Jennifer can see that her leader sometimes directs the team and sometimes tries to build
relationships with the group. She does not change her behaviors based on whom she is
interacting with; Jennifer just can pick out when she uses these two different styles.
Jennifer’s leader is using
a. Situational leadership
b. Path-goal leadership
c. Skills leadership
d. Behavioral leadership
Some studies have suggested that masculinity is a leadership trait.
a. True
b. False
Ethical leadership
a. Is a topic of many training and development programs
b. Can be applied at all levels of organizations
c. Is leadership that involves values
d. Provides prescriptions for how to develop ethical leadership
How many vertical dyadic relationships can occur in LMX?
a. Only one, the relationship between leader and all followers
b. Only one, the relationship between the leader and the in-group
c. Two, the relationship between the leader and the in-group and out-group
d. As many linkages as there are followers
Which two path-goal leader behaviors are also leader behaviors in the situational
approach?
a. Participative and directive
b. Supportive and authoritative
c. Supportive and directive
d. Achievement-oriented and directive
A leader who makes sure the personal and social needs of followers are met is
displaying
a. Country club behaviors
b. Authority compliance behaviors
c. Middle-of-the-road behaviors
d. Team behaviors
e. Impoverished behaviors
Shankman and Allen’s (2002) model of emotionally intelligent leadership suggests
leaders must take into account these three fundamental facets of leadership:
a. Context, self, and others
b. Referent power, expert power, and legitimate power
c. Desire for power, desire to help others, and desire to win
d. Determination, integrity, and sociability
Adaptive work is primarily the work of the followers.
a. True
b. False
Adaptive leadership conceptualizes the leader as one who
a. Solves problems for people
b. Adapts to various situations
c. Makes the hard decisions for others
d. Encourages others to do the problem solving
Leadership definitions have evolved during the 20th century in the following way:
a. The trait approach remains the most popular approach over time.
b. A leader’s power remains a key requirement for goal accomplishment.
c. Focus on leadership effectiveness became prominent in the 1970s.
d. Leadership research peaked in the 1980s.
Which social defense mechanism is described as seeing one’s own shortcomings in
others?
a. Splitting
b. Denial
c. Displacement
d. Projection
Teams with distributed leadership have some advantages over single leader teams.
a. True
b. False
Parameters that define the term “team” in the text include
a. Interdependent members
b. Intradependent members
c. Need to coordinate efforts
d. Desire to collaborate
The systems perspective in adaptive leadership is used when a leader diagnoses
follower problems and prescribes possible solutions for them.
a. True
b. False
Additional research completed by Mumford, Campion, and Morgeson used a four skill
model to assess cognitive, interpersonal, business, and strategic skills in managers at
junior and senior levels of an organization. The research findings in this study were
most similar to
a. Katz’s hierarchical three skills model
b. Mumford’s skills model
c. Blake and Mouton’s leadership grid
d. The Ohio State studies
Transactional leadership focuses on the exchanges that occur between leaders and their
followers.
a. True
b. False
The origins of the psychodynamic paradigm stem from which scholar’s work?
a. Fromm
b. Freud
c. Maccoby
d. Jung
Scholarly research and popular work on the nature of leadership exploded in this decade
a. 1950
b. 1960
c. 1970
d. 1980
McGrath suggests preventing deleterious changes as part of
a. Monitoring/internal.
b. Executive action/internal.
c. Monitoring/external.
d. Executive action/external