Jasmine understands the complexities of all levels of her organization and successfully
solves problems that meet the organization’s mission. She is using which servant leader
behavior?
a. Conceptualizing
b. Behaving ethically
c. Putting followers first
d. Empowering
Taking a trait assessment can help people
a. Gain insight about their own traits
b. Pinpoint their weaknesses
c. Recognize potential traits to develop
d. Manipulate others to gain a higher standing in their organization
Teleological theories include all of the following except
a. Ethical egoism
b. Utilitarianism
c. Altruism
d. Ethical egalitarianism
When leaders use good communication skills to understand and acknowledge followers’
viewpoints they are using which characteristic of a servant leader?
a. Healing
b. Listening
c. Persuasion
d. Conceptualization
Studies have shown that men are less effective than women when they supervise a
higher proportion of male subordinates.
a. True
b. False
Individual leader attributes can affect the leaders skills, but it is the _____ themselves
that are most important in addressing organizational problems.
a. Traits
b. Behaviors
c. Skills
d. Followers
Which is not a characteristic a leader would demonstrate using George’s approach to
authentic leadership?
a. Understanding purpose
b. Establishing trusting relationships
c. Moral reasoning
d. Passionate about mission
The toxic triangle by Padilla et al. describes the interrelationships between
a. Destructive leaders, susceptible followers, and conducive environments
b. Destructive leaders, conforming followers, and stable environments
c. Conforming leaders, destructive followers, and unstable environments
d. Colluding followers, destructive leaders, and stable environments
In adaptive leadership, leaders and followers mutually affect each other, making
leadership a complex interactive process. This is
a. A criticism of adaptive leadership
b. A strength of adaptive leadership
c. The formal definition of adaptive leadership
d. The definition of a technical leadership problem
The situational approach labels leaders’ styles specifically as
a. Initiating structure and consideration
b. High task and low task
c. Task and relationship
d. Directive and supportive
In my organization, women and men share power and influence equally. My
organization uses a high degree of which dimension of culture?
a. Power distance
b. Humane orientation
c. Institutional collectivism
d. Gender egalitarianism
Which regulating distress behavior maintains that it is the leader’s responsibility to
manage the rate of adaptive change for people?
a. Providing direction
b. Conflict management
c. Protection
d. Orientation
The acronym VDL stands for variation dependent leadership.
a. True
b. False
Team leadership research started focusing on more than just outcomes in the
a. 1990s.
b. 1960s.
c. 1980s.
d. 1970s.
Relationship behaviors
a. Facilitate goal accomplishment
b. Focus on personal advantage for the leader
c. Help group members feel comfortable with one another
d. Provide structure
Giving an employee a merit-based pay raise is an example of
a. Respect.
b. Service.
c. Distributive justice.
d. Altruism.
Which personality characteristic of charismatic leadership is also a leadership trait?
a. Dominance
b. Self-confidence
c. Morality
d. Influential
Studies have shown that high LMX has a direct impact on employee creativity.
a. True
b. False
A major criticism of the trait approach is
a. It’s intuitive appeal
b. There is no definitive list of leadership traits
c. It highlights the leader component in the leadership process
d. Research on leadership traits is fairly new