Leadership Theory and Practice
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Course Introduction
This course explores the foundational theories and contemporary practices of leadership across diverse organizational contexts. Students will examine classical and modern leadership models, including trait, behavioral, contingency, transformational, and transactional theories, and analyze how cultural, ethical, and situational factors influence effective leadership. Through case studies, self-assessment, and practical application exercises, participants will develop critical skills in communication, decision-making, team motivation, and conflict resolution, preparing them to lead effectively in dynamic and complex environments.
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Effective Leadership 5th Edition by Robert N. Lussier
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Chapter 1: Who Is a Leader
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Q1) Your leader has asked you to design new performance evaluation system. Designing the system is example of which of Mintzberg's managerial roles?
A) entrepreneur
B) interpersonal
C) disturbance-handler
D) negotiator
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following statements regarding leaders and managers is NOT true?
A) A manager always has the ability to influence others; a leader may not.
B) A manager has a formal title and authority.
C) A leader may either be a manager or a nonmanager.
D) All managers perform four major functions: planning, organizing, leading, and controlling.
Answer: A
Q3) Which of the following is NOT one of Mintzberg's interpersonal leadership roles?
A) figurehead
B) entrepreneur
C) leader
D) liaison
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Leadership Ethics and Traits
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Q1) High energy is best categorized as the conscientiousness dimension of the Big Five.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Creating a win-win situation for all relevant parties so that everyone benefits from the decision is known as:
A) ethics.
B) the golden rule.
C) a compromise.
D) the stakeholder approach to ethics.
Answer: D
Q3) The Leader Motive Profile (LMP) includes a high need for achievement, a moderate need for affiliation, and a moderate need for power, which is socialized.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Do you believe that if you use ethical behavior it will pay off in the long run?
Answer: Generally, the answer is yes.
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Chapter 3: Leadership Motivation and Behavior
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Q1) The primary reason people do what they do is to meet their needs or wants.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Herzberg contends that providing maintenance factors will make employees satisfied or motivate them.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The Leadership Grid is based on two leadership dimensions called:
A) concern for production and concern for people.
B) concern for profit and concern for productivity.
C) concern for motivation and concern productivity.
D) none of the answers are correct
Answer: A
Q4) Examples of Herzberg's motivators are pay, job security, and benefits.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Contingency Theories in Leadership
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Q1) List which leadership models are prescriptive and descriptive, and explain why they are classified as such.
Q2) Environment situational factors include task structure, formal authority, and work group.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The most powerful determinant of overall situational favorableness is:
A) task structure.
B) locus of control.
C) position power.
D) leader-member relations.
Q4) In the normative leadership model, the ____ leadership style lets the group diagnose the problem and make the decision within stated limits.
A) consult group
B) facilitate
C) delegate
D) decide
Q5) Explain substitutes and neutralizers of leadership.
Q6) Describe the contingency leadership theory variables.
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Chapter 5: Influencing: Politics, Power, Negotiation, and Networking
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Q1) The manager likes to use employee participation and does not like to have to give direct instructions. However, there are times when it is necessary to give direct assignments. When the manager has to give directives, he tends to be very polite. He usually asks if the employee will take the assignment and gives personal thanks. The manager is using which type of power to get the job done?
A) coercive
B) connection
C) reward or legitimate
D) referent
E) information or expert
Q2) Referent power is based on the user's personal relationships with others.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Your one-minute self-sell should end with a question to encourage two-way communication.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Politics is a medium of exchange.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Coaching, Communication, and Conflict Skills
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Q1) Coaching. Your employee, Chris, is a clerical worker. Chris uses files, as do the other ten employees in the department. The employees all know that they are supposed to return the files when they are finished so that others can find the files when they need them. Employees should only have one file out at a time. You noticed that Chris has five files on the desk, and another employee is looking for one of them.
Q2) Communication is the process of conveying information and meaning.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The richest channel of communication is
A) a memo
B) an e-mail
C) Oral face-to-face
D) In your own office
Q4) The message-receiving process includes:
A) listening, analyzing, and checking understanding.
B) listening, paraphrasing, and analyzing.
C) listening, analyzing, and following up.
D) listening, analyzing, and giving feedback.
Q5) List the steps in the oral message-sending process.
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Chapter 7: Follower-ship and Leader Member Exchange
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Q1) The in-group includes followers with few or no social ties to their leader, in a strictly task-centered relationship characterized by low exchange and top-down influence.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The ____ follower is someone who is high on involvement but low on critical thinking.
