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Business Administration explores the foundational principles and practices essential to managing organizations effectively in today's dynamic environment. Students will gain a comprehensive understanding of key business functions, including management, marketing, finance, operations, and human resources. The course emphasizes strategic decision-making, leadership, and ethical considerations, while also addressing the impact of globalization, technology, and innovation on business processes. Through case studies, real-world projects, and interactive learning, students will develop the analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills necessary to succeed in diverse business settings.
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Leadership Theory and Practice 8th Edition by
Peter G. Northouse
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) Non-leadership is ______.
A) a relational interaction between a group of people toward common goals
B) sharing goal development with followers
C) leadership that is focused on individual goals
D) leadership that is focused on working with followers to achieve common goals
Answer: C
Q2) You and your co-workers are struggling to learn a new software program at work,and you are on a tight deadline to get a report to a major client when your boss decides to step in.Which of the following uses of power by your boss would run counter to the common goals at work?
A) sharing new guidelines he just received from the software engineers
B) offering to take the team to dinner when the report is complete
C) sitting with your team and troubleshooting the program alongside you
D) announcing that anyone who is not proficient by Friday will be replaced
Answer: D
Q3) The research on leadership generally has found it to be a relatively simple process.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Trait Approach
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Q1) The trait approach focuses primarily on the leader,not on the followers or the situation.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The trait approach is ______.
A) no longer a viable leadership approach
B) primarily a focus of outdated research
C) still a focus of contemporary leadership research
D) irrelevant in modern society
Answer: C
Q3) When trying to identify who leaders are,I am using the ______ approach.
A) skills
B) trait
C) behavioral
D) social judgment
Answer: B
Q4) Name the five personality traits known as the Big Five Personality Factors.
Answer: Openness,Conscientiousness,Extraversion,Agreeableness,Neuroticism
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Chapter 3: Skills Approach
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Q1) The knowledge competency in the skills model is most similar to ______.
A) self-confidence in trait approach
B) Katz's conceptual skill
C) Katz's technical skill
D) determination in the trait approach
Answer: C
Q2) The breadth of the skills approach,which includes motivation,critical thinking,and personality,______.
A) is considered a strength of this approach
B) is considered a weakness of this approach
C) adds to the precise nature of the approach
D) adds to the approach's prescriptive value
Answer: B
Q3) According to Katz,the most important leadership skills for lower-levels of management are ______.
A) technical skills
B) problem-solving skills
C) technical, human, and conceptual skills
D) technical and human skills
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Behavioral Approach
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Q1) Which of the following is not a relationship-focused leader behavior?
A) nurturing followers
B) employee orientation
C) consideration
D) initiating structure
Q2) Blake & Mouton indicated that opportunistic leaders have a ______ style that they typically use and a ______ style they use under pressure.
A) dominant, back-up
B) task, production
C) authority, paternal
D) relationship, maternal
Q3) Which of the styles on Blake and Mouton's Leadership Grid has high concern for interpersonal relationships and low concern for task accomplishment?
A) authority compliance
B) country club
C) impoverished
D) middle of the road
Q4) Considering Blake and Mouton's Leadership Grid,name a leader action that is associated with Team Management.
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Chapter 5: Situational Approach
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Q1) The SLII model is divided into two parts: ______.
A) leadership attributes and follower skills
B) leadership skills and follower development level
C) leadership development levels and follower behaviors
D) leadership style and follower development level
Q2) Some competence but low commitment ______.
A) D1
B) D2
C) S2
D) S1
Q3) Give an example of a directive behavior and an example of a supportive behavior.
Q4) You are president of a large corporation.At a typical monthly meeting,each of your vice presidents gives standard area reports.In the past,these reports have been good,and the VPs seem satisfied about their work.Based on SLII,which leadership style should you exhibit at the next meeting?
A) style 1
B) style 2
C) style 3
D) style 4
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Chapter 6: Path-Goal Theory
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Q1) Path-goal theory ______.
