Leadership & Politics

Jim provides employees the opportunity to self-manage and make decisions over their own work processes. His leadership style is best described as: a. Superleadership b. Transactional Leadership c. Directive Leadership d. Transformational Leadership

A. Superleadership

________ leaders focus on the creation of reward contingencies and exchange relationships that result in a calculative compliance on the part of followers, while __________ leaders create and communicate a higher-level vision in a charismatic way that elicits an emotional response and commitment from the followers. a. transactional, transformational b. directive, empowering c. transformational, transactional d. empowering, directive

A. transactional, transformational

Power is the ability to coerce. True/ False

False

The degree to which someone is able to exert influence depends on the type of authority bestowed upon the leader. True/ False

False

There are two types of positional power - referent and expert. True/False.

False

A Manager with a score of a (9, 1) on the Managerial Grid would be categorized as: a. Authority- Compliance Management b. Tea Management c. Impoverished Management d. Country Club Management

a. Authority-Compliance Management

Task-oriented behaviors are also called a. consideration b. laissez-faire c. initiating structure d. transformational leadership

a. consideration

Which of the following is NOT a "Great Man" train? a. dominance b. compassion c. intelligence d. masculinity

a. dominance

Which of the following powers is NOT a type of positional power? a. expert b. reward c. legitimate d. coercive e. all of the answers are types of positional power

a. expert

Additional factors that were found to predispose groups to groupthink included all except a. practice playing the "devils advocate" b. highly insulated group with restrained access to outside ideas c. external pressure d. history of recent setbacks e. stressful decision-making context

a. practice playing the "devils advocate"

__________ power is how a manager influences people through the threat of or actual negative consequences for undesired actions. a. expert b. coercive c. legitimate d. referent

b. coercive

Examples provided in the video of where groupthink can emerge include all except a. friendship cliques b. diverse groups c. executive committees d. athletic teams e. work groups

b. diverse groups

In democratic decision making... a. leaders make the decision alone without necessarily involving employees in the decision-making process b. employees participate in the making of the decision c. the leader provides minimum guidance and involvement in the decision. d. leaders leave employees alone to make decisions.

b. employees participate in the making of the decision.

Which of the following statements regarding leadership member exchange relationships is incorrect? a. a problem with a low-quality exchange relationship is that employees may not have access to a positive work environment. b. all employees would like to have positive relationship with their leader. c. If a leader is unethical, employees may not want to have a relationship so as not to suffer from guilt by association. d. When high LMX employees succeed, leaders credit the efforts they put forward and their high level abilities

c. If a leader is unethical, employees may not want to have a relationship so as not to suffer from guilt by association.

According to the video, a consequence of high group cohesiveness is the tendency to strive for a. expendency b. objectivity c. agreement d. rationality c. disagreement

c. agreement

A directive leader tends to rely primarily on which of the following sources of power? a. expert b. referent c. legitimate d. personal

c. legitimate

According to the video and our discussion in class, a cohesive group is one whose members are very _______ in their feeling toward the group and are strongly motivated to retain their _______ the group. a. negative, distance from b. ambivalent, neutrality within c. positive, membership in d. objective, scientific status within

c. positive, membership in

Which of the following is not a key characteristic of authentic leaders? a. they are not afraid to act the way they are b. they understand where they are from c. they have no set of priorities d. they have high levels of personal integrity

c. they have no set of priorities

Which of the studies found that leaders have two dominant sets of behaviors that predict success-consideration and initiating structure. a. The Ohio State Studies b. None of the above c. The Managerial Grid d. The University of Michigan Studies

d. The University of Michigan Studies

A style of leadership that includes behaviors that encourage positive psychological capacities, an ethical climate, greater self-awareness, an internalized moral perspective, a balanced processing of information, and self-development is known as: a. superleadership b. shared leadership c. servant leadership d. authentic leadership

d. authentic leadership

Which type of leadership employs position power or legitimate power to exert influence over others? a. transactional b. transformational c. empowering d. directive

d. directive

According to the video, a cohesive group is one whose members are very ______ in their feeling toward the group and are strongly motivated to retain their ____ the group a. ambivalent, neutrality within b. negative, distance from c. objective, scientific status within d. positive, member in

d. positive, member in

A leader who is _________________, according to the Michigan Studies, is characterized by directive, structural and task oriented behaviors. He or she makes sure that the work gets done, subordinates perform their jobs in an acceptable fashion, and that the organization is efficient. a. autocratic structure-oriented b. employee-oriented c. consideration-oriented d. production-oriented

d. production-oriented

The earliest approach to the study of leadership was a. transactional leadership b. transformational leadership c. behavioral leadership d. trait approach

d. trait approach

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic that authentic leadership encourages? a. self- awareness b. self- development c. positive psychological capacities d. internalized moral perspective e. all of the above

e. all of the above