A) alienated
B) conformist
C) passive
D) pragmatic
Q3) Which of the following statements best describes the vertical dyadic linkage theory?
A) The focus is on the quality of each dyad.
B) Leaders aspire to build positive relationships with all followers.
C) Linkages among peers are disavowed.
D) Leader-follower interactions create in-groups and out-groups.
Q4) Describe an obstacle to delegation, or sign of delegating too little, that you have observed on the job.
Q5) State what the LMX-7 scale is and its use.
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Chapter 8: Self-Managed Teams and Team Leadership
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Q1) Which of the following statements regarding team norms is NOT true?
A) Norms determine what behavior is acceptable and unacceptable.
B) Norms are typically developed after a team has been together for awhile.
C) Norms influence how a team's members perceive and interact with one another, approach decisions, and solve problems.
D) Norms often emerge out of critical events in the team's history and way(s) in which team members respond.
Q2) Describe how team member characteristics impact self-managed team effectiveness.
Q3) Team quality pertains to:
A) the team's ability to achieve superior results with fewer resources and exceed customer expectations.
B) individual members' organizational positions.
C) good communication between team members.
D) all of the answers are correct
Q4) During meetings, the team leader should focus on all of the following EXCEPT:
A) group structure.
B) group process.
C) group development.
D) group effectiveness.
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Chapter 9: Transformational and Charismatic Leadership
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Q1) Explain the locus of charismatic leadership.
Q2) Leadership that empowers followers to make decisions and have control over their jobs is called:
A) servant leadership.
B) followership.
C) stewardship.
D) none of the answers are correct
Q3) The theoretic issue of the locus of charismatic leadership asks whether:
A) charismatic leaders are born or made.
B) the precondition is in the followers' mind or in the leader's mind.
C) the vision is the compelling factor or if the energy and personal charm is the compelling factor.
D) the leadership phenomenon stems more from the leader's qualities or the situation facing the leader.
Q4) Max Weber used the term "charisma" to explain a form of influence based on traditional or legal-rational authority systems.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Briefly explain Max Weber's conceptualization of charismatic leadership.
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Chapter 10: Leadership of Ethics, Diversity, and Culture
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Q1) Discuss which of the four mechanisms for advocating ethical behavior exist where you work or have worked.
Q2) You have been hired as CEO of Lugar Industries and have been asked to change the organizational culture. Because your company operates in a quickly changing environment, you need to have a culture which encourages employees to respond quickly to changes, to take risks, innovate, and have the authority to make quick decisions to take advantage of opportunities and to avoid risks. Based on these conditions, you, as CEO, want a(n) ____ culture.
A) adaptive
B) cooperative
C) bureaucratic
D) competitive
Q3) In a high power-distance culture:
A) leaders and their members interact on several levels as equals.
B) the leader is the primary decision maker.
C) decision making is a group-oriented activity.
D) none of the answers are correct
Q4) Differentiate between the four cultural value types.
Q5) Explain why diversity has been described by some as a "double-edged sword."
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Q6) Describe the key indicators of a culture that supports diversity.
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Chapter 11: Change Management and Strategic Leadership
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Q1) Core competencies are a source of competitive advantage when they are:
A) not easily sustainable.
B) hard to imitate.
C) rare.
D) all of the answers are correct
Q2) To overcome resistance to change, effective managers must think in terms of people actions rather than task actions.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Resistance to change is more likely to succeed if the forces resisting the change are stronger than the forces driving the need for change. Describe some of the specific tactics that resisters would employ to thwart change efforts.
Q4) A strategic vision is a view of the future that is readily attainable.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Think of a time when a major change initiative at an organization you were or are affiliated with succeeded or failed. Identify possible reasons for the success or failure, and tie them to the three phases of the force-field model-unfreezing, changing, and refreezing.
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Chapter 12: The Learning Organization and Crisis Leadership
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Q1) What are the main components of a precrisis plan?
Q2) It is critical during a press conference to involve technical specialists to provide more expert and detailed background information.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Benchmarking yields a comparative advantage by allowing a company to imitate the best practices of others.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The pre-crisis response plan requires the appointment of a crisis leader. Describe the responsibilities of this person.
Q5) The best gauge to determine an organization's readiness to respond to a crisis is how it rates according to which of the following factors?
A) awareness and access to crisis management information
B) readiness for a quick response
C) effective communication plan in place
D) all of the answers are correct
Q6) Describe why a senior leader's physical presence is critical during a crisis.
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