by telling leaders how to behave.
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a. True
b. False
Essay
101. Which leadership style would be most difficult to change?
102. Defend or refute: Opportunistic leadership can be justified in certain situations.
103. 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?
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104. 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?
105. 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 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.