Leadership in Organizations Review Questions
Course Introduction
Leadership in Organizations explores the fundamental theories, principles, and practices of effective leadership within contemporary organizational settings. The course examines various leadership styles, the dynamics of power and influence, and the skills required to motivate individuals and teams towards achieving organizational objectives. Students will analyze real-world case studies, assess their own leadership capabilities, and develop strategies for ethical and inclusive leadership. Emphasis is placed on communication, decision-making, conflict management, and leading through change in diverse and global environments.
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Leadership Enhancing the Lessons of Experience 6th Edition by Richard L. Hughes
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Chapter 1: Leadership Is Everyones Business
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Q1) Which of the following statements is incorrect?
A)The idea of "one-man leadership" is a contradiction in terms
B)Leadership is a social influence process shared among all members of a group
C)Followers are part of the leadership process
D)Leadership is restricted to the influence exerted by someone in a particular role
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following statements concerning the rational and emotional aspects of leadership is false?
A)Leaders can use rational techniques and/or emotional appeals in order to influence followers
B)Leadership includes actions and influences based only on reason and logic
C)Aroused feelings can be used either positively or negatively
D)Good leadership involves touching others' feelings
Answer: B
Q3) If we want to develop a solid,logical approach to leadership,consideration of emotions should have no role.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Leadership Involves an Interaction Between the
Leader, the Followers, and the Situation
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Q1) Finding solutions to problems which involve others' values requires the active engagement of their hearts and minds not just the leader's.This requires
A)Authoritarian leadership
B)Influential leadership
C)Adaptive leadership
D)Participative leadership
Answer: C
Q2) A leader may be given more latitude as a newcomer than as someone who is widely respected for a history of accomplishment.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Personality traits,skills and values are important factors in analyzing followers and leaders.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Leadership Is Developed Through Education and Experience
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Q1) Define single-loop learning.
Answer: Single-loop learning exists when learners seek relatively little feedback that significantly confronts their fundamental ideas or actions.There is relatively little public testing of ideas against valid information.
Q2) Perceptual set increases the selectivity in what people observe.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Mastering _____ can be thought of as learning how to learn.
A)Double-loop learning
B)Single-loop learning
C)Deutero-learning
D)Triple-loop learning
Answer: A
Q4) Define double-loop learning.
Answer: Double-loop learning involves a willingness to confront one's own views and an invitation to others to do so,too.It is associated with a view that openness to information and power sharing with others can lead to better recognition and definition of problems,improved communication and increased decision-making effectiveness.
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Chapter 4: Assessing Leadership and Measuring Its Effects
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Q1) Minority female managers make only 57 percent of the earnings of their white male counterparts in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Given the common measures of successful and unsuccessful leadership,what measures would you use and how would you collect the data to determine the best and worst cruise ship captains for Carnival Cruise Lines?
Q3) An in-depth examination of a leader's behavior in a particular set of circumstances is a(n)
A)Case study
B)Correlational study
C)Experiment
D)Nomothetic study
Q4) The dependent variable is usually some measure of leadership effectiveness,such as subordinates' satisfaction ratings.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain the Dr Gordy test.
Q6) Describe the differences between correlational studies and experiments.
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Chapter 5: Power and Influence
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Q1) Influence tactics refer to one person's actual behaviors designed to change another person's attitudes,beliefs,values or behaviors.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Write a short note on the different influence tactics as assessed by the IBQ.
Q3) Define and distinguish between power,influence and influence tactics.
Q4) The need for power has been found to be positively related to all the following leadership effectiveness criteria,except
A)Success of nontechnical managers
B)Success of technical managers
C)Managers' performance ratings
D)Managers' promotion rates
Q5) A leader is in the best position to use "hard" influence tactics such as legitimizing and pressure tactics after developing a strong base of referent power.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Define and explain the Thematic Apperception Test with examples.
Q7) Write a short note on expert power with examples.
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Chapter 6: Leadership and Values
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Q1) Nexters are
A)An artist generation
B)A hero generation
C)A nomad generation
D)A prophet generation
Q2) Boomers in middle age are
A)A prophet generation
B)A hero generation
C)A nomad generation
D)An artist generation
Q3) These generational archetypes are born when social idealism and spiritual agendas among the young foster a revolt against the established institutional order.
A)Prophet generations
B)Nomad generations
C)Hero generations
D)Artist generations
Q4) Illustrate how different generational archetypes interact with each other.
Q5) What are the seven dilemmas on the basis of which cultural differences are analyzed?
