People in the organization like me because I know what I am doing and share
knowledge with followers. I have
a. Position power
b. Personal power
c. Information power
d. Legitimate power
e. Reward power
Research and writing about adaptive leadership has been primarily
a. Anecdotal and observational
b. Descriptive
c. Prescriptive
d. Scientifically based
A leader who has intermediate concern for both tasks and relationships is displaying
a. Country club behaviors
b. Authority compliance behaviors
c. Middle-of-the-road behaviors
d. Team behaviors
e. Impoverished behaviors
Greenleaf advocated
a. How organizations can influence leaders to rally followers
b. Using communication to build consensus in groups
c. Using power and authority to influence followers
d. Ethics are poor in modern for-profit organizations
The GLOBE researchers published data on regional cultural clusters that included how
many different countries?
a. 10
b. 32
c. 62
d. 107
The Full Range Model of Transformational Leadership contains how many
transformational leadership factors?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 4
d. 7
The dynamics of human behavior are easy to understand.
a. True
b. False
The history of the psychodynamic approach provides context for the study of leadership
by
a. Empirically testing emotional responses to follower actions
b. Providing a chronology of the dynamics and functioning of leaders and organizations
c. Informing leaders about their psychological dysfunctions
d. Studying in the chronology of wartime abuses of power
Which premise of the clinical paradigm states that our early caregivers and other
developmental experiences influence us throughout life?
a. Mental life lies outside of conscious awareness
b. Human development is an intra- and interpersonal process
c. There is rationale behind every act
d. How we regulate and express emotions is central to a person’s identity
You are the executive director of the local animal humane society. A staff member you
supervise has been working at the society for about one year. At the annual performance
evaluation review, you share that you are pleased to see the employee has mastered both
the basic and more difficult tasks of the job. You notice, however, that this employee
still lacks the confidence and motivation to take on new tasks. Based on the Situational
Leadership® Approach, which leadership style should you exhibit?
a. Delegating
b. Supporting
c. Coaching
d. Directing
External environmental actions include
a. Coaching
b. Structuring for results
c. Modeling principles
d. Advocating
Which of the Big Five personality factors is also one of the five major traits identified
in the text?
a. Extraversion
b. Determination
c. Conscientiousness
d. Self-confidence
e. Intelligence
When some leaders encourage the fight-flight assumption and use in-group/out-group
division for motivation and to reinforce the group’s identity they are misrepresenting the
main premise of which leadership approach?
a. Situational
b. Behavioral
c. Trait
d. LMX
Some competence but low commitment
a. D1
b. D2
c. S2
d. S1
In path-goal theory, the main components are ______, ______, and ________.
a. Leader style, follower characteristics, work setting
b. Supportive leadership, directive leadership, participative leadership
c. Follower characteristics, task characteristics, supportive leadership
d. Leadership, followers, task
62. Which of the following scholars argued that followers want to have an open,
trusting relationship with their leaders, and will then give them greater loyalty and
commitment?
a. Terry
b. George
c. Walumbwa et al.
d. Luthans and Avolio
Which researcher(s) have been involved with describing servant leadership?
a. Greenleaf and Spears
b. Kouzes and Posner
c. Bass and Avolio
d. Liden et al. and Spears
People like leaders to provide some direction and structure to their work but also want
to solve problems without too much directive leadership. Leaders should use which
adaptive behavior with these people?
a. Identify adaptive challenges
b. Regulate distress
c. Give the work back to the people
d. Maintain disciplined attention