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Leadership Theory and Practice 7th Edition by
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) As captain of the soccer team,your primary concern is winning games and maintaining the strength of the team.Your players couldn't care less about teamwork and just want to win.Which component of leadership would you recommend the leader focus on?
A)Roles
B)Common goals
C)Process
D)Influence
Answer: B
Q2) Simonet and Tett (2012)found that management is distinct from leadership by
A)Extrinsic motivation
B)Intrinsic motivation
C)Strategic planning
D)Creative thinking
Answer: A
Q3) A factor common to the leadership classification systems is the view of leadership as a process of influence.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Trait Approach
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Q1) Having a benchmark for what to look for if we want to be leaders is about
A)Trying to develop specifically the five major traits in the text
B)Giving a boss a specific set of traits to look for in potential new hires
C)Helping individuals see their own traits and decide if these are leadership traits
D)Specifically determining traits for a particular job promotion
Answer: C
Q2) The trait approach is
A)No longer a viable leadership approach
B)Is primarily a focus of outdated research
C)Still a focus of contemporary leadership research
D)Irrelevant in modern society
Answer: C
Q3) A strength of the trait approach
A)Self-confidence is the trait most important to leadership
B)There is a clear list of leader traits
C)Identifying traits is highly objective
D)It is appealing to identify special traits in leaders
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Skills Approach
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Q1) Katz describes human skill as
A)Being aware of one's own perspective on issues
B)Being competent with the process or product within a company
C)Being aware of the perspective of others on issues
D)Being able to shape the ideas of an organization
Answer: A,C
Q2) Career experience is a strong influence on a leader's competencies.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Katz states that human skills are most important for middle- and top-management levels.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q4) Human skills are important at all levels of management.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Behavioral Approach
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Q1) Which research group labeled task behaviors "initiating structure"?
A)Ohio State studies
B)Michigan studies
C)Blake and Mouton
D)Stogdill and Zacaro
Q2) Collectively among all the research on the Behavioral Approach,what is one consistent finding from the research?
A)The high task-high relationship style is best
B)The middle-of-the-road style is what most followers prefer
C)The opportunistic style is what most leaders use
D)There was no universal style determined to be best
Q3) Paternalistic and maternalistic use both ______ and ______ but never combine the two.
A)1,1 and 5,5
B)9,9 and 9,1
C)5,5 and 1,9
D)1,9 and 9,1
E)1,1 and 9,9
Q4) Which leadership style would be most difficult to change?
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Chapter 5: Situational Approach
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Q1) Followers who are quite competent to complete tasks but lack the commitment to do so are
A)D1
B)D2
C)D3
D)D4
Q2) You are the executive director of the local animal humane society. A staff member you supervise has been working at the society for about one year.At the annual performance evaluation review,you share that you are pleased to see the employee has mastered both the basic and more difficult tasks of the job.You notice,however,that this employee still lacks the confidence and motivation to take on new tasks.Based on the Situational Leadership® Approach,which leadership style should you exhibit?
A)Delegating
B)Supporting
C)Coaching
D)Directing
Q3) In SLII®,Style 3 is high supportive and low directive.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Pathgoal Theory
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Q1) My job as a leader using path-goal theory is to use a style that
A)That best fits the followers' needs
B)That best fits the followers' needs and the type of job they are doing
C)That best fits the leader's style and the followers' work style
D)That best fits the followers' characteristics
Q2) With path-goal theory incorporating so many different aspects of leadership within its model,which of the following could be argued?
A)The practical use of the theory is not valid.
B)It fails to determine the role of motivation.
C)It allows the leader to have a wider range of options as leader.
D)It is difficult to use the theory fully when trying to improve the leadership process.
Q3) For task characteristics that are complex,how many possible leader behaviors might be used? A)1
Q4) How can a leader's style affect a follower's motivation?
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Chapter 7: Leadermember Exchange Theory
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Q1) LMX theory can help leaders
A)To be aware of potential biases toward some of our followers
B)To be aware of who in the organization they can trust and depend upon
C)To be aware of trying to help all followers into the in-group
D)To be aware that some followers may not want to be in the in-group
Q2) The early research on LMX theory was called
A)Group classification theory
B)Vertical dyad linkage theory
C)Didactic linkage theory
D)Horizontal dyad linkage theory
Q3) Which leadership theory centered on the interaction between leaders and followers?
A)Trait
B)Skills
C)LMX
D)Style
Q4) 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?
Q5) What is the relationship between LMX and employee empowerment?
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Chapter 8: Transformational Leadership
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Q1) Of the scholar(s)listed below,who argued that true leadership raises the moral values of subordinates?
A)Bennis and Nanus
B)Graen and Uhl-Bien
C)MacGregor Burns
D)Kouzes and Posner
Q2) Burns outlined leadership in his seminal work in 1978 and described leadership as
A)Quite different from power
B)Quite similar to power
C)Equivalent to power
D)About use of power and authority
Q3) Which factor in the full model of transformational leadership encourages followers to be creative and innovative?
A)Individualized consideration
B)Inspirational motivation
C)Idealized influence
D)Intellectual stimulation
Q4) Explain the relationship between transformational,transactional,and charismatic leadership.
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Chapter 9: Authentic Leadership
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Q1) Which of the following are other factors that influence authentic leadership?
