Transformational leadership is positively related to
a. Job satisfaction
b. Regular bonuses
c. Performance
d. Follower disengagement
Skills approach provides a structure consistent with leadership education programs.
a. True
b. False
Which global leader behavior is also a leader behavior in path-goal theory?
a. Charismatic/values-based
b. Team oriented
c. Autonomous
d. Participative
All of the following environmental influences are external except
a. Slow Internet
b. Traffic
c. Computer network crash
d. Unplowed parking lot
e. Inexperienced followers
When both genders use an autocratic, directive leadership style, females are evaluated
differently than men.
a. True
b. False
The problem with the LMX approach is that it gives little attention to the importance of
communication in leadership.
a. True
b. False
In the skills model, crystallized knowledge refers to
a. Intelligence quotient
b. Intellectual ability acquired over time
c. Motivation
d. Effectiveness
e. Inherent knowledge
Women respond to the gender-based leadership stereotype by
a. Decreasing use of communal characteristics
b. Using more agentic characteristics
c. Decreasing use of power over followers
d. Avoiding conflicts in the workplace
One of my employees works harder and logs more overtime and consistently works
weekends when needed compared with any of the other staff in our department. If I
choose to promote her instead of her coworkers based on her hard work, I am using
which principle of distributive justice?
a. According to individual need
b. According to societal contribution
c. According to personal rights
d. According to individual effort
The ethics theory that is low in self-interest and high in concern for others is
a. Utilitarianism.
b. Altruism.
c. Apathea.
d. Ethical egoism.
Ethics is concerned with
a. Character flaws in individuals
b. Characteristics of society that are flawed
c. Values and morals that individuals find desirable
d. Values and morals that society finds desirable
Which is not a social judgment skill?
a. Perspective taking
b. Behavioral flexibility
c. Social performance
d. Knowledge acquisition
Often leadership occurs within a context where one individual influences a group of
others to
accomplish goals. Which best describes this component of leadership?
a. Leadership occurs in groups.
b. Leadership involves influence.
c. Leadership includes organizations.
d. Leadership includes attention to common goals.
The leadership-making model is
a. Prescriptive
b. Descriptive
c. Unscripted
d. Transactional
Which best describes the overall results of Stogdill’s second survey when compared
with his
initial survey?
a. There was little to no difference in the findings.
b. Situational factors became less of a focus.
c. It was more balanced in its descriptions of the role of traits and leadership.
d. Personality played a larger role in leadership.
Current research on groups focuses more on team variables than exclusively on
outcomes of team performance.
a. True
b. False
Followers who prefer authoritarian leadership benefit from
a. Directive leadership
b. Participative leadership
c. Supportive leadership
d. Achievement-oriented leadership
The great person approach stresses that leaders’ traits are learned.
a. True
b. False
Greenleaf includes in his definition of servant leadership
a. Being taken care of by the servant follower
b. An emphasis on leaders first serving others
c. The servant follower serving others first
d. The servant follower serving the leader first
A strength of the trait approach is that it links specific leader traits to organizational
outcomes.
a. True
b. False