A) is not a practical model
B) is a practical model
C) is not prescriptive
D) has high validity
Q2) According to path-goal theory,when a follower encounters some type of obstacle at work,the leader should help.What are two actions the leader can take?
Q3) Your supervisor is happy with your work and expresses confidence that you will bring the project in ahead of time and under budget.She is using ______.
A) directive behaviors
B) achievement behaviors
C) supportive behaviors
D) participative behaviors
Q4) My job is data entry,which I do all day long every day of the week.This is a(n)______.
A) complex task characteristic
B) ambiguous task characteristic
C) challenging task characteristic
D) mundane task characteristic
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Chapter 7: Leadermember Exchange Theory
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Q1) List two organizational benefits of having many high-quality leader-member exchanges.
Q2) As the leadership making process progresses through the stages,the follower's interest moves mostly from an interest in ______ to an interest in ______.
Q3) The early studies in LMX reported that ______.
A) after the in-groups are formed, the vertical dyads are formed
B) after the out-groups are formed, the vertical dyads are formed
C) the vertical dyads form the basis for in-group and out-group formation
D) the vertical dyads are independent from in-group and out-group formation
Q4) During the first phase of leadership making,the interactions within the leader-subordinate dyad are generally low quality.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is a key predictor of relationship quality for both leaders and followers?
A) extraversion
B) performance
C) agreeableness
D) trust
Q6) What are two characteristics of in-group relationships?
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Chapter 8: Transformational Leadership
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Q1) Communicating a vision for the future of the organization in Bennis and Nanus's research is most similar to which of the transformational factors in the Full Range Model?
A) individualized consideration
B) idealized influence
C) contingent reward
D) inspirational motivation
Q2) The active form of management by exception ______.
A) is slightly more effective than the passive form
B) is considered non-leadership
C) is similar to individualized consideration
D) is enacted only once problems arise
Q3) What type of leader uses creative deployment of self through positive self-regard and emphasizes his or her strengths rather than dwelling on weaknesses?
A) servant
B) transformational
C) path-goal
D) transactional
Q4) List three of the Five Practices of Leadership that Kouzes and Posner prescribe.
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Chapter 9: Authentic Leadership
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Q1) Which viewpoint defines authentic leadership as a reciprocal process?
A) intrapersonal
B) interpersonal
C) developmental
D) fundamental
Q2) Which of the following scholars argued that followers want to have an open,trusting relationship with their leaders,and will then give them greater loyalty and commitment?
A) Terry
B) George
C) Walumbwa et al.
D) Luthans and Avolio
Q3) Which viewpoint is a perspective of authentic leadership that is leader centered?
A) intrapersonal
B) interpersonal
C) developmental
D) fundamental
Q4) What does it mean to define authentic leadership from a developmental perspective?
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Chapter 10: Servant Leadership
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Q1) My math teacher not only helps me solve difficult equations,but she also wrote me a great letter of recommendation for the college I want to attend that has a highly ranked math department.She is using which servant leader behavior?
A) helping followers grow and succeed
B) emotional healing
C) behaving ethically
D) conceptualizing
Q2) My leader is great at predicting the future based on past experiences.He is using which characteristic of a servant leader?
A) empathy
B) awareness
C) persuasion
D) foresight
Q3) Which three antecedent conditions have an impact on servant leadership?
A) context and culture, societal effect, follower receptivity
B) follower receptivity, emotional healing, creating value for the community
C) follower performance and growth, societal impact, behaving ethically
D) context and culture, leader attributes, follower receptivity
Q4) Give a specific example of putting followers first.
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Chapter 11: Adaptive Leadership
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Q1) According to adaptive leadership theory,who solves technical challenges?
A) employees
B) leaders and followers
C) leaders
D) the organization
Q2) Adaptive leaders are said to regulate personal distress.Which of the following is least similar to this idea?
