Applied Leadership
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Course Introduction
Applied Leadership explores practical approaches to effective leadership across various organizational and community settings. The course emphasizes core principles such as self-awareness, ethical decision-making, team building, conflict resolution, and adaptive leadership styles. Through a mix of case studies, experiential activities, and collaborative projects, students develop skills to motivate others, manage diverse groups, and implement strategic visions. Participants gain tools to assess and improve their own leadership capacity, preparing them to lead confidently in professional and civic environments.
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Leadership Theory Application and Skill Development 6th Edition by Lussier and Achua
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Chapter 1: Who Is a Leader and What Skills Do Leaders
Need?
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Q1) What are the three-pronged approach objectives to this book?
Answer: The three-pronged approach has the following objectives:
To teach the theory and concepts of leadership
To develop ability to apply leadership theory through critical thinking
To develop leadership skills in one's personal and professional life
Q2) Are the managers where you work(ed)effective at influencing their employees to bring about change? Explain.
Answer: In my experience, the managers where I work(ed) have been effective at influencing their employees to bring about change. This is because they have consistently communicated the vision and goals of the organization, actively listened to feedback from employees, and provided support and resources to help implement changes. Additionally, they have shown a willingness to adapt their own leadership style and processes in order to facilitate change within the team. Overall, their approach has fostered a culture of open communication and collaboration, which has been instrumental in successfully implementing changes within the organization.
Q3) The overarching paradigm has shifted from management to leadership.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Leadership Traits and Ethics
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Q1) Unethical behavior is more likely to occur in people who:
A)are open to new experiences.
B)work in an office setting.
C)are emotionally unstable and have an external locus of control.
D)have a strong moral development.
Answer: C
Q2) Research has confirmed that there is a limited number of confirmed and agreed upon traits this leaders have.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Personality profiles are used to categorize people as a means of predicting job success.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Why do people justify their unethical behavior?
Answer: People justify their unethical behavior to protect their self-concept,or to keep from having a guilty conscience or feeling remorse.
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Chapter 3: Leadership Behavior and Motivation
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Q1) The manager of a multinational firm operating in a developing country noticed that local employees had at length recently met their physiological and safety needs.According to the hierarchy of needs theory,the next level of motivation would be met by the promise of:
A)pay related to piecework.
B)heightened security.
C)vacation days.
D)a group picnic.
Answer: D
Q2) The Leadership Grid is based on two leadership dimensions called:
A)concern for production and concern for people.
B)concern for profit and concern for productivity.
C)autocratic and democratic.
D)job-centered and employee-centered.
Answer: A
Q3) Process motivation theories focus on explaining and predicting behavior based on people's needs.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Contingency Leadership Theories
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Q1) The quarter just ended and the sales team easily met the quota. The manager has strong position power and has decided to increase the quota to make the job more challenging.
Use Exhibit 4.7 to identify the appropriate leadership style for this situation.
A)Directive
B)Supportive
C)Participative
D)Achievement-oriented
Q2) Which leadership style would rate the leader a 2 on the leadership continuum model?
A)A leader who makes decisions and sells them to followers.
B)A leader who lets employees make ongoing decisions.
C)A leader who presents a decision which is subject to change based on input.
D)A leader who lets employees make decisions within set limits.
Q3) The participative style includes employee input into decision making.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is the primary difference between the contingency leadership model and the other leadership models (leadership,continuum,path-goal,and normative leadership)?
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Chapter 5: Influencing: Power, Politics, Networking, and Negotiation
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Q1) A manager made a poor decision,and Chris told his manager's boss about it. Identify the behavior in this situation as effective or ineffective political behavior.
A) effective
B) ineffective
Q2) Which one or two suggestions for developing political skills are the most relevant to you? Explain.
Q3) Select a present or past manager who has or had coercive power.Give a specific example of how he or she uses or used reward and punishment to achieve an objective.Overall,how effective is (or was)this manager at using rewards and punishment?
Q4) Position power is power is derived from top management,and it is delegated down the chain of command.
A)True
B)False
Q5) During the planning stage in the negotiation process,you should set four objectives: a minimum objective,a lower limit,a target objective,and an opening objective. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Communication, Coaching, and Conflict Skills
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Q1) In a loud,angry voice: "What are you doing?" Identify if this is criticism or coaching feedback. If criticism,write a coaching feedback statement to replace it.If coaching feedback,tell why it might be effective.
A)criticism
B)coaching feedback
Q2) You're late and on your way to an important meeting. As you leave,at the other end of the work area you see one of your employees goofing off instead of working. Which is the appropriate conflict management style for this conflict situation?
