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60. Destructive leaders such as Hitler and those who lead White supremacy groups gain followers because they prey on people's psychological need to ______.

D. feel chosen or special

28. Kellerman's typology identifies ______ levels of follower behaviors.

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14. The most recognized followership typology has been offered by ______.

Kelley

1. Studying followership helps to ______ our understanding of leadership.

complete

36. The typologies in the textbook that describe followers can best be thought of as ______.

A. a starting point for further research and theory building

17. Joshua is a member of a local nonprofit organization that works to beautify the community. He often has excuses for not coming to events and when he does come, he keeps to himself and complains to others around him about how he has a better way of doing things. According to Kelley's followership typology, Joshua can best be described as ______.

A. alienated

11. In Zaleznik's typology of followers, follower behaviors can be charted along which two scales?

A. dominant-submissive and active-passive

62. Jacki works as a corporate engagement specialist at an exclusive art gallery. She reports to Sean, the executive director who is a renowned artist and well-recognized in the community. For years, Sean been sexually harassing the women who work at the gallery. Jacki has suffered the treatment for a long time while promoting the gallery and increasing its funding. One day Sean's behavior goes beyond what Jacki can handle so, despite how uncomfortable she is with the risk, she reports him to the board. Jacki is overcoming which psychological factor that makes people susceptible to dysfunctional leaders?

A. fear of powerlessness

53. Which of the following is most accurate about followers?

A. followers can play a harmful role in organizations

48. An awards committee contacted Robin, the head coach of a collegiate sports team, to let her know she had been selected for a top honor due to the winning record her team posted this season. Robin told the committee she was uncomfortable accepting the award and instead asked if her whole team could be awarded the honor instead. Robin deeply understands which of Carsten and colleagues' perspectives on followers?

A. followers get the job done

3. The impact of followers on organizations ______.

A. has not been studied or scrutinized until recently

26. In Chaleff's model of followership, an individualist exhibits ______.

A. high challenge and low support for the leader

76. Followership research is about ______.

A. how and why followers respond to leaders

65. Followership as an area of study is considered ______.

A. in its early stages

22. The approach to followership offered by Chaleff ______.

A. is prescriptive

41. Which of the following leader characteristics is a variable in Uhl-Bein's theoretical model of followership?

A. leader power

37. There are commonalities among the major followership typologies such that all of the following are general follower "types" except ______.

A. leader-follower

57. Without much warning, Carla's parents sent Carla to a boarding school 400 miles away. Carla felt completely off balance and unsure in her new environment, knowing none of the other students or the norms of the school. She followed along with the rigorous work schedule, unreasonable rules, and constant criticism from teachers. Caroline was susceptible to this abusive environment due to which psychological factor outlined by Lipman-Bluman?

A. need for security and certainty

32. These types of followers, according to Kellerman, demonstrate a medium level of engagement in the group's goal and may support or oppose the leader.

A. participants

69. Followers can most accurately be described as ______.

A. people who have less power than the leader but are critical in the leadership process

23. Your co-worker, Michael, does just the minimal amount of work to keep his job. He neither supports nor challenges the boss. Chaleff would describe Michael's followership style as ______.

A. resource

43. Reversing the lens means ______.

A. studying followership by considering how followers impact leaders and organizations

29. This scholar used her experience as a political scientist to inform her thinking about the importance of followers.

B. Kellerman

15. One of the key differences between Zaleznik's and Kelley's approach to followership is ______.

B. Zaleznik wanted to explain the dynamics of conflicts while Kelley was highlighting followers' importance

38. Uhl-Bein and her colleagues were the first to propose ______.

B. a formal theory of followership

71. The fact that recent leadership literature has now focused more explicitly on followership than ever before is considered ______.

B. a strength of followership studies

75. The leader-centric orientation of our world is considered ______.

B. a weakness of followership studies

33. Cameron is on a five-person team at work tasked with creating a branding strategy for the company's newest product. He attends the team meetings and knows all about the features of the new product, but when it comes time for the team to make a decision Cameron claims he does not have an opinion. According to Kellerman's typology, Cameron is what type of follower?

