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Simone, a senior sales manager at ReadMe Inc., cares about developing the skills of her teammates and works beside them as a role model. In the context of the five fundamental archetypes of leadership, she most likely belongs to the

Teacher-Mentor archetype.

Which of the following fundamental archetypes of leadership is most likely to take risks and action in a crisis?

The Warrior-Knight archetype

Which of the following leadership styles are supervisors most likely to use when interacting with subordinates with poor technical skills?

a close, directive leadership style

Followers are highly likely to use ________ power to change their leader's behavior if they have a relatively high amount of referent power with their fellow coworkers.

coercive

The ability to control others through the fear of punishment or the loss of valued outcomes is known as

coercive power.

Kyra, a 16-year-old high school girl, is skeptical about her first day at a new school. She believes that nobody will talk to her and that her new teachers will be rude to her. She enters the class in a negative mood and speaks rudely to everyone. Eventually, she sees that her beliefs about the new school and teachers come true. Which of the following is most likely exemplified in this scenario?

self-fulfilling prophecy

Most early research on leadership was based on the assumption that leadership is a general personal trait expressed independently of the situation in which the leadership is manifested. This view is commonly known as

the heroic theory.

Which of the following definitions of leadership is fairly comprehensive and helpful?

the process of influencing an organized group toward accomplishing its goals

Which of the following is a phenomenon that refers to situations in which people feel themselves at risk of being judged by others holding negative images about them?

the stereotype threat

Which of the following statements is true of leaders with high levels of technical competence?

Followers are generally more satisfied with them rather than leaders with average levels of technical competence.

Which of the following statements is true about building effective relationships with superiors?

Followers should think of their own and their superior's success as interdependent.

Which of the following statements is true of coercive power?

It has the possibility to be used by followers to influence their leader's behavior.

Which of the following statements is true of a gaps-of-the-GAPS analysis?

It helps leadership practitioners identify high-priority development needs.

Which of the following statements is true of women in leadership positions?

Women had significantly lower well-being scores than men.

Leadership is most associated with words like

vision

Hall and Donnell reported findings of five separate studies involving over 12,000 managers that explored the relationship between managerial achievement and attitudes toward subordinates. Overall, they found that managers who strongly subscribed to Theory X beliefs

were highly likely to be in their lower-achieving group.

In the context of the new leader onboarding road map, which of the following steps most likely involves gathering benchmarking information from other organizations, meeting with key external customers and suppliers, and if appropriate, meeting with the former team leader?

the first two months

The tendency to overestimate the dispositional causes of behavior and underestimate the environmental causes when others fail is called

the fundamental attribution error.

Unlike the role approach, the constructionist approach

views leadership as combined acts of leading and following by different individuals.

What are the four qualities of leadership that engender trust according to Bennis and Goldsmith?

vision, empathy, consistency, and integrity

Which of the following statements is true of legitimate power?

It means that a leader has authority because she or he has been assigned a particular role in an organization.

Which of the following statements is most likely true of servant leaders?

They need to integrate present realities and future possibilities.

According to Zemke's four generations of workers, which of the following statements is most likely true of the Veterans?

They represent a wealth of lore and wisdom.

People in societies exhibiting a large degree of power distance

accept a hierarchical order in which everybody has a place and that needs no further justification.

Leadership development is enhanced when an experience involves three processes, which are

action, observation, and reflection.

According to Patricia O'Connell's webs of belief, which of the following web is the foundation for leaders to function in complex, uncertain, and changing environments where leadership solutions to challenges depend on mutual trust and respect among parties?

authenticity

Which of the following is most likely an outcome of regularly practicing a 10 percent stretch?

decreasing apprehensions about doing something new or different

Influence is best described as the

degree of actual change in a target person's values.

According to Zemke's four generations of workers, the Millennials

doubt the wisdom of traditional racial and sexual categorizing.

According to Robert Kelley's basic styles of followership, who among the following presents a consistent picture to both leaders and coworkers of being independent, innovative, and willing to stand up to superiors?

exemplary followers

According to Patricia O'Connell's webs of belief, which of the following webs of belief undergirds how one balances active participation in the events of one's life with alternating periods of observation, reflection, detachment, and rest?

flaneur

The interactional framework for analyzing leadership includes

followers, leaders, and situations.

Dr. Jonathon realizes that his patient is suffering from a highly contagious disease that is likely to pose a threat to the entire city. However, he is uncertain about sharing this information with city officials to protect his patient's privacy. In this scenario, which of the following ethical dilemmas does the doctor most likely face?

individual versus community

According to leadership researchers, leadership

is an interpersonal relation in which others comply because they want to.

Sean, a market manager at Pebble Deco Inc., asks his subordinate, Natalie, to work on a high-priority marketing campaign for the next quarter. She is hesitant to take up the assignment but is unable to refuse because of Sean's position and authority. In this scenario, Sean is most likely using

legitimizing tactics.

A personal relationship in which a more experienced mentor (usually someone two to four levels higher in an organization) acts as a guide, role model, and sponsor of a less experienced protégé is known as

mentoring

Craig, a marketing manager at HeliZone Inc., rarely takes initiative or suggests new ideas during project meetings. He does his work halfheartedly and needs to be guided by his manager on a regular basis. According to Robert Kelley's basic styles of followership, Craig most likely is a(n)

passive follower

Which of the following best describes ethics?

principles of right conduct

Jonathan, a front desk executive at Read Books Inc., handled 40 customer calls per day. He was then sent to a training program last month to improve his communication skills, which cost the organization $500. This month, Read Books observes that his growth is positive and substantial and that he is able to handle 60 customer calls per day. His productivity has increased by $700. This scenario most likely exemplifies

return on investment.

According to Patricia O'Connell's webs of belief, which of the following webs of belief is associated with respecting and caring for all creation, and honoring the needs and identities of everyone in every culture?

reverence