A)avoiding
B)accommodating
C)forcing
D)negotiating
E)collaborating
Q3) Select a present or past manager.Which conflict management style did that manager use most often? Explain by giving a typical example.Which one of the five conflict management styles do you tend to use most often.
Q4) Are all managers mentors?
Q5) Describe the difference between criticism and coaching feedback.
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Chapter 7: Leader-Member Exchange and Followership
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Q1) Dyadic refers to the individualized relationship between a leader and each follower in a work unit.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The higher the quality of an LMX relationship:
A)the higher the performance of the organization.
B)the more successful the manager.
C)the more resources the follower receives.
D)the greater the dissatisfaction of followers.
Q3) In your opinion,can a leader maintain a personal friendship with some members of his or her work group or team without creating the perception of in-groups (those in his or her social circle)and out-groups (those outside his or her social circle)?
Q4) You can delegate responsibility and accountability,but not authority. A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe an obstacle to delegation,or sign of delegating too little,that you have observed on the job.
Q6) As a leader,how will you motivate the alienated follower?
Q7) Briefly describe the three factors than can enhance a follower's influence.
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Chapter 8: Team Leadership and Self-Managed Teams
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Q1) The team members are not taking our new self-directed status seriously,because they believe SMTs are just the latest fad and those in charge will drop it for the next hot topic.
Identify which guideline is implied by this statement.
A)top management support and commitment
B)specific goals and incentives
C)SMT Champion
D)adequate and necessary resources
E)team composition
F)matching culture and structure
G)adequate team training time
Q2) Groupthink happens when the team values getting along so much that dissenting views are suppressed in favor of consensus.
A)True
B)False
Q3) It is more likely the case that in a group,the typical group member mentality is "what's in it for me."
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Charismatic and Transformational Leadership
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Q1) Explain the four stages of the transformation process.
Q2) Bass and Avilio have proposed that transformational leadership is composed of four behavior dimensions,the 4 "I"s of idealized influence,inspirational motivation,individual consideration,and intellectual stimulation.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Charismatic and transformational leaders tend to have a high risk orientation.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Charismatic leaders are most often likely to use a(n)____ power base.
A)relational
B)coercive
C)positional
D)emotional
Q5) Transactional leaders seeks to maintain stability within an organization through regular exchanges,achieving specific goals along the way.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Distinguish between charismatic and transformational leadership.
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Chapter 10: Leadership of Culture, Ethics, and Diversity
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Q1) All organizations have a culture.
A)True
B)False
Q2) _________ emphasizes a transparent and high-quality exchange relationship between leaders and followers,allowing for the formation of positive leader-member exchange relationships.
A)Authentic leadership
B)Adaptive leadership
C)Diversity leaders
D)Ethnocentrism leadership
Q3) Though there is no one best organizational culture,the ideal culture is:
A)a culture that naturally evolves.
B)a culture that supports the organization's mission and strategy.
C)a culture that everyone can live with.
D)a culture dictated by top management.
Q4) ____ is the inclusion of all groups at all levels in an organization.
A)Ethnocentrism
B)The glass ceiling
C)Diversity
D)Group dynamics
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Chapter 11: Strategic Leadership and Change Management
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Q1) Core competencies that have the best chance of sustaining the company's competitive advantage have certain characteristics. Which of the following is not one of those characteristics?
A)Unique or distinctive.
B)Difficult to copy.
C)Adequately funded and supported by top management.
D)Not easily substitutable.
Q2) Learning anxiety is the feeling that unless an organization makes a change,it is going to be out of business or fail to achieve some important goals.
A)True
B)False
Q3) To overcome resistance to change,effective managers must think in terms of the cognitive,emotional and behavioral states of members.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Identify the major reasons for resisting change.
Q5) Discuss the role of strategic leadership in the strategic management process.
Q6) The essence of the strategic management process is adapting to change.Discuss.
Q7) Discuss some of the recommendations for minimizing resistance to change.
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Chapter 12: Crisis Leadership and the Learning Organization
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Q1) When using the five-step crisis risk assessment model,the information gathered during completion of the risk assessment and ranking step is used as the basis for launching the third step of the model,which is risk management.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The encouragement of systems thinking:
A)is a task of leaders who seek to enhance organizational learning.
B)has the best results in traditional organizations.
C)was a driving force in the 1980s, but has been largely discarded in favor of specialized thinking.
D)increases efficiency, but appears to deter creativity.
Q3) Briefly explain what a crisis management plan of action entails.
Q4) A press kit is a package of information about a company,including names and pictures of its executives,a fact sheet,and key milestones in the company's history.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Pre-crisis planning is about asking and answering three critical questions. What are they?
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