B. bystander

42. A theory of followership discussed in the textbook explicitly includes which of the following elements in the model?

B. characteristics, behaviors, and outcomes

61. Brandon is a volunteer leader on his church's human relations committee which is charged to oversee staff job performance. Over the past year, Brandon has watched the senior pastor make selfish decisions, spread ill-will about the music leaders, and demand that education groups read only certain books. Brandon is very uncomfortable with the pastor's behaviors, but when it comes time for his committee to submit an annual evaluation of the senior pastor, Brandon gives the pastor a glowing report. Brandon is likely falling prey to which psychological factor that make him susceptible to dysfunctional leadership?

B. fear of ostracism and social death

51. You are in a staff meeting when your boss mentions an idea he's been thinking about for a while. You love his idea and feel it would benefit the organization. So you are the first staff member speak up and agree with the boss's strategy. You are demonstrating which of Carsten and colleagues' perspective on followers?

B. followers support the leader

9. In the relational-based approach to followership ______.

B. followership is tied to interpersonal behaviors

56. Lipman-Bluman argues that a person with a very strong need to have a reassuring authority figure in their life ______.

B. is vulnerable to following abusive leaders

66. One of the key benefits of studying followership is that ______.

B. it elevates the importance and value of followers

45. The followership approach that suggests leadership results from an interaction of leading and following is reminiscent of which major leadership approach?

B. leader-member exchange

67. The textbook makes the argument that ______.

B. the study of followership is just as important as the study of leadership

59. According to Lipman-Blumen, leaders who have dysfunctional personal characteristics and engage in destructive behaviors are known as ______ leaders.

B. toxic

80. Early research on followership resulted in a series of ______ which form the building blocks for additional theory building.

B. typologies

6. Like the concept of leadership, followership is presumed to have a/an ______ dimension as it relates to responsibility for the group.

moral

30. The main distinction between Kellerman's typology of followers and those of Zaleznik, Chaleff, and Kelley is ______.

C. Kellerman views followers along a single continuum while other scholars use two dimensions

73. From a relational-based perspective, the new followership literature encourages us to view leadership as ______.

C. a co-constructed process wherein followers and leaders share equally

2. The study of followership is meant to ______.

C. acknowledge the central role followers play in the leadership process

79. When applied to organizational life, knowledge about followership can help leaders by viewing each follower uniquely and adjusting the leadership style accordingly. Put this way, studies of followership are closely aligned with all of the following leadership theories except ______.

C. behavioral approach

63. In exclusive clubs and ritualistic groups like fraternities and sororities, followers can become vulnerable to bad leadership when they are unable to regulate their own personal need for ______.

C. belonging

40. Which of the following is not one of the four constructs proposed in Uhl-Bein's theory of followership?

C. environmental context

18. Lulu has recently been hired to lead the communications division of a regional bank. She calls a meeting of her management team and tells them about her leadership style. She describes how much she really values relationships and co-workers who are highly engaged, who bring a positive attitude, and who are not afraid to offer her new ideas and constructive criticisms. Using Kelley's typology, Lulu is asking her managers to be ______.

C. exemplary followers

50. Before Damon became a high school science teacher this year, he operated a large landscaping company. The school board was about to spend several thousand dollars for a new type of grass to be planted in an athletic field. Damon approached the chairperson of the school board and told her about the limitations of the recommended grass type and explained how the investment would be unwise. Damon was embodying which of Carsten and colleagues' perspective on followers?

C. followers challenge leaders

68. Followers will oftentimes become passive and inactive around toxic leaders because ______.

C. followers fear losing their security and sense of community with the group

55. Lipman-Bluman argues that unhealthy followership is caused by subordinates' needs to feel all of the following except ______.

C. goal-driven

13. A follower typed as compulsive, according to Zaleznik, could be described as ______.

C. having a high need to control and a low level of engagement

47. Carsten and colleagues offer several practical perspectives on followership intended to ______.

C. help people in organizations understand the positive aspects of being a follower

25. Sarah has a very visible job in her company. She supports her CEO, and wherever she goes she speaks highly of her boss, even when her boss has made bad decisions that have negatively impacted others. In Chaleff's model, Sarah would best be described as what type of follower?

