Strategic Leadership
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Course Introduction
Strategic Leadership explores the theories, principles, and practices required to guide organizations toward long-term success in complex and dynamic environments. The course examines how leaders formulate vision, set strategic direction, and align resources to achieve organizational goals. Students will analyze case studies and real-world scenarios to understand decision-making processes, stakeholder engagement, ethical considerations, and the development of adaptive strategies. The course also emphasizes the cultivation of leadership skills such as critical thinking, communication, innovation, and resilience necessary for influencing change and sustaining competitive advantage.
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Leadership Enhancing the Lessons of Experience 6th Edition by Richard L. Hughes Available Study Resources on Quizplus
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Chapter 1: Leadership Is Everyones Business
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Q1) Being a leader is either in one's genes or not.Which of the following statement is true?
A)Innate factors more than formative experiences influence leadership.
B)Leadership is either innate or acquired,not both
C)Typically most individuals can be categorized based on their innate qualities as leaders and nonleaders.
D)Each person can make the most of leadership opportunities he or she faces
Answer: D
Q2) Define leadership as described in the text.
Answer: Leadership is the process of influencing an organized group toward accomplishing its goals.
Q3) Formal study and learning from experience are mutually exclusive.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) The study of leadership can help people develop perspectives to better learn from their experiences.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Leadership Involves an Interaction Between the
Leader, the Followers, and the Situation
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Q1) Leaders who are appointed by superiors
A)Need to be sensitive to their constituencies
B)Always have credibility with subordinates
C)Are better able to influence a group toward goal achievement
D)Have the loyalty of the organization's subordinates
Answer: A
Q2) Followers can often provide leaders with relevant information for good solutions to be implemented since they are often at the level where many organizational problems occur.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Identify in-group subordinates.
Answer: Subordinates belonging to the in-group can be distinguished by their high degree of loyalty,commitment and trust felt toward the leader.
Q4) Men view leadership as an exchange with subordinates for services rendered.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Leadership Is Developed Through Education and Experience
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Q1) People who become leaders in any field tend to first stand out by virtue of their
A)Interpersonal skills
B)Technical proficiency
C)Emotional intelligence
D)Intercultural competence
Answer: B
Q2) The worst developmental opportunities are those that stretch individuals and allow them to test themselves against new and difficult tasks.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Leadership programs for senior executives and CEOs tend to focus on
A)Conceptual components
B)Individualized feedback
C)Intellectual components
D)Strategic planning
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Assessing Leadership and Measuring Its Effects
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Q1) Assessing leadership potential is fundamentally concerned with testing who will or will not be an effective leader once they have been placed into a position.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The two major qualitative approaches include correlational studies and experiments.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Adopting valid and well-researched processes for hiring,developing or promoting leadership talent is necessary for developing
A)A good competency model
B)A good leadership talent management system
C)A critical leadership position
D)A performance appraisal system
Q4) The root cause of most major industrial accidents and incidents can be traced back to management cost-cutting initiatives.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Power and Influence
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Q1) 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
Q2) Influence tactics refer to one person's actual behaviors designed to change another person's attitudes,beliefs,values or behaviors.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Write a short note on the different influence tactics as assessed by the IBQ.
Q4) Often leaders will need to find ways to resolve a problem if bureaucratic rules are invoked by followers.If this is the case,then the followers will have successfully used _____ power to influence their leader.
A)Legitimate
B)Coercive
C)Referent
D)Reward
Q5) Write a short note on expert power with examples.
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Chapter 6: Leadership and Values
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Q1) Film directors,musical conductors or marketing leaders are examples of leaders with strong
A)Affiliation values
B)Power values
C)Security values
D)Aesthetics values
Q2) _____ involves reinterpreting otherwise immoral behavior in terms of a higher purpose.
A)Advantageous comparison
B)Moral justification
C)Displacement of responsibility
D)Euphemistic labeling
Q3) The 'individual-collective source of identity' dilemma deals with
A)How success is defined in a culture
B)Preferences - mastery over nature or living in harmony with nature
C)How people of different status,authority or power behave toward each other
D)The degree to which individuals should contribute to a larger group
Q4) What are the seven dilemmas on the basis of which cultural differences are analyzed?
Q5) Write a short note on authentic leadership.
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Chapter 7: Leadership Traits
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Q1) Which theory explains the interesting relationships between leader intelligence and experience levels and group performance in stressful versus nonstressful conditions?
A)Strategic contingencies theory
B)Trait theory
C)Leader-member exchange theory
D)Cognitive resources theory
Q2) Emotional intelligence can seldom be developed.
A)True
B)False
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
Q4) What are the two major predictions made by the cognitive resources theory with respect to intelligence,experience,stress and group performance?
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Chapter 8: Leadership Behavior
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Q1) Which of these refers to how much a leader is friendly and supportive toward subordinates?
A)Goal emphasis
B)Consideration
C)Initiating structure
D)Work facilitation
Q2) Community leaders
A)Have positional power
B)Can get tasks accomplished
C)Tend to have fewer resources
D)Can discipline followers who do not adhere to organizational norms
Q3) In general,researchers have reported that subordinates are more satisfied when
A)Leaders monitored results
B)Leaders set clear goals
C)Leaders exhibit a high level of consideration
D)Leaders explained what followers were to do
Q4) What is informal mentoring?
Q5) What is managerial derailment? Briefly explain the 'inability to build relationships' theme in derailment research.
Q6) Write a short note on the five steps of informal coaching.
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Chapter 9: Motivation, Satisfaction, and Performance
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Q1) Some people are motivated to persist in certain behaviors for the simple reason that they like to do them.This is called
A)Extrinsic motivation
B)Overjustification effect
C)Intrinsic motivation
D)Observer effect
Q2) According to the text,what is the main reason for people staying with organizations?
A)Bases job evaluation on innovation
B)Supports training and education
C)Encourages fun,collegial relationships
D)Promises of long-term employment
Q3) Compare and contrast performance and effectiveness.
Q4) Anything that provides direction,intensity and persistence to behavior is
A)Motivation
B)Performance
C)Effectiveness
D)Satisfaction
Q5) Define and describe the expectancy theory and its three probabