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Objective Quiz Questions Name
Section/Score
TRUE/FALSE
______ 1. Transformational leaders are primarily concerned with short– to medium-term
goals.
______ 2. Becoming an effective leader is an evolutionary rather than revolutionary process.
______ 3. Leadership is a reciprocal process that occurs between leaders and followers.
______ 4. The path-goal theory of leadership uses a contingency approach to leadership.
______ 5. Leadership and management are synonymous.
______ 6. Leader honesty is the single most important ingredient in the leader-follower
relationship.
______ 7. Integrity is one of the major traits of leadership.
______ 8. Of the many traits of leadership, cognitive ability is the easiest to develop.
______ 9. Two perspectives that look at the relationship between gender and leadership are
psychological and the situational.
______ 10. Men tend to describe their leadership as more transformational, women as more
transactional.
______ 11. Being a good manager means that one is also a good leader.
______ 12. The Theory X leader is more participative and the Theory Y leader is more
autocratic.
______ 13. Critics of behavioral theories argue the models are too simplistic.
______ 14. The situational leadership approach suggests that leaders should match their style
to followers’ readiness levels.
______ 15. The two dimensions of leadership identified in the Ohio State University studies
were consideration and initiating structure.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE
______ 1. According to Daft, all of the following are stages of leadership development
EXCEPT:
a. conscious incompetence
b. unconscious incompetence
c. conscious competence
d. none of the above—i.e., all are stages of leadership development
______ 2. Considering the contingency model developed by Fred Fiedler, very difficult
tasks ideally should be performed by:
a. a task leader
b. a relationship-motivated leader
c. both a and b above
d. none of the above
______ 3. The difference between leadership and management is:
a. managerial skills precede leadership skills
b. leadership focuses on doing things right, not on doing the right thing
c. leadership is focused on larger goals
d. there is no difference between leadership and management
______ 4. Emerging issues in leadership involve:
a. globalization
b. technology
c. changing workforce demographics
d. all of the above
______ 5. A task-oriented leader would be interested in all of the following EXCEPT:
a. getting the project done
b. being efficient
c. feedback from employees
d. challenge
______ 6. Managerial roles can be grouped into the following three categories:
a. conflicting, ambiguous, and distinct roles
b. formal, informal, and neutral roles
c. interpersonal, informational, and decisional roles
d. none of the above
______ 7. Transformational leaders:
a. are capable of effecting major changes in their organizations
b. change themselves according to what followers want from them
c. start as task-oriented and become relationship-oriented leaders
d. none of the above
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______ 8. The single most important characteristic in the leader-follower relationship is:
a. honesty
b. maturity
c. independence
d. none of the above
______ 9. Of the six most important traits for leaders:
a. all of them can be developed
b. none of them can be developed
c. all but one can be developed
d. only one can be developed
______ 10. In comparing men and women leaders, the situational perspective maintains that:
a. men and women differ in their approach to managerial jobs
b. behavioral differences are due more to power and status than gender
c. differences stem from socialization processes
d. none of the above
______ 11. According to Roesner, women tend to describe their leadership style as more:
a. transactional
b. transpersonal
c. transformational
d. none of the above
______ 12. Leadership behaviors focusing on task performance have been labeled:
a. job-centered
b. initiating structure
c. consideration
d. both a and b above
e. none of the above
______ 13. The path-goal approach to leadership asserts that:
a. leader behavior is not dependent on subordinate characteristics
b. nondirective leadership is best in ambiguous situations
c. participative leadership is more satisfying for ego-involving tasks
d. all of the above
e. none of the above
______ 14. Substitutes for leadership depend on characteristics of:
a. followers
b. the tasks being performed
c. the organization
d. all of the above
e. none of the above
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______ 15. Theory Y leaders:
a. tend to be more participative
b. use power acquired by their rank
c. are more authoritarian
d. all of the above
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Objective Quiz Answers
TRUE/FALSE MULTIPLE CHOICE