Followers of leaders using adaptive leadership should adapt to the leader’s goals.
a. True
b. False
Switzerland is often cited as having high degrees of which cultural dimension from the
GLOBE studies?
a. Humane orientation
b. Future orientation
c. Gender egalitarianism
d. Institutional collectivism
Day et al. refer to shared leadership as
a. Leader distributive method
b. Follower empowerment
c. Team leadership capacity
d. Shared leader capacity
Which of the following are positive psychological attributes of authentic leadership?
a. Hope
b. Integrity
c. Resilience
d. Self-discipline
People want to view their leaders as ethical, fair, and just, especially with the public
failing of high-level leaders in the past decade. This is
a. A criticism of ethical leadership
b. A strength of ethical leadership
c. A failure of ethical leadership
d. An unreasonable public view
Transformational leadership
a. Is a valuable and widely used approach
b. Is not an approach that scholars find useful
c. Is not an approach that practitioners find useful
d. Is an approach used only at the upper-management levels
Men were found to be more effective than women
a. When in gender neutral leadership roles
b. When in middle-management positions
c. In military leadership positions
d. In masculinized leadership positions
The traditional authority structure in organizations
a. Provides a safety net for teams
b. Often does not support lateral decision making
c. Can enhance the team culture
d. Often leads to successful, creative teamwork
91. Relational transparency refers to soliciting viewpoints from those who disagree with
you and giving them fair consideration.
a. True
b. False
Burn’s perspective on ethical leadership stems from his work in which other theory?
a. Leader-member exchange
b. Transformational
c. Adaptive
d. Servant
Norma and Joel work in a legal firm. They both are aware of a potential promotion
coming up soon. In the last project they did, Joel put most of the paperwork on Norma,
and she gladly took on the extra workload. However, when their boss was
complimenting the project, Norma let Joel take the credit and acted as if they both did
the same amount of work. This is an example of what advancement barrier for Norma?
a. Gender stereotypes
b. Work experience
c. Developmental opportunities
d. Self-promotion
Adaptive leadership is a unique kind of leadership in that
a. It focuses on the leader’s behaviors as a reflection of the followers
b. It focuses on the dynamics of mobilizing people to address change
c. It describes the process of rewards and punishments used in leadership
d. It describes the transformational processes in complex organizations
Which of the following statements is false?
a. Servant leadership is most effective in situations where subordinates are not open to
being guided.
b. Servant leaders place the good of followers over their own self-interests.
c. Servant leadership emphasizes that leaders be attentive to the concerns of their
followers.
d. Healing is one characteristic of a servant leader.
What model attempts to integrate mediation and monitoring concepts with team
effectiveness?
a. Team leadership model
b. Critical leadership functions model
c. Group effectiveness model
d. Team excellence model
Describe the social costs that women leaders experience for promoting themselves.
Are leaders born or made? Defend your answer with specific topics and research in the
text that supports your answer.
You have emerged as the leader of your business finance group project in class. Your
group has been working together for five weeks on the major part of the project, the
in-class group presentation. One group member has missed quite a few group meetings
lately and is minimally contributing to the ideas and final product for the in-class
presentation. This group member is a junior in finance with a minor in communications
and stated that she is an expert in PowerPoint and multimedia presentations. Based on
SLII®, which leadership style should you exhibit?
100. Compare the earlier LMX studies, which described in-groups and out-groups to
the leadership-making studies in which there are three phases. How is it more helpful to
describe LMX in three phases instead of categorizing in- and out-groups?
Describe the difference between “Get on the Balcony” and “Identify Adaptive
Challenges.”
Describe how the transformational leadership factors in the Full Range Model of
Transformational Leadership are similar to Kouzes and Posner’s five practices of
exemplary leadership.
Explain and give examples for the four Is of transformational leadership. Must all four
factors be present for someone to be transformational?
What is the benefit to the leader of having a high-quality relationship with employees?
Why has the trait approach failed to provide a definitive list of leadership traits?