Nonprofit Leadership Test Questions
Course Introduction
Nonprofit Leadership explores the essential principles and practices required to effectively lead nonprofit organizations. The course examines topics such as governance, strategic planning, fundraising, volunteer management, and ethical decision-making within the nonprofit sector. Students will develop critical leadership skills, understand the challenges unique to nonprofit operations, and learn how to inspire teams while advancing organizational missions. By integrating theory with real-world case studies, the course prepares students to become adaptive, impactful leaders ready to address evolving community needs.
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Effective Leadership 5th Edition by Robert N. Lussier
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Chapter 1: Who Is a Leader
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Q1) The leadership paradigm that assumes leaders are born, not made, is ____ theory.
A) trait
B) behavioral
C) integrative.
D) contingency
Answer: A
Q2) Are leaders born or made, and can leadership skills be developed?
Answer: Effective leaders are not simply born or made, they are born with some leadership ability and develop it.
Q3) Serving on committees with members from outside the organizational unit is an example of a figurehead role.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Leadership theory classifications include all of the following EXCEPT:
A) behavioral.
B) integrative.
C) contingency.
D) individual.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Leadership Ethics and Traits
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Q1) Personality is developed solely based on genetics.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The four components of emotional intelligence are self-awareness, self-efficacy, social awareness, and self-management.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Which of the following statements regarding emotional intelligence (EI) is TRUE?
A) EI is the ability to work well with people.
B) An offshoot of EI is IQ (intelligence quotient).
C) IQ outweighs EI when it comes to personal achievement.
D) There are five components of EI.
Answer: A
Q4) Personality alone is a good predictor of unethical behavior.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Leadership Motivation and Behavior
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Q1) To motivate employees with a high n Ach, you should do all of the following EXCEPT:
A) give them fast and frequent feedback on their performance.
B) try to include them in decision making.
C) give them increased responsibility for doing new things.
D) give them nonroutine, challenging tasks with clear, attainable objectives.
Answer: B
Q2) The high-high leader has concern for both production and people, which is also called the team leadership style.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) To motivate employees with a high n Pow, you should to all of the following EXCEPT:
A) let them plan and control their jobs as much as possible.
B) try to include them in decision making.
C) try to assign them to a whole task rather than just a part of a task.
D) let them work as part of a team.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Contingency Theories in Leadership
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Q1) Robert Treehouse developed the path-goal leadership theory.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Do the three situational favorableness factors of the contingency leadership model (Exhibit 5.3) fit in only one of the three variables (follower, leader, situation) of all contingency leadership variables (Exhibit 5.1)? Explain.
Q3) State the major difference between behavioral and contingency leadership theories, and explain the behavioral contribution to contingency theories.
Q4) If the leadership style does not match the situation, Fiedler recommends to change the leadership style, rather than the situation.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are the differences between the time-driven model and the development-driven model?
Q6) The role of the leader is to answer questions and provide encouragement and resources using the facilitate leadership style.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Influencing: Politics, Power, Negotiation, and Networking
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Q1) To accomplish objectives, a manager who uses political behavior that creates obligations and develops alliances, often using the word "favor" in their requests is using
A) politics.
B) reciprocity.
C) networking.
D) coalition building.
Q2) A recent college graduate is trying to get a job with IBM. Her uncle works at IBM and she asked him to give her a recommendation for an open position. The college graduate is using which type of power to get the job?
A) coercive
B) connection
C) reward or legitimate
D) referent
E) information or expert
Q3) Reciprocity is the process of developing relationships for the purpose of socializing and politicking.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Coaching, Communication, and Conflict Skills
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT one of the guidelines you should use when getting feedback on messages?
A) ask questions
B) be aware of nonverbal communication
C) verify the message
D) be open to feedback
Q2) Initiating Conflict Resolution. You and your coworker, Chris, clean up the work area, which is divided in two sections, about once a week. The machine section is always dirtier and takes more work and time to clean. It seems as though Chris always makes sure you get the machine section to clean, which you don't think is fair.
Q3) Situational Communication. You have just walked into the back of the room, where your employees are working in the front. There is a lot of smoke, which they do not realize, in the back of the room. Your employees are very highly capable and like to participate in decision making. As a situational communicator, you should do what?
Q4) Mentoring is more involved and personal than coaching.
A)True
B)False
Q5) List and explain the three parts of the message-receiving process.
