The process toward which adaptive leaders direct their work defines
a. Technical work
b. Creative work
c. The holding environment
d. Adaptive work
You have been working at your job for over a year. Your boss starts offering you new
assignments with weekly meetings in order to exchange valuable information regarding
the tasks. According to the LMX theory, you are now in a _____ role.
a. Tested
b. Low-quality
c. Scripted
d. Negotiated
With technical challenges, the leader should
a. Use authority and expertise to address it
b. Use authority to make people solve it
c. Use the rules of the organization to solve it
d. Use followers to do the menial work
The Full Range Model of Transformational Leadership contains how many factors?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 4
d. 7
Characteristics of team effectiveness include all of the following except
a. Unified commitment.
b. Relationship-driven structure.
c. External support.
d. Collaborative climate.
An altruistic leader acts so as to create the greatest good for herself or himself.
a. True
b. False
Purposely choosing to give a civil rights speech in a location that is symbolic of past
civil rights successful actions is an example of a leader using what transformational
factor?
a. Intellectual stimulation
b. Contingent reward
c. Inspirational motivation
d. Management by exception-active
Out-group members
a. Act differently than in-group members
b. Operate outside of their job descriptions
c. Have better relationships with their leaders
d. Are treated unfairly by their leaders
The two sides of narcissism are
a. Constructive and destructive
b. Reactive and destructive
c. Reactive and dependent
d. Constructive and reactive
Team goals need to be very clear.
a. True
b. False
Which is an antecedent condition?
a. Leadership outcomes
b. Conceptualization
c. Follower receptivity
d. Putting followers first
Only leaders at the top level of an organization can effectively apply task and
relationship behaviors.
a. True
b. False
When studying ethics and leadership, ethical theories fall into which two broad
domains?
a. Conduct and behavior
b. Behavior and traits
c. Character and conduct
d. Character and traits
The study of theoretical formulations of leadership ethics
a. Has existed for centuries
b. Is described by Kohlberg
c. Is a new topic of scholarly research
d. Was started by Greek philosophers
Globalization has created a need to understand how cultural differences affect
leadership performance.
a. True
b. False
Before the inception of the style approach, leadership was treated exclusively as a(n)
a. Personality trait
b. Sets of skills
c. Process
d. Ability
e. Relationship
According to team leadership theory, individuals other than the formal leader can
perform the critical leadership functions.
a. True
b. False
In the skills model, which of these is a general cognitive ability?
a. Knowledge
b. Information processing
c. Motivation
d. Intellectual ability acquired over time
e. Problem-solving skills
Problems that lack clarity and cannot be solved by leader expertise or normal ways of
doing things in the organization are technical challenges.
a. True
b. False