MGT375: Chapter 16, 18, 9
True or False: Stress can only have negative consequences
False
True or False: Situational theories propose that leader styles should match the situation at hand.
True
True or False: Transactional leadership focuses on clarifying employees' role and task requirements and providing followers with positive and negative rewards contingent on performance.
True
True or False: According to the Behavioral Styles theory, leaders are born, not made.
False
True or False: Transactional leaders engage in inspirational motivation, idealized influence, individualized consideration, and intellectual stimulation.
False
True or False: According to Fiedler's contingency model the three dimensions of situational control are leader-member relations, task structure, and position power
True
True or False: According to Fiedler's contingency model, position power refers to the degree to which the leader has formal power to reward or punish employees.
True
True or False: According to the full-range theory of leadership, laissez-faire leadership is the worst type of leadership.
True
True or False: According to the systems model of change, any change, no matter how large or small, has a cascading effect throughout an organization.
True
True or False: Stress triggers the fight-or-flight response.
True
True or False: Control strategy consists of using methods such as relaxation, meditation, medication, or exercise to manage the symptoms of occupational stress.
False
True or False: In Lewin's change model, the unfreezing stage involves providing employees with new information, new behavioral models, or new ways of looking at things.
False
True or False: Initiating structure involves leader behavior associated with creating mutual respect or trust and focuses on a concern for group members' needs and desires.
False
True or False: Among the three types of change, adaptive change is lowest in complexity, cost, and uncertainty
True
True or False: Consideration involves leader behavior associated with creating mutual respect or trust and focuses on a concern for group members' needs and desires.
True
True or False: Hardiness represents a collection of personality characteristics including commitment, locus of control, and challenge.
True
True or False: Organizational change is more likely to succeed when top management is truly committed to the change process and the desired goals of the change program
True
True or False: The implicit leadership theory is based on the idea that people have beliefs about how leaders should behave and what they should do for their followers.
True
True or False: The systems model of change is helpful as a diagnostic framework to determine the causes of an organizational problem and to propose solutions
True
True or False: The transformational approach is the most popular perspective for studying leadership today
True
True or False: Inspirational motivation, one of the sets of leadership behaviors, involves behaviors that encourage employees to question the status quo and to seek innovative and creative solutions to organizational problems.
False
True or False: Resilience to change is a composite personal characteristic reflecting low self-esteem, pessimism, and an external locus of control
False
True or False: Resistance to change is an emotional/behavioral response to real or imagined threats to an established work routine.
True
True or False: Stress that is positive or produces a positive outcome is referred to as eustress.
True
True or False: Transformational leaders engender trust, seek to develop leadership in others, exhibit self-sacrifice and serve as moral agents, focusing themselves and followers on objectives that transcend the more immediate needs of the work group.
True
