MGT 440 MSU Exam 2

Which of the following is a type of culture that has roots in a phrase that means "temporary or specialized"?

Adhocracy Culture

According to the GLOBE (Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness), which of the following behaviors is culturally contingent?

Ambitious

According to Hogan and Warrenfelz, competencies concerned with analyzing issues, making decisions, and strategic thinking fall into the _____ category.

Briskness skills

Which of the following individuals are good at building teams and getting results through others?

Competent Managers

The information age organization operates with integrated business processes that cut across traditional business functions. This concerns which operating assumption underlying the information age?

Cross functions

According to the GLOBE (Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness) study, which of the following is universally viewed as a positive leader attribute and behavior?

Decisive

The leadership competency of helping a group or community recognize and define its opportunities and issues in ways that result in effective action is known as

Framing

Community leaders are most likely to

Have fewer resources than most other leaders

Craig, a high school student, wakes up early on a Sunday morning and makes his mother's favorite chocolate cake and butterscotch cookies. He wants to seek permission for a week-long trekking trip and is sure that the cake and cookies will get his mother in a good mood. This scenario most likely exemplifies

Ingratiation

According to research, between 50 and 90 percent of all new businesses fail within five years because of

Managerial incompetence

Which of the following is the most important situational factor associated with charismatic leadership?

Presence or absence of a crisis

The _____ component of the change model is where a change initiative becomes tangible and actionable because it consists of the development and execution of the change plan.

Process

In the _____ stage of coping with change, you start to question whether the company really knew what it was doing by letting you go and perhaps rationalize that they will probably be calling you back.

Rejection

Which of the following leadership questionnaires measured the extent to which leaders in industrial settings exhibited consideration and initiating structure behaviors?

SBDQ

In the context of the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ), which of the following is assessed by the five transformational leadership factors?

The degree to which a leader instills pride in others

In the context of Bass's theory of transformational and transactional leadership, which of the following statements is true of transformational leaders?

The posses impression management skills

In the context of dark-side personality traits, which of the following is most likely true of leaders who are dutiful?

These leaders lack spines and are unwilling to refuse unrealistic requests

In the context of leadership motivation, which of the following statements is true of successful leaders?

They move through the ranks quickly and are motivated by promotion

Which of the following is a key component to the model (M) variable in Beer's model for organizational change?

environmental scanning

Identify a true statement about socialized power.

it often involves an empowering rather than an autocratic style of management and leadership

An organization that has all its people in one location is typically _____ than an organization that is dispersed around the country or around the world.

less spatially complex

Which of the following is an intrinsic reward?

personal growth

A leader who has developed close interpersonal relationships with followers generally uses his or her __________ power to influence them.

referent

Which of the following terms is defined as the degree to which a person accomplishing a task receives information about performance from performing the task itself?

task feedback

In the context of managerial incompetence, which of the following is used to determine the level of incompetence among people in positions of authority?

the Dr. Gordy test