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Question #1

______ focuses on clarifying employees’ roles and task requirements and providing rewards and punishments contingent on performance.

A. Participative management

B. Empowering leadership

C. Transactional leadership

D. Laissez-faire leadership

E. Servant leadership

Question #2

In the ______ leadership model, a leader makes desirable rewards available in the workplace and clarifies how followers can obtain them.

A. path-goal

B. behavioral

C. transformational

D. relationship-oriented

E. passive

Question #3

Which of the following is NOT a key quality displayed by humble leaders?

A. low self-focus

B. appreciation of the greater good

C. appreciation of others

D. openness to feedback

E. low self-awareness

Question #4

Which of the following statements is NOT a practical implication of the behavioral approaches to leadership?

A. A leader’s behavior is more important than his or her traits.

B. It is important to train managers on the various forms of task leadership.

C. It is important to train managers on the various forms of relationship leadership.

D. How effective a particular leadership behavior is depends on the situation at hand.

E. There is one best style of leadership.

Question #5

__________ power, which all managers have, is power that results from a manager’s authority to offer praise and pay raises, even promotions to his or her subordinates.

A. Referent

B. Coercive

C. Expert

D. Reward

E. Legitimate

Question #6

Which of the following is NOT one of the eight leadership styles proposed by the revised path-goal theory?

A. value-based

B. path-goal clarifying

C. servant leadership

D. representation and networking

E. work facilitation

Question #7

______ leadership helps employees pursue organizational goals over self-interests.

A. Service

B. Transactional

C. Transformational

D. Shared

E. Laissez-faire

Question #8

______ leaders focus on providing increased service to others—meeting the goals of both followers and the organization—rather than to themselves.

A. Transactional

B. Servant

C. Support

D. LMX

E. Shared

Question #9

Medical knowledge possessed by doctors results in their ______ power.

A. referent

B. legitimate

C. reward

D. expert

E. coercive

Question #10

Which negative trait of some leaders is marked by a cynical view of human nature that condones opportunistic and unethical ways of manipulating people, putting results over principles?

A. psychopathy

B. sociopathy

C. glad-handing

D. Machiavellianism

E. narcissism

Question #11

_______ is NOT a relationship-oriented behavior.

A. Servant leadership

B. Empowering leadership

C. Political maneuvering

D. Consideration

E. Ethical leadership

Question #12

Which of the following is FALSE about the leader–member exchange (LMX) model of leadership?

A. The quality of the relationship between managers and subordinates is related to turnover.

B. The LMX model emphasizes that leaders have different sorts of relationships with different subordinates.

C. The LMX model looks at the quality of relationships between managers and subordinates.

D. The LMX focuses only on the behaviors or traits of leaders.

E. The LMX model assumes each manager–subordinate relationship is unique.

Question #13

Which of the following is considered a “soft” tactic used to influence others?

A. legitimating tactics

B. pressure tactics

C. coalition tactics

D. exchange tactics

E. ingratiating tactics

Question #14

Fiedler’s contingency leadership model argues that leadership behaviors should be determined by position power only.

A. True

B. False

Question #15

Cynthia is a manager who has poor leader–member relations with her employees who perform unambiguous, easily understood tasks. She should use a task-oriented leadership style.

A. False

B. True

Question #16

The best leaders display both transactional and transformational leadership styles.

A. True

B. False

Question #17

Leadership is the ability to marshal human, informational, and other resources to get something done.

A. True

B. False

Question #18

Narcissism is a key positive leadership trait.

A. True

B. False

Question #19

The primary purpose of relationship-oriented leadership behavior is to ensure that people, equipment, and other resources are used in an efficient way to accomplish the mission of a group or organization.

A. False

B. True

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