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Chapter 7: Follower-ship and Leader Member Exchange
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Q1) What do you say to those who argue that tactics used by followers to get noticed by their leader (such as impressions management, ingratiation, and self-promotion) are shameful and self-serving and should be avoided?
Q2) List five things a leader should delegate.
Q3) One of the benefits of delegating responsibilities is that leaders can focus on doing many tasks well, instead of a few tasks less effectively.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The focus of LMX theory is on the quality of the dyadic exchange that develops between leaders and followers.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the three follower influencing characteristics.
Q6) How does education and experience, described as follower influencing characteristics, affect effective followership?
Q7) Can someone have a successful career by aspiring to be an effective follower? Explain.
Q8) How do quality leader-member exchange relationships influence follower behavior?
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Chapter 8: Self-Managed Teams and Team Leadership
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Q1) Describe how a leader can avoid conducting nonproductive meetings.
Q2) Which of the following statements regarding functional teams is NOT true?
A) The structure of the functional team is generally more hierarchical.
B) One of the drawbacks of using functional teams is that workers suffer from boredom due to the repetitive nature of their jobs.
C) There is no one best leadership style to use in all functional teams.
D) The use of functional teams has increased over the years.
Q3) During a meeting focused on resolving a serious problem, Billy was more interested in asking the group if they heard about the company owner and the mailroom clerk. Which of the following group member problem types does Billy represent?
A) silent
B) talker
C) wanderer
D) bored
E) arguer
Q4) Think of a past or present job. Based on your knowledge of the distinction between a group and a team, would you say you were part of a team or a group? Explain.
Q5) Describe the benefits of using self-managed teams in organizations.
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Chapter 9: Transformational and Charismatic Leadership
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Q1) What is stewardship?
Q2) Vision is the
A) Ability to imagine different and better conditions.
B) Ways to achieve the different and better conditions.
C) Rallying cry of a movement or cause.
D) All of the above.
Q3) Charismatic leaders are said to possess special traits that influence their behaviors. Three such traits described in the chapter are envisioning, empathy, and empowerment. Explain how each of these traits influences how followers perceive the charismatic leader.
Q4) What is servant leadership?
Q5) Personalized charismatic leaders use rewards and punishment to manipulate and control followers.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Negative charismatic leaders emphasize:
A) internalization.
B) ideals.
C) devotion to themselves.
D) all of the answers are correct
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Chapter 10: Leadership of Ethics, Diversity, and Culture
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Q1) What are the major obstacles often encountered in trying to achieve full diversity?
Q2) Diversity training is most likely to be successful when it is conducted by outside experts on diversity.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Culture defines the organization's essential purpose.
A)True
B)False
Q4) All of the following countries have collectivistic cultures EXCEPT:
A) Japan.
B) Mexico.
C) Great Britain.
D) Greece.
Q5) A deeply rooted culture that is well matched to strategy and external environmental trends is a not a strong recipe for successful strategy execution.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Explain the primary reasons for embracing diversity.
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Chapter 11: Change Management and Strategic Leadership
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Q1) Discuss how an organization's objectives may affect its search for opportunities.
Q2) The changing phase of the three stage model of change includes which of Kotter's eight steps for implementing change?
A) Establish a sense of urgency
B) Develop a compelling vision
C) Empower employees to act on the vision
D) refreezing
E) A, b, and c
Q3) "The new supermarket in town offers better sales prices than we do." This statement is best described by which part of the strategic management process?
A) analyze the environment
B) vision
C) mission
D) goal
E) strategy
F) value
G) core competence
Q4) What is the difference between a strategic vision and a mission statement?
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Chapter 12: The Learning Organization and Crisis Leadership
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT one of the steps in the risk assessment process?
A) risk reduction
B) risk identification
C) crisis management
D) risk analysis
Q2) Identify three key components of the pre-crisis planning phase.
Q3) Under which of the following conditions is a learning environment most needed?
A) a stable environment where change is slow and incremental.
B) a rapidly changing environment where employee skills and abilities remain unchanged.
C) an environment with increasing pressure for employees to upgrade their skills and where there are no guarantees of job security
D) in a rapidly changing environment with increasing globalization, competition, and technological shifts.
Q4) A pre-crisis plan is the best way to lessen the negative consequences of any crisis.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How has the Internet affected the way crises are perceived in our society today?
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