A)Moral reasoning
B)Positive psychological capacities
C)Resilience
D)Relational transparency
Q2) In George's model of authentic leadership,the central component or as he called it "true north" is
A)Purpose
B)The leader
C)Compassion
D)Consistency
Q3) I think about situations and the future with a sense of abundance.What influencing factor of authentic leadership am I using?
A)Moral reasoning
B)Integrity
C)Optimism
D)Confidence
Q4) Self-discipline is a dimension of authentic leadership in George's model.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Servant Leadership
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Q1) Context and culture is
A)An antecedent condition in servant leadership
B)A leader behavior in servant leadership
C)An outcome of transformational leadership
D)An outcome of servant leadership
Q2) Which of the following is true of antecedent conditions that have an impact on servant leadership?
A)Dimensions of culture will influence leadership.
B)Leader attributes are much less important in this model.
C)Leaders need to conceptualize the situation or organization well.
D)Leaders need to put followers first.
Q3) Servant leadership is
A)Follower focused
B)Leader focused
C)Authority focused
D)Paternalistic
Q4) Explain the process of how servant leadership works.
Q5) How can a leader develop the ability to be a visionary?
Q6) How does the power of servanthood compare with French and Raven's five bases of social power?
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Q1) My company decides to merge with another to be more financially stable,but in the process it appears best to downsize our current staff. This is an adaptive challenge identified by which archetype?
A)Gap Between Espoused Values and Behaviors
B)Competing Commitments
C)Work Avoidance
D)Speaking the Unspeakable
Q2) Creating a holding environment helps regulate distress because
A)It is a space where conflict gets out of control and leaders support this process
B)The tension in the space has enough challenge without negotiations being so tense followers shut down
C)Negotiations are heated up on purpose to create overwhelming tension;then real adaptive work can happen
D)There is no pressure to create new contractual relationships while negotiations occur in the holding space
Q3) Adaptive leadership is a well-developed empirically tested model.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Psychodynamic Approach
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Q1) The Kets de Vries Neurotic Organization Study created a new framework for analysis of organizations proposing that
A)Organizations have their own set of psychological neuroses
B)Followers set the psychological structure of organizations
C)Neuroses of a top leader can be recreated throughout the organization
D)Social dreaming is a way of defining meaning for the organization
Q2) Kets de Vries found that leaders with neuroses do not spread those neuroses throughout the rest of the organization.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The psychodynamic approach looks at human behavior and acknowledges
A)People are unique and paradoxical
B)People are generally psychic
C)People are complex
D)People lack motivation
Q4) The clinical paradigm in psychodynamic approach attempts to discover how leaders and organizations really work.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Leadership Ethics
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Q1) My followers are foremost in the plans I make for our team. I am often seen mentoring my followers and using citizenship behaviors that benefit all of my followers. I am using which ethical leadership principle?
A)Respects others
B)Serve others
C)Shows justice
D)Builds community
Q2) Which ethical leadership principle is described as being the leaders' duty to treat others as ends in themselves and never as means to an end?
A)Serves others
B)Builds community
C)Shows justice
D)Respects others
Q3) Ethical egoism is concerned with doing the greatest good for the greatest number.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is the ethic of caring (Gilligan,1982)?
Q5) Compare and contrast the ethical leadership perspectives of Burns and Heifetz.
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Q1) A benefit of shared leadership compared with a non-shared leadership process is
A)More cohesion
B)More challenges
C)More conflict
D)More disruption
Q2) Heterarchy leads to positive outcomes
A)For all team members
B)For team members who want power
C)If team members find heterarchy legitimate
D)If the top leader makes the final decision
Q3) The team leadership model provides the leader or a designated team member with a mental road map to diagnose team problems.
A)True
B)False
Q4) I am a leader who carefully watches the complexity of the situation and takes appropriate actions.I am using
A)Requisite variety
B)Mental modeling
C)Environmental actions
D)Social modeling
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Chapter 15: Gender and Leadership
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Q1) Gender-biased prejudice is defined as
A)Bias based on known fact about gender differences
B)Bias based on the typically male gender leadership roles
C)Bias based on the typically female gender leadership roles
D)Bias based on gender stereotypical characteristics
Q2) Which style of leadership is beneficial for women to use if they want to successfully navigate the leadership labyrinth?
A)Authentic
B)Servant
C)Transformational
D)Team style in the Leadership Grid
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) Empirical evidence of gender stereotypes reveals that these stereotypes
A)Are less deleterious to males
B)Alter the perception and evaluation of female leaders
C)Alter the perception and evaluation of male leaders
D)Directly affect women aspiring to leadership roles
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Chapter 16: Culture and Leadership
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Q1) The GLOBE study identified only valued leadership attributes
A)True
B)False
Q2) My supervisor involves all of us in making and implementing decisions.Which of the global leadership behaviors am I using?
A)Participative
B)Team-oriented
C)Autonomous
D)Humane oriented
Q3) I am really lucky to belong to an organization that places an emphasis on rewarding us for meeting challenging goals. My organization in this example is using which cultural dimension from the GLOBE studies?
A)Performance orientation
B)Future orientation
C)Institutional collectivism
D)Gender egalitarianism
Q4) Ethnocentrism can be a major obstacle to effective leadership.
A)True
B)False
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