Pat Smith is personnel director for a large bank. Her major goal is to find a person who
can
adapt his or her leadership to different types of people and situations. Pat is basing her
selections
on
a. The great person approach
b. The trait approach
c. The skills approach
d. Leader emergence theory
e. Crystallized cognitive ability
During the acquaintance phase of leadership making, the exchanges are
a. Low quality
b. Medium quality
c. Moderately high quality
d. High quality
My health care insurance company puts small co-payment fees on drugs that many
people use and much higher fees for experimental drugs that only rarely are needed by
individuals on our health care insurance plan. My company is applying which ethical
theory?
a. Ethical egoism
b. Deontological theory
c. Virtue-based theory
d. Utilitarianism
The GLOBE study identified only valued leadership attributes
a. True
b. False
What makes up the core of the servant leadership process?
a. Antecedent conditions
b. Characteristics of the leader
c. Servant leader behaviors
d. Context and culture
A leader’s respect for others is not shown by
a. Listening closely to subordinates.
B Being empathic.
c. Being tolerant of opposing points of view.
d. Being apathetic.
What do followers do when they are identifying with the aggressor?
a. They threaten others
b. They resign
c. The hold others to a higher standard
d. They threaten the leader
Leadership and management are similar in that they both
a. Involve influence
b. Entail working with others
c. Are concerned with effective goal management
d. Focus on adaptive and constructive change
Assisting group members in building cohesiveness is primarily a task behavior.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following is not one of the characteristics of team excellence, according to
Larson and LaFasto?
a. Results-driven structure.
b. Collaborative climate.
c. Authoritative leadership.
d. Clear, elevated goal.
I am doing a task I do not really understand and wish my leader would clear up my
confusion by telling me the first few steps. Which leadership style would help me the
most?
a. Directive behaviors
b. Achievement behaviors
c. Supportive behaviors
d. Participative behaviors
In LMX leaders treat followers
a. Equally
b. In a collective way
c. Independently
d. According to group average
Management by exception-active is
a. A form of transformational leadership
b. The non-leadership factor
c. A form of transactional leadership
d. More effective than contingent reward