Servant leadership can enhance group performance by clarifying goals and increasing
team potency.
a. True
b. False
During the mature partnership phase of leadership making, the roles are
a. Scripted
b. Tested
c. Negotiated
d. Implied
Leadership decisions include all of the following except
a. Task or relational
b. Overt or covert
c. Monitor or take action
d. Internal or external
Transformational leaders are social architects because they
a. Create shared meanings for people within their organizations.
b. Maintain social relationships with individuals throughout the organization.
c. Develop social strategies and techniques.
d. Are strong, affable examples for their followers.
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
Who focused on leaders matching their styles to the competence and commitment of
employees?
a. Stogdill
b. Hersey and Blanchard
c. Blake and McCanse
d. Katz
A leader who compromises and avoids conflict around both task and relationship
interactions is displaying
a. Country club behaviors
b. Authority compliance behaviors
c. Middle-of-the-road behaviors
d. Team behaviors
e. Impoverished behaviors
A prerequisite for all of the other adaptive leader behaviors is to regulate distress.
a. True
b. False
Before LMX theory, researchers treated leadership as something
a. Leaders did toward all of their followers
b. Present within the individual actions of followers
c. Existing between the leader and each of his or her followers
d. As an exclusively two-way, one-dimensional form of communication
Stogdill’s later studies argued that personality and situational factors were both
determinants
of leadership.
a. True
b. False
Research on transformational leadership
a. Is no longer being conducted
b. Is relatively sparse in modern times
c. Is prolific in modern times
d. Is at least 30 years old
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. The result is that you and your boss are able to redefine your working
relationship and
find new ways of relating. According to the LMX theory, you are now in a _____ role.
a. Tested
b. Mixed
c. Scripted
d. Negotiated
A strength of the Situational Leadership® approach is
a. It is a useful model for training and development
b. It has prescriptive value
c. It emphasizes leader flexibility
d. It clearly describes how competence is combined with commitment to determine D
levels
Followers who have little skill for the task but are confident in getting the task done are
a. D1
b. D2
c. D3
d. D4
According to the Anglo culture cluster, the least desirable leader behavior is
a. Charismatic/value-based leadership.
b. Participative leadership.
c. Humane-oriented leadership.
d. Self-protective leadership.
There are how many leader behaviors in the adaptive model?
a. 2
b. 3
c. 4
d. 6
As a recent graduate from the top paper science program in the country, you quickly
receive a position with a large paper company and are given a high-salary position. You
are very nervous and feel that you need more experience or assistance to meet
organizational standards. According to the situational model, your level of development
is
a. S4
b. D2
c. S1
d. D4