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Chapter 7: Leadership Traits
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Q1) Creative people are most likely to focus on
A)The need to meet deadlines
B)Impressing others
C)Making money
D)Solving the problem at hand
Q2) Students in a school for the mentally challenged did very poorly on standardized tests yet consistently found ways to defeat the school's elaborate security system.In this situation the students possessed a relatively high level of
A)Social intelligence
B)Analytic intelligence
C)Practical intelligence
D)Creative intelligence
Q3) Leaders and followers who possess higher levels of this type of intelligence tend to be quick learners and have the ability to make accurate deductions,assumptions and inferences with relatively unfamiliar information.
A)Analytic intelligence
B)Practical intelligence
C)Creative intelligence
D)Social intelligence
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Chapter 8: Leadership Behavior
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Q1) Personality traits,values or intelligence must be inferred from behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In this step of informal coaching,leaders determine what drives their followers and where they want to go with their careers.
A)Forging a partnership
B)Inspire commitment
C)Growing skills
D)Promote persistence
Q3) Which of the following underlies the derailment pattern of the inability of managers to lead and build a team?
A)The presence of dark side traits
B)Inadequate distribution channels
C)Poor decisions concerning which products to develop
D)Lying about business results
Q4) White peers and subordinates generally gave about the same level of ratings for both black and white peers and bosses.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Motivation, Satisfaction, and Performance
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Q1) What is the motivational strategy of followers with strong scientific values?
A)They enjoy analyzing data to get at the truth
B)The more they are paid,the more they are motivated to work
C)They are motivated when they work in organizations that have strong customs
D)They believe fame,visibility and publicity are important
Q2) Fairness in the workplace makes intuitive sense and is present in many organizations.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to the two-factor theory,which of these is a hygiene factor?
A)Job security
B)Achievement
C)Responsibility
D)Advancement and growth
Q4) This occurs when leaders articulate high expectations for followers.
A)Hawthorne effect
B)Pygmalion effect
C)Placebo effect
D)Hierarchy effect
Q5) Compare and contrast performance and effectiveness.
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Chapter 10: Groups, Teams, and Their Leadership
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Q1) Leaders with a large span of control tend to display more consideration and use more personal approaches when influencing followers.
A)True
B)False
Q2) This role conflict occurs when a store manager encourages a salesperson to mislead customers about the quality of the store's products when this behavior is inconsistent with the salesperson's values and beliefs.
A)Interrole conflict
B)Intrasender role conflict
C)Intersender role conflict
D)Person-role conflict
Q3) Ollieism occurs when people in a highly cohesive group often become more concerned with striving for unanimity than in objectively appraising different courses of action.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Design is often the most frequently omitted step in teamwork.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Characteristics of the Situation
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Q1) Competitive advantage in one generation of a product's life is no guarantee of success for future generations of that product.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Leaders at higher organizational levels spend a considerable amount of time implementing policies.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The degree of formalization in an organization tends to vary with its size.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain how technological complexity affects the leadership process with examples.
Q5) What are the three components of inputs?
A)Skills,abilities,values
B)System,unit,individual
C)Strategy,work,people
D)Environment,resources,history
Q6) Explain how level of authority affects leaders' and followers' behavior.
Q7) Explain how organizational culture impacts organizational climate.
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Chapter 12: Contingency Theories of Leadership
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Q1) Position power is not a characteristic of the leader but of the situation the leader finds himself or herself in.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The situational leadership theory is a useful way for getting leaders to think about how leadership effectiveness may depend somewhat on being flexible with different subordinates.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Describe the most striking difference between Fiedler's contingency model and the other contingency theories presented.What are the implications of this difference in an organizational setting?
Q4) Which two broad categories of leader behaviors did the situational leadership model originally identify?
A)Directive and supportive
B)Transformational and transactional
C)Behavior-oriented and cognitively-oriented
D)Initiating structure and consideration
Q5) Why have researchers criticized the contingency model?
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Chapter 13: Leadership and Change
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Q1) According to Beer's model for organizational change formula,C = D x M x P > R,what does "C" stand for?
A)The amount of coordination
B)The type of coordination
C)The amount of change
D)The type of change
Q2) How did Conger and Kanungo differentiate charismatic from noncharismatic leaders?
Q3) Emotions are often the fuel driving large-scale initiatives for change.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In this type of leadership,the MLQ assesses the extent to which leaders avoid responsibilities,fail to make decisions,are absent when needed or fail to follow up on requests.
A)Bureaucratic
B)Autocratic
C)Laissez-faire
D)Democratic
Q5) List the similarities in the behavior and style of both charismatic and transformational leaders.
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