International Business Leadership Test Bank
Course Introduction
International Business Leadership explores the skills, strategies, and cultural awareness required to lead effectively in a global business environment. The course covers leadership theories, cross-cultural communication, ethical decision-making, and the influence of global economic trends on organizational behavior. Students learn to navigate complex international markets, manage diverse teams, and develop adaptive strategies for managing global organizations. Emphasis is placed on practical case studies and real-world scenarios to prepare students for leadership roles in multinational corporations and dynamic international contexts.
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Effective Leadership International 5th Edition by Christopher F. Achua
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Chapter 1: Who Is a Leader?
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Q1) Mintzberg's ten managerial roles are an example of contingency leadership theory.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) List the ten managerial roles based on their three categories.
Answer: Leaders perform the interpersonal role when they act as figurehead, leader, and liaison. Leaders perform the informational role when they act as monitor, disseminator, and spokesperson. Leaders perform the decisional role when they act as entrepreneur, disturbance-handler, resource-allocator, and negotiator.
Q3) Figurehead is an interpersonal role.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) The overarching paradigm has shifted from management to leadership.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Leadership Ethics and Traits
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Q1) Does sensitivity to others mean that the leader does what the followers want to do?
Answer: No. Sensitivity to others does not mean that the leader does what the followers want to do. It means that the leader has empathy and understands the followers' point of view. However, if the leader realizes that the followers are wrong, the leader does what is best for the organizational unit.
Q2) Self-efficacy is the belief in your own capability to perform in a specific situation.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) If the leader typically is afraid to make decisions, is unassertive, and is self-blaming when things go wrong, the leader is displaying a:
A) Theory Y positive self-concept.
B) Theory Y negative self-concept.
C) Theory X positive self-concept.
D) Theory X negative self-concept.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Leadership Motivation and Behavior
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Q1) John really wants a promotion and believes that he has a high probability of earning the promotion if he works hard. Because a promotion is important to him, that performing well will result in a promotion, and because he believes he a good chance of earning the promotion, this is an example of
A) Equity theory
B) Expectancy theory
C) Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
D) Herzberg's Two Factor Theory
Answer: B
Q2) The primary reason people do what they do is to meet their needs or wants.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The process motivation theories are alike in that all focus on:
A) understanding how people choose behavior to fulfill their needs.
B) explaining and predicting behavior based on people's needs.
C) reinforcement of positive behaviors.
D) giving praise.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Contingency Theories in Leadership
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Q1) The continuum and path-goal leadership models are descriptive models, because users select the appropriate leadership style for a given situation based on their own judgment.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The normative leadership model is not popular with managers because it is not based on research.
A)True
B)False
Q3) When a leader sets difficult but achievable goals, expects followers to perform at their highest level, and rewards them for doing so, the leader is using a participative style.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Identify the contingency leadership model styles and variables.
Q5) List which leadership models are prescriptive and descriptive, and explain why they are classified as such.
Q6) Explain substitutes and neutralizers of leadership.
Q7) Is Theory Z still relevant today?
Q8) State the continuum leadership model styles and variables.
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Chapter 5: Influencing: Politics, Power, Negotiation, and Networking
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Q1) What is the difference between inspirational appeal and personal appeal influencing?
Q2) Discuss how power and politics are related.
Q3) Negotiation skills can be developed.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The number one indicator of job satisfaction today is the relationship you have with your:
A) manager(s).
B) peers.
C) clients.
D) all of the answers are correct
Q5) Coercion involves making rash threats.
A)True
B)False
Q6) How would you rate your networking skills? What will you do differently in the future to improve your networking skills?
Q8) Explain the differences between position power and personal power. Page 7
Q7) Write a one-minute self-sell to achieve your networking goal from Work Application 7.
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Chapter 6: Coaching, Communication, and Conflict Skills
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Q1) Which personality traits are associated with being closed to feedback?
Q2) A manager just gave a new task to an employee. The employee does not want to do the task, but says nothing to the manager and completes the task on time. The employee is using which conflict management style?
A) avoiding
B) accommodating
C) forcing
D) negotiating
E) collaborating
Q3) ____ is the process of verifying messages and determining if objectives are being met.
A) Paraphrasing
B) Listening
C) Feedback
D) Criticism
Q4) Are you really open to feedback-criticism from others at work? How can you improve on accepting criticism?
Q5) What is 360-degree feedback, and are many organizations using it?
Q6) List the steps in the oral message-sending process.
