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Chapter 4: Attending to Task and Relationships
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. The essence of leadership behaviors has two dimensions: ______ and ______.
a. leaders; followers
b. task; relationships
c. strengths; weaknesses
d. realized strengths; unrealized strengths
2. Our personal styles on task and relationship are influenced by ______.
a. past experiences
b. current context
c. who we are as people
d. all of these
3. Task-oriented people are ______.
a. goal-oriented
b. people-oriented
c. democratic leaders
d. people-oriented and democratic leaders
4. According to Rohrlich attending to ______ gives people a sense of control and self-
mastery.
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a. relationships
b. tasks
c. strengths
d. schedules
5. Your college roommate labels each of their binders and notebooks, color codes their
planner, and has several to-do lists for different aspects of life. Your roommate is
exhibiting strong ______.
a. strengths orientation
b. relationship orientation
c. task orientation
d. lassiez-faire style
6. According to the author, relationship leadership behavior is about all of the following
except ______.
a. treating followers with dignity and respect
b. assisting the group in reaching its goals
c. building relationships and helping people get along
d. making the work setting a pleasant environment
7. Within an organization, relationship leadership and concern for people includes all of
the following except ______.
a. providing good working conditions
b. maintaining a fair salary structure
c. promoting good social relations
d. valuing employees’ uniqueness
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8. Concern for production includes all of the following except ______.
a. policy decisions
b. new product development
c. workload sales volume
d. building camaraderie
9. The aspect of relationship leadership which includes building camaraderie, respect,
trust, and regard between leaders and followers is ______.
a. consideration behavior
b. employee orientation
c. concern for people
d. concern for production
10. A manager initiates one-on-one meetings to get to know their subordinates better
and dedicates a portion of each meeting to knowing what their employees are like in
their personal lives and needs, and what makes them unique. They are exhibiting
relationship leadership through ______.
a. consideration behavior
b. employee orientation
c. concern for people
d. production orientation
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11. When a leader organizes work, defines roles and responsibilities, and schedules
work activities, they are ______.
a. orienting workers to production means
b. initiating structure
c. showing concern for production
d. teambuilding
12. The unique habits regarding work and play that have been ingrained in us over
many years is known as ______.
a. personal styles
b. interpersonal styles
c. collective styles
d. strengths orientation
13. A commonality among task leadership behaviors is ______.
a. making everyone feels comfortable in the workplace
b. building camaraderie among followers
c. influencing people towards goal achievement
d. increasing profitability
14. A new co-worker makes sure to stop by and chat with each person at the start of the
day and greatly values working with others on projects. This person appears to have a
high _____ orientation.
a. task
b. relationship
c. strengths
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d. task and strengths
15. A master glass blower who focuses on his workers’ production quality, training,
technical skill and development of new and interesting designs is attending to which
label of task leadership?
a. Initiating structure
b. Production orientation
c. Concern for production
d. Employee orientation
16. ______ behavior is essential to each person’s effective leadership performance.
a. Task-oriented
b. Integrity-oriented
c. Structure-oriented
d. Trait-oriented
17. Relationship leadership behaviors help subordinates feel comfortable with ______.
a. themselves
b. their co-workers
c. different situations
d. all of these
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18. Change behaviors include ______.
a. visioning
b. team building
c. risk taking
d. visioning and risk taking
19. The most effective leaders recognize and adapt to ______.
a. follower’s needs
b. market conditions
c. their own desires
d. learned behaviors
20. Leaders should exhibit task orientation when followers ______.
a. need affiliation
b. are not comfortable with the group
c. are confused and directionless
d. need affiliation and are not comfortable with the group
21. Leaders should exhibit relationship orientation when followers ______.
a. are unclear on goals
b. need attachment to the group
c. are lost
d. have ill-defined roles
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22. A supervisor who was only concerned with the work getting done on time without
paying attention to employee’s concerns is ______.
a. production orientation
b. employee orientation
c. consideration behavior approach
d. none of these
23. A focus on employee needs and concerns would be consistent with what?
a. Production orientation
b. Employee orientation
c. Consideration behavior
d. Employee orientation and consideration behavior
24. I much prefer “being” rather than “doing.” I am not an organized, goal-oriented
person. I probably am a ______.
a. task-oriented leader
b. production-oriented leader
c. relationship-oriented leader
d. poor leader
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25. Matt likes things to be in order. On every Saturday, Matt goes grocery shopping,
does the laundry, and cleans his house, all by 11:00 am. Matt is probably ______.
a. production-oriented
b. employee-oriented
c. task-oriented
d. production-oriented and task-oriented
26. Your boss is continually talking to you about the technical aspects of your job and
how to do them properly. She is probably taking a(n) ______.
a. production orientation
b. employee orientation
c. consideration behavior approach
d. none of these
27. When would be an appropriate time to use more of a task-oriented leadership style?
a. You have an experienced team
b. Your team is immature
c. Your team is confused about the task
d. Your team is immature and confused about the task
28. According to Stogdill ______ includes building camaraderie, trust, respect, and
liking between leaders and followers.
a. task orientation
b. consideration behavior
c. production orientation
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d. intimating structure
29. At its core, relationship orientation is about what?
a. Treating followers with dignity and respect
b. Making the work setting a pleasant place to be
c. Building relationships and helping people get along
d. All of these
30. According to research, which of the following is not a behavior found to be part of
consideration behavior?
a. Camaraderie
b. Trust
c. Organization
d. Mutual regard
31. A supervisor who was concerned with building trust, providing good working
conditions, and maintaining a fair salary structure would be exhibiting ______.
a. concern for people
b. production orientation
c. naïveté
d. all of these
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32. Defining roles, organizing work, and scheduling work activities would be consistent
with ______.
a. initiating structure
b. overcompensation
c. employee orientation
d. all of these
33. Employee orientation involves all of the following except ______.
a. valuing worker’s uniqueness
b. giving special attention to worker’s needs
c. helping workers reach their production goals
d. taking an interest in workers as human beings
34. A focus on quality control initiatives would be consistent with what?
a. Employee orientation
b. Production orientation
c. Relationship leadership
d. Positive attitude
35. According to the text, what affects the balance of task to relationship oriented
leadership behaviors that one employs?
a. Personal style
b. Personal traits
c. Genetic predisposition
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d. All of these
36. In which of the following ways has relationship-oriented leadership been
characterized?
a. Consideration behavior
b. Concerned for people
c. Employee orientation
d. All of these
37. A teacher having each student introduce themselves to every other student in the
class is an example of primarily what?
a. Production orientation
b. Task leadership
c. Initiating structure
d. Relationship leadership
38. Which type of leadership is critically important in a company with a large number of
newly hired employees who are not accustomed to their roles and responsibilities?
a. Democratic leadership
b. Task leadership
c. Laissez-faire leadership
d. Relationship leadership