Jeffrey is the chief financial officer of an established marketing firm. He recently
learned that the company is going to try to merge with a new firm. He shares this
potential merger with only a few of his mid-level managers he trusts. Jeffrey has
a. Information and referent power
b. Reward and referent power
c. Information and legitimate power
d. Personal and information power
Mann’s study in 1959
a. Focused on situational factors in leadership
b. Reviewed studies on traits of leaders in small groups
c. Suggested that certain traits could be used to identify leaders from non-leaders
d. Described leader traits in terms of social perceptiveness rather than dominance
A supervisory-level manager of a company who applies the level of administrative
skills to the degrees delineated in Katz’s model
a. Incorporates the entire staff in the process of shaping the company’s goals
b. Is more “hands-on” with producing the company’s product than interacting with staff
c. Has higher involvement with ideas than with people
d. Avoids getting to know the staff
Which factor in the full model of transformational leadership is the emotional factor in
which leaders act as strong role models for followers?
a. Individualized consideration
b. Inspirational motivation
c. Idealized influence
d. Intellectual stimulation
Who researched culture and leadership resulting in the GLOBE research program?
a. Adler and Bartholomew
b. Hofstede
c. Lord and Maher
d. House et al.
Concern about the ethics of leaders is a relatively recent phenomenon.
a. True
b. False
Leaders who give followers instructions about task accomplishment are using
a. Directive behaviors
b. Achievement behaviors
c. Supportive behaviors
d. Participative behaviors
Internal relational leadership actions include all of these except
a. Collaborating: including, involving.
b. Managing conflict and power issues.
c. Building commitment.
d. Networking and forming alliances.
Which of the following is a criticism of LMX?
a. It alerts leaders to their biases
b. It is a unique approach that looks at dyadic relationships
c. LMX does not fully explain the creation of high-quality exchanges
d. It directs our attention to the importance of communication in leadership
A mistake commonly made is to call a work group a “team” but treat it as a collection of
individuals.
a. True
b. False
Constructive narcissists have empathy and inspire others to be better at what they do
and even to change what they do. This is similar to the leader behaviors and principles
of which other leadership theory?
a. Path-goal
b. LMX
c. Authentic
d. Transformational
Virtue-based theories of ethics focus on the conduct of leaders rather than who they are
as people.
a. True
b. False
What was an element that GLOBE used to create regional clusters?
a. Nonverbal communication
b. Personal values
c. Common language
d. Population density
Which of the following is not an outcome of servant leadership?
a. Follower performance and growth
b. Organizational performance
c. Societal impact
d. Leader empowerment
The 100 or more years of research on traits was completed originally to
a. To distinguish between traits and behaviors
b. To define the five major traits associated with leadership
c. To distinguish between traits and skills
d. Determine a universal set of traits associated with leadership
Due to researchers identifying problems with the term glass ceiling, an alternative
metaphor now used is
a. Glass escalator.
b. Leadership labyrinth.
c. Whirlpool effect.
d. Corporate cupboard.
The situational approach requires leaders to demonstrate a strong degree of control.
a. True
b. False
All of the following are ways ethical leaders build community except by
a. Searching for goals that are compatible with everyone.
b. Being attentive to cultural values.
c. Keeping social collectives exclusive.
d. Establishing higher and broader moral purposes.
There are four basic premises in the Clinical Paradigm. What do all of these premises
have in common as they describe the framework of the psychodynamic approach?
According to the SLII® model, why is there a regression in commitment at
development levels 2 and 3? Do you agree with this reasoning?
Describe some of the measures used to define servant leadership. How does servant
leadership apply to you at this stage in your life?
Hypothetically, the decision-making steps involved in the team leadership model could
be done by any member of the team. Under what conditions would a team need to have
more than just the leader monitoring and intervening?
Defend or refute: Servant leadership should be conceptualized as a behavior rather than
a trait.
Propose some guidelines for how a leader can adapt his or her communication to
diverse cultures.