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Chapter 7: Followership and Leader-Member Exchange
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Q1) The concept of ____ is used to describe group members' social relationships within and outside their groups and how these relationships affect group effectiveness.
A) group interaction
B) social exchange
C) social capital
D) ingratiation
Q2) Ingratiation is the effort to appear supportive, appreciative, and respectful.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The quality of each dyadic relationship, according to LMX Theory, can be influenced by the combined efforts of one, follower behaviors and attributes, two, leader-follower perceptions and self-identities and three, situational factors.
A)True
B)False
Q4) List the four stages of development of the dyadic approach.
Q5) How do quality leader-member exchange relationships influence follower behavior?
Q6) Write your plan for improving your LMX relationship and followership.
Q7) Describe the main focus of team building from a Leader-Follower perspective.
Q8) List five things a leader should delegate.
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Chapter 8: Self-Managed Teams and Team Leadership
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Q1) Which one of the following is (are) characteristic(s) of effective teams?
A) A team charter developed by top management
B) A team charter developed by team members
C) Team members sharing the same goals
D) A high level of cohesion and independence among members
E) B and c
Q2) John is a member of a team whose members are dispersed throughout the country and gets most of its work done using e-mail and videoconferencing. John's team type is which of the following?
A) functional
B) cross-functional
C) virtual
D) self-managed
Q3) A manager is setting up a team with three of her employees to come up with ideas to increase productivity. The team type according to this example is which of the following?
A) group
B) functional team
C) cross-functional team
D) self-managed team
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Chapter 9: Transformational and Charismatic Leadership
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Q1) Mary-Margaret loves what she does. She likes the idea that her leadership is somehow contributing to society. She is constantly motivating her followers by showing them the impact their contribution has on the community. Which source of personal meaning does Mary-Margaret derive her motivation?
A) self-belief
B) legacy
C) selflessness
D) culture heritage and traditions
E) activist mind-set
F) faith and spirituality
G) personal interests
H) values
Q2) Describe how one can acquire charismatic qualities.
Q3) ____ leadership seeks to maintain stability within an organization through regular economic and social exchanges that achieve specific goals for both the leaders and their followers.
A) Transformational
B) Transactional
C) Servant
D) Charismatic
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Chapter 10: Leadership of Ethics, Diversity, and Culture
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Q1) All organizations have a culture.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The negative reactions that some workforce members receive from others because of personal characteristics or personality traits is:
A) known as stigmatization.
B) primarily the result of competitive organizational cultures.
C) more common in U.S. firms that in firms from other parts of the world.
D) all of the answers are correct
Q3) To assess ability to identify culture, have students complete Work Applications 1, 2, 3, and/or 5.
Q4) A(n) ____ culture has an internal strategic focus and operates in a stable environment.
A) cooperative
B) competitive
C) bureaucratic
D) adaptive
Q5) Identify and briefly describe the obstacles that make it hard to achieve diversity objectives.
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Chapter 11: Change Management and Strategic Leadership
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Q1) To overcome resistance to change, effective managers must think in terms of people actions rather than task actions.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Based on the business you selected to start in Skill-Development Exercise 1, as part of the strategy formulation, identify your business's core competencies. Be sure to answer the questions, "What will your business do better or different than your competitors? Why should someone do business with you rather than your competitors?"
Q3) Effective strategic leaders develop strategies that:
A) enhance value to the customers.
B) create synergistic opportunities.
C) build on the company's core competence.
D) all of the answers are correct
Q4) Give an example of when you were resistant to change. Be sure to identify your resistance by one of the seven reasons in Exhibit 11.3.
Q5) Describe the three phases of the change process.
Q6) What are the key elements of the strategic management process?
Q7) Describe the role of leadership in successful change implementation.
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Chapter 12: The Learning Organization and Crisis Leadership
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Q1) Crises come in many forms including succession crisis, product failures, human error disasters, and sexual harassment.
A)True
B)False
Q2) It is generally believed that within an hour of becoming aware that a crisis situation may exist, company officials must be prepared to issue an initial statement to the media and other key stakeholder groups.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Identify the benefits of pre-crisis planning.
Q4) One of the short-term benefits of developing an effective crisis communication system with employees is that the organization will have won over the confidence, loyalty, and commitment of the employees, who appreciate being involved and listened to during a crisis.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How important to an organization is internal (employee) communication during a crisis?
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Q6) How has the Internet affected the way crises are perceived in our society today?