Supportive behaviors help group members by
a. Setting time lines
b. Giving directions
c. Asking for input
d. Solving problems
Leaders who are friendly and approachable are using
a. Directive behaviors
b. Achievement behaviors
c. Supportive behaviors
d. Participative behaviors
Men earn more master’s degrees than women.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following scholars presented an alternative transformational perspective
that describes five exemplary practices of leadership?
a. Bennis and Nanus
b. Graen and Uhl-Bien
c. MacGregor Burns
d. Kouzes and Posner
Adaptive leadership stresses the activities of the leader as they relate to the followers
and the context in which the work is done.
a. True
b. False
I am a leader of a team of eight employees. In LMX, what is the maximum number of
groups this team could be categorized into based on vertical dyadic relationships?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 8
Women could still be perceived as warm and as leaders with high-level potential by
a. Combining transactional and servant leadership styles
b. Combining agentic and communal characteristics
c. Using authoritative and achievement leader behaviors
d. Using transformational leadership behaviors
Participative leadership is effective with subordinates who have a strong need to control
(internal locus of control).
a. True
b. False
According to path-goal theory, when jobs are very complex, supportive leadership
should be provided.
a. True
b. False
Transformational leadership’s view of ethics is really the same as that of the other
approaches to leadership.
a. True
b. False
I prefer to use a low level of supportive leader behaviors and high directive behaviors
with all of my followers. Which of my followers will benefit most from my use of these
behaviors?
a. D1
b. D2
c. D3
d. D4
According to George’s authentic leadership model, strong relationships with followers
lead to compassion for those in need.
a. True
b. False
Under what conditions does servant leadership fail to have a positive impact on
followers?
a. When subordinates are unskilled or uneducated.
b. When the organization rewards coercive leader behavior.
c. When subordinates already exhibit a high level of organizational citizenship behavior.
d. When subordinates don’t want guidance from the leader.
Of the Big Five personality factors, which is the most strongly associated with
leadership?
a. Openness
b. Neuroticism
c. Social status
d. Extraversion
The study of the usefulness of the psychodynamic approach in studying leadership in
organizational structures is quite different from the way leadership is studied and
recommendations for leadership development that address more observable, conscious,
and rational phenomena. Describe how the concepts of the psychodynamic approach
specifically look at different components of leadership when compared to leadership
theories focused on the behaviors of leaders.
Arif is the leader of a small group of human resources professionals. Two of these staff
members, Nina and Bohan, disagree about the leadership traits that Arif displays in their
work situation. This disagreement described which of the main criticisms of the trait
approach?
a. High subjectivity
b. Century of research
c. Lack of leadership emergence
d. Usefulness in training and development
Robert House, the lead researcher in the GLOBE study project is the same House that
developed the Charismatic Transformational leadership theory.
a. True
b. False
Each week your supervisor holds a meeting in which he invites you and all the other
employees to give feedback regarding current projects. According to path-goal theory,
which behavior best describes your supervisor?
a. Supportive
b. Directive
c. Participative
d. Achievement oriented