Follower receptivity is an outcome of servant leadership.
a. True
b. False
Performance outcome is measured by
a. Standard external criteria
b. Original solutions to problems
c. Solutions that go beyond given information.
d. Follower reaction to leader behavior.
e. Leaders own perspective.
You have been employed at your organization for some time and are starting to gain the
necessary skills associated with your position but have trouble staying as motivated as
you used to be. According to the situational model, your level of development is
a. S4
b. D2
c. S1
d. S2
There is just one person in our group, Silvia, who seems to have radically different
ideas about how to complete our project. She seems to purposely disagree with the
majority opinions of the rest of us though yesterday she said something that made a lot
of sense to help us solve our production problem. I suggested to the entire group today
that we hear Silvia’s suggestions and asked Silvia to share in-depth more of what she
said yesterday. I am using which adaptive leader behavior?
a. Protect leadership voices from below
b. Regulate distress
c. Give the work back to the people
d. Maintain disciplined attention
Liden’s servant leadership model is “trait-like” in that
a. Leader behaviors are identified
b. Leader attributes are part of the antecedent conditions
c. Humility is a consistent servant leadership factor
d. Identifying leader traits is an outcome of servant leadership
Which of the following is not a task-focused leader behavior?
a. Initiating structure
b. Production orientation
c. Consideration
d. Facilitating goal accomplishment
The lack of high-speed Internet access in a company is an external environmental
influence
that can affect leadership outcomes.
a. True
b. False
The behavioral approach works by telling leaders how to behave.
a. True
b. False
The individual attributes factor in the skills model suggests
a. That complex problem-solving is not difficult.
b. That traits are not important to leadership.
c. That the skills model is not just a competency-based model.
d. Motivation plays little to no role within the model.
e. Personality influence is minimal.
In LMX theory, leadership making suggests that leaders help everyone to be in the
in-group.
a. True
b. False
What are the characteristics of the four levels of follower development in the SLII®
model? How would you characterize the development level of the students in this class?
Give evidence to support your view.
Explain the relationship between transformational, transactional, and charismatic
leadership.
Both the directive and supportive leader behaviors in the path-goal approach are quite
similar to the leader behaviors of the same name in the situational approach.
Participative and achievement-oriented behaviors are different from the other two
behaviors in situational approach (coaching and delegating). Compare and contrast
these four behaviors using your knowledge of both the situational approach and
path-goal approach.
Why should men be concerned about the labyrinth of women’s leadership?
Defend or refute: Men and women are equally likely to emerge as leaders in mixed-sex
groups.
Explain the process of how servant leadership works.
What is the relationship between LMX and employee empowerment?
How can a leader’s style affect a follower’s motivation?
Defend or refute: Authentic leadership and ethical leadership are basically the same.