C. implementer

77. Which of the following is not accurate about the study of followership?

C. it has a longer, richer history than the study of leadership

70. Categorizing followers into different types is helpful because ______.

C. it helps us understand the ways people act when they are in followership roles

58. Which of the following is not one of the psychological factors that contributes to follower susceptibility to toxic leaders, as outlined by Lipman-Blumen?

C. knowledge of what inspiring leadership should feel like

44. When one individual's following behaviors interact with another individual's leading behaviors to manifest leadership and its resulting outcomes, this approach is known as the ______.

C. leadership co-created process

7. The two types of perspectives that are used when studying followership are ______.

C. role-based and relational-based

20. Chaleff argues that followers ______.

C. serve a common purpose along with leaders

5. The definitions of leadership and followership in the textbook have elements in common. Which of the following is not a common element in the two definitions?

power

24. Chaleff's follower style called "partner" is most similar to ______.

D. Kelley's exemplary follower

34. President Obama brought on Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff due to his aggressive style and ability to be an agent of change. Emanuel supported Obama and his policies and oftentimes acted on his own accord to shake things up. During this time, Emanuel would best be classified under Kellerman's typology as what kind of follower?

D. activist

78. Training and development programs in followership are ______.

D. are not popular programs currently but are predicted to become more important

39. A recent conceptualization of followership proposed by Uhl-Bein and colleagues suggests that followership is a process that includes how followers and leaders interact to ______ leadership and its outcomes

D. construct

21. According to Chaleff, followers need to have the ______ to support and to challenge the leader.

D. courage

52. Marcia must complete a management trainee program at the financial company at which she was just hired. As part of the 18 week program, she shadows Ming who is an experienced project manager. Although Marcia is not directly responsible for the workload, she is inspired by Ming's style. Marcia is experiencing which benefit of being a follower, according to Carsten and colleagues?

D. followers learn from leaders

46. Which of the following is the best synopsis of the leadership co-created process model?

D. following and leading behaviors interact to create leadership which produces outcomes

19. Chaleff studied the role of followers because he was impacted as a young person when ______.

D. he learned about Hitler and the horrors of the World War II holocaust

10. Zaleznik's early typology of followership was designed to ______.

D. help followers become leaders themselves

64. The psychological need followers have for membership in the human community is most closely aligned with the notions of ______.

D. in-groups and out-groups in LMX

31. Monique is an immigrant to the United States who became a citizen two years ago. She does not participate in elections or keep track of current events. Kellerman would classify Monique as what type of follower?

D. isolate

4. Author Susan Cain suggests organizations need to downplay the glorification of ______ skills and that the world needs more ______.

D. leadership; followers

74. A weakness of the study of followership is ______.

D. little empirical research has been conducted on the topic

72. Some of the current followership literature challenges us to take leadership ______.

D. off its pedestal

27. Chaleff advocates that followers ought to do all of the following except ______.

D. protect the leader under all circumstances

49. According to Carsten and colleagues, proactive followers ______.

D. put the organization's goals ahead of the leader's goals

54. What is the name of the 2005 book by Jean Lipman-Blumen that explored the question 'why do people follow bad leaders'?

D. the allure of toxic leaders

8. Your marketing team decides to include Jared in a current project because he is known for always challenging the leader's ideas. This is an example of using which perspective of followership?

role-based

12. Zaleznik assumed that followers behaved in certain ways based on their responses to inner and sometimes unconscious tensions involving ______.

authority

16. Rafi is on a website development team. She is the teammate who helps to maintain the status quo but will support an idea once she sees that others are supporting it. According to Kelley's followership typology, Rafi is a follower best described as ______.

pragmatic

35. Juanita is deeply committed to the conservation of natural resources. She currently works for a national organization whose executive director is recommending to its 50,000 members that they bargain with lawmakers by agreeing to allow development on a very small protected forest area in Vermont in order to save their political resources to fight harder for the protection of a major national park in Colorado. Juanita disagrees with her executive director's strategy and rallies a few of the extreme members to camp out in the Vermont forest for days on end as a show of protest. Juanita is what Kellerman would call a ______ follower.

diehard