A) the self-management aspect of emotional intelligence
B) the idealized influence concept in transformational leadership
C) the self-awareness dimension of authentic leadership
D) the conceptualizing behavior of servant leadership
Q3) Why is the term "follower" used infrequently in writings about adaptive leadership?
A) it is a derogatory term
B) follower implies a submissive role
C) it lessens the role of the leader
D) adaptive leadership theory is not concerned with followers
Q4) Defend or refute the following statement with specific supporting information: Adaptive leadership is the most relevant of the leadership approaches I have studied so far.
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Chapter 12: Followership
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Q1) Effective followers recognize their relative powerlessness but do not let that prevent them from challenging a leader when necessary.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The followership approach is both descriptive and prescriptive in nature.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Leaders will always be more powerful than followers.Defend or refute.
Q4) The fact that recent leadership literature has now focused more explicitly on followership than ever before is considered ______.
A) a weakness of followership studies
B) a strength of followership studies
C) a conflict with leadership studies
D) a scholarly trend on the decline
Q5) Think of a workplace or organization within which you have been a follower recently.Using one of the followership typologies from the text and its associated dimensions,name what type of follower you are.Use examples of your behavior and a leader's behavior to support your claim.
Q6) Give the definition of followership as presented in your textbook.
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Chapter 13: Leadership Ethics
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Q1) Teleological theories include all of the following except ______.
A) ethical egoism
B) utilitarianism
C) altruism
D) ethical egalitarianism
Q2) When research found that among a sample of leaders in journalism there was evidence of respect for others,concern for harm,and proactive social engagement,it suggested those studied were at the ______.
A) low stage of moral development
B) mid stage of moral development
C) high stage of moral development
D) fault line of moral development
Q3) While ethical behavior is important for everyone in an organization,why is it especially important for leaders?
Q4) Virtue-based theories ______.
A) focus on the actions of the leader
B) are about the leader's character
C) are duty driven
D) focus on consequences of the leader's actions
Q5) Compare and contrast the ethical leadership perspectives of Burns and Heifetz.
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Chapter 14: Team Leadership
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Q1) What scholar(s)provided grounded research support for the group effectiveness approach?
A) Hackman and Walton
B) McGrath
C) Larson and LaFasto
D) Hill
Q2) We all feel committed to do our best because as a team we created our code of conduct and performance criteria together.Which characteristic of team excellence is our team displaying?
A) results-driven structure
B) standards of excellence
C) real team
D) unified commitment
Q3) Our food product development team has an excellent sense of team unity and employs a spirit of camaraderie in daily operations together.Which characteristic of team excellence is our team displaying?
A) results-driven structure
B) clear norms of conduct
C) coaching atmosphere
D) unified commitment
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Chapter 15: Gender and Leadership
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Q1) Many studies have shown that organizations often have higher standards of performance and effort for women.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is not a cited reason for women's underrepresentation in leadership roles?
A) human capital
B) gender differences
C) prejudice
D) intelligence
Q3) Studies have shown that men are less effective than women when they supervise a higher proportion of male subordinates.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The majority of organizational research applies equally well to people of all colors,abilities,and sexual orientations.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Why should men be concerned about the labyrinth of women's leadership?
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Chapter 16: Culture and Leadership
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Q1) Plan a way for two countries that differ on future orientation (one with a high score,the other with a low score)to negotiate an agreement on environmental protection.
Q2) Which of the six global leadership behaviors is focused on ensuring the safety and security of the leader and the group?
A) self-protective
B) team-oriented
C) participative
D) humane-oriented
Q3) Universally desirable leadership attributes do not include ______.
A) effective bargainer
B) dictatorial
C) plans ahead
D) win-win problem solver
Q4) According to Ting-Toomey (1999),why should global leaders be skilled in creating transcultural visions?
Q5) What are two factors that can inhibit cultural awareness?
Q6) Global leaders need to be skilled in creating transcultural visions.
A)True
B)False
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