_______that includes expert power and referent power is based on personal
characteristics and interpersonal relationships.
a. Hard power
b. Socialized power
c. Soft power
d. Personalized power
The basic assumption underlying behavior modification is the_____.
a. law of initial values
b. all-or-none law
c. matching law
d. law of effect
Which of the following is a characteristic of entrepreneurial leaders?
a. They are concerned with innovation and creativity.
b. They are interested in maintaining the status quo.
c. They avoid taking risks and are unwilling to stretch themselves.
d. They tend to be dependent on their followers.
Changing how future leaders are trained could:
a. eliminate monopolistic competition.
b. increase training expenses of organizations.
c. make organizations more profit-oriented.
d. solve the ethics deficit in organizations.
To improve strategic leadership, leaders can:
a. accept an answer rather than looking for patterns in what they see and hear.
b. ignore buy-in among employees and other stakeholders who may have conflicting
views and interests.
c. identify weak points in the necessary skills required for thinking strategically and
work toward correcting them.
d. stick to their own and others’ mental models and assumptions as challenging them
can cause a sense of disorientation.
In the context of the trait approach to leadership, the diversity of traits that effective
leaders possess indicates that:
a. leadership includes grasping diverse points of view and leaving everybody satisfied.
b. leadership ability is not a genetic endowment.
c. leadership ability cannot be acquired without a complete set of skills.
d. leadership includes being prideful and arrogant.
___________refers to strong support from a powerfully positioned executive who is
willing to put his or her reputation on the line to promote an individual’s advancement
to higher organizational levels.
a. Employee affirmity
b. Ethnocentrism
c. Prejudice
d. Sponsorship
Leadership coaching helps followers upgrade their skills and enhance their career
development.
a. True
b. False
Sometimes organizational or personal changes create a situation in which a follower
must withdraw from a particular leader-follower relationship. This requires the follower
to have:
a. the courage to leave.
b. the will to participate in transformation.
c. the ability to face the challenge.
d. the willingness to assume responsibility.
Leaders in an advisory role are responsible for developing broad organizational
capabilities rather than accomplishing specific business results.
a. True
b. False
The benefits followers receive from leadership coaching include:
a. gaining a new perspective.
b. doing only what is told.
c. avoiding conflict.
d. utilizing uncritical thinking skills.
Attempts to achieve collaboration, empowerment, and diversity can succeed only if:
a. leaders follow the principles and practices of the industrial era.
b. managers want to treat people the way they treat machines or the bottom line.
c. leaders intentionally practice and apply new paradigm principles.
d. leaders hire people who think and work alike.
Working effectively with others requires that individuals:
a. regard their assumptions as fixed truths rather than temporary ideas.
b. draw on subtle aspects of themselves and appeal to those aspects in others.
c. do not let their emotions and beliefs affect others.
d. use fear to motivate others effectively.
Identify the true statement regarding visions.
a. Visions are always communicated using a single channel.
b. Many visions tend to be the properties of leaders alone.
c. Visions fail to be emotional appeals to fundamental human needs.
d. Many visions fail to adequately involve employees.
According to the situational theory of leadership, a leader with a(n)
Instructions about how tasks should be accomplished.
a. supporting style
b. coaching style
c. directing style
d. entrusting style
Directive leadership behavior, as described in the path-goal theory, is similar to the
coaching or supporting style of leadership in the Hersey and Blanchard model.
a. True
b. False
Face-to-face discussion:
a. is the richest medium of communication. b. conveys only cues written on paper.
c. is an impersonal method of communication.
d. is slow to provide feedback.
The mission is made up of two critical parts: the core values and the .
You are the owner of a small business with ten employees. What methods would you
use to motivate them?
_______is highly risky for employees because they may lose their jobs, be ostracized
by coworkers, or be transferred to undesirable positions.
was designed to enable leaders to diagnose both leadership style and organizational
situation.
Briefly explain the features of an organization’s mission.
Briefly describe referent power of leaders.
refers to disagreements among people about the goals to be achieved or the content of
the tasks to be performed.