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Leaders power to provide pay raises and promotion is
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a. Reward power
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Mary has managed mail room for 2 years—strong leadership talent (intelligent, sociable, determination). What approach are they using to asses her?
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a. Trait approach
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Trait approach focuses on:
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a. Role of the leader
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Which scholar created the leadership grid
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a. Blake and mouton
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Using contingency theory in a highly structured task there would be:
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a. Both high and low LPC leaders could perform it effectively
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This theory suggests that leaders should not expect to be effective in every situation
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a. Contingency theory
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Who first introduced the theory of situational leadership
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a. Hersey and Blanchard
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Which type of leadership is most similar to transformational leadership
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a. Charismatic
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Giving an employee a merit-based pay raise is an example of
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a. Distributive justice
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Technical skills grow in importance as one moves up the managerial hierarchy?
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a. False
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In the leadership grid the 9-9 type of leader prefers the middle ground and solos preferences
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a. False—that's middle of the road
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You are told you need to work weekends, your supervisor gives you a raise because of it. What type of power is your supervisor demonstrating?
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a. Reward power
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Emotional intelligence includes all of the following except
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a. Reasoning logically
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Jim is the manager of a Wendy's, he's concerned with efficiency and keeping people happy
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a. High, high style leader
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Situational approach requires leaders to have high degree of control over subordinates
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a. False
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Not a factor of transformational leadership
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a. Contingent reward
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Utilitarianism is concern with
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a. Creating the greatest good for the greatest number
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LMX (leader-member exchange) challenged the assumption that leaders treat followers in a collective way using an average leadership stlye
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a. True
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Defining authentic leadership as something that grows throughout a persons' lifetime and can be triggered by major life events
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a. Developmental
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The following is not a part of Terry's action wheel
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a. Skill set
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Critical life events effect authentic leadership because
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a. They act as a catalyst for change
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Ethical theories fall within two broad domains
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a. Conduct and character
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Path-goal theory predicts that subordinates who have strong needs for affiliation prefer directive leadership
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a. False—they become very dependent on the leader
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You enjoy working for your boss and look to her as a role model—more than willing to work hard for organization because of that relationship
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a. Personal power (referent power is part of that)
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In the skills model, crystalized knowledge refers to
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a. Intellectual ability acquired overtime
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Which of the following behaviors is not associated with an opportunistic leadership style
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a. Leader stresses the importance of social needs
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It is accurate to say that situational leadership is primarily
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a. Prescriptive—it prescribes the way you should act
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Contingency theory is concerned with _____ and ______
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a. Styles and situations
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One of the advantages of trait approach is that it provides a fairly strong set of definitive leadership traits that are needed to be successful
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a. False—can't agree with what they are
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Psudeo-transformational leadership:
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a. Focuses on the leaders' own interests rather than the interests of followers
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Which of the following is not one of the four key positive psychological factors that have an impact on authentic leaders
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a. Gregariousness
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Environmental influences are factors outside of the leader's competenices, characteristics, etc.
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a. True
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Contingency theory suggests that a leader's style is more important than the leadership context
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a. False
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According to Bass, charisma is a necessary, but not sufficient condition for transformational leadership
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a. True
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In the parent ego state thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, are a result of current happenings
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a. False
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A subordinate that acts in a dependant manner expects the leader to act in a child or parent state
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a. False
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The research in female and male leadership has tended to focus on difference between men and women
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a. True
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One of the GLOBE cultural dimensions, power distance is defined as the degree to which members of the group desire strategic physical distance from others
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a. False—it's about how close you are to their source of power
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Studies have shown that men are less effective than women when they supervise a high proportion of male subordinates
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a. False—more effective when they supervise men
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Women are less likely than men to negotiate for what they want
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a. True
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Concern about the ethics of leaders is a relatively recent phenomenon
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a. False—it's been there forever
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According to contingency theory, no leader can be expected to perform well in every situation
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a. True
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Servant leadership is most effective when subordinates have an external locus of control
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false--can't be effective when people think theyhave no control over things
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There is no single accepted definition of authentic leadership
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true
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What type of power did bill gates have when he and paul allen started Microsoft
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a. Expert
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Of the big 5 personality factors, which is the most strongly associated with leadership
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a. Extraversion
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The trait approach is criticized for its failure to account
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a. Situations
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___ are what leaders can accomplish where ___are what leaders are
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a. Skills and traits
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Allowing a group of employees to run the daily operations while the leader stays out unless needed
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a. Supporting
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Path-goal theory could be best described as
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a. Motivation (NOT TRANSFORMATIONAL)
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Path goal theory is about how leaders ____ subordinates to accomplish ____
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a. Motivate to accomplish designated goals
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During the stranger phase of leadership making, roles are
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a. Scripted
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Which theory of leadership suggests that it's important to recognize ingroups and outgroups
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LMX
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Which type of leadership gives no feedback
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a. Laissez fare
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Servant leadership works best when
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a. Leaders are altruistic and have strong motivation to help others
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Cooses and posner's five practices to help leaders get extraordinary things done includes all of the following but
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a. Reward excellent performance
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The opposite of servant leadership is
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a. Coercive leadership
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The psychodynamic approach is criticized for all of the following except
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a. It is not universal in scope—you actually can apply it everywhere
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According to the text, which of the following is not a dimension when assessing personality
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a. Sensing and inferring
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According to the anglo culture study, the least desirable leader behavior is
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a. Self-protective
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The tendency to put one's own group at the center of observations is known as
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a. Ethnocentrism—desire or tendency to put your cultural group at the center
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How many cultural dimensions did the GLOBE research study identify
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9
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According to LMX, which of the following is false
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a. The leader expects more from the out-group
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Followers with an internal locus of control believe...
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We are in charge of the events that occur in our own lives
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The three definitions of authentic leadership are
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Intrapersonal, developmental, and interpersonal
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Which type of leadership is most similar to transformational leadership?
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Charismatic
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Which three antecedent (comes before) conditions have an impact on servant leadership?
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context and culture, leader attributes, follower receptivity
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Freud's personality types include all of the following except:
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Developmental
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The psychodynamic approach has its roots in freud and jung
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True
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Which of the following leadership traits or skills are more likely to belong to men than women?
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Authoritative
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Which of the following statements is false?
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Organizations with women heading them have less financial success
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Which of the following best describes situational leadership?
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Different situations demand different types of leadership
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As the followers perceptions of their own abilities and competence increases
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The need for directive leadership goes down
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The intra-personal (within an individual) definition of authentic leadership states that leadership
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Grows out of the life story of the leader
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A definition of culture does not include
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Individual qualities
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Servant leadership can be effective in any organizational context
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False
