I am a leader who carefully watches the complexity of the situation and takes
appropriate actions. I am using
a. Requisite variety
b. Mental modeling
c. Environmental actions
d. Social modeling
For servant leadership to be successful
a. Followers need to be open to this type of leadership
b. Followers need to become servants themselves
c. Followers must share all antecedent conditions
d. Followers must have an altruistic philosophy toward work
Transformational leadership
a. Tells leaders how to act
b. Tells followers how to act
c. Gives four specific actions leaders should use in multiple situations
d. Provides a general way of thinking about leadership, including follower needs
Each day of the week you meet with your direct supervisor and your coworkers for a
morning meeting. The meeting is open-forum and issues, goals, topics, and ideas are all
discussed at the meeting, during which the supervisor responds when able and asks for
feedback often. This is an example of
a. Authority compliance management
b. Team management
c. Country club management
d. Middle-of-the-road management
e. Impoverished management
Which of these statements about the skills approach is false?
a. Describes leadership as something that is available to everyone
b. It is applicable to leaders at all levels within the organization
c. It clearly predicts how variations in social judgment and problem-solving skills affect
performance
d. Knowledge about and ability to work with people is important in this approach
Training and development programs using the cultural behaviors, dimensions, and
clusters from the GLOBE studies could focus on all except which of the following
topics to help leaders be more effective in working with others from different cultures?
a. Teaching cultural sensitivity
b. Helping individuals understand their own cultural biases
c. New employee orientation programs
d. Present stereotypical behaviors from multiple cultures
Because of the lack of research studies associated with Situational Leadership®, there
are questions concerning its theoretical basis. Which of the following is not one of these
questions?
a. Is it certain that this approach does indeed improve performance?
b. Can we be sure it is a valid approach?
c. Why are there limited doctoral dissertations done on the situational approach?
d. Why has there been a lack of published research findings?
The existence of different cultures or ethnicities within a group or organization is the
definition of
a. Multicultural
b. Ethnocentrism
c. Diversity
d. Prejudice
Hofstede’s five dimensions on which culture differs include all of the following except
a. Uncertainty avoidance
b. Masculinity-femininity
c. Performance orientation
d. Long-term-short-term orientation
Which researcher (s) conceptualized motivation from the perspective of the expectancy
theory of motivation?
a. Kotter and Bennis
b. Vroom
c. Hersey and Blanchard
d. House
When my leader shows she cares about my personal well-being she is using which
characteristic of a servant leader?
a. Awareness
b. Listening
c. Healing
d. Conceptualization
The trait approach determines the most important traits in a highly objective way.
a. True
b. False
An unconscious assumption whereby people join with a group or another person who is
seen as powerful and will help them cope with anxiety is called
a. Fight-flight
b. Dependency
c. Pairing
d. Power sharing
16. According to House, the following is not one of the specific types of behaviors
commonly exhibited by charismatic leaders:
a. Serving as a strong role model.
b. Giving structure to complex tasks.
c. Articulating ideological goals with moral overtones.
d. Arousing emotions.
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
Kathleen regularly meets with and coaches each of her followers in hopes to help them
reach their full potential. With some she is directive and with others she provides strong
affiliation. She is using
a. Transactional leadership
b. Situational leadership
c. Transformational leadership
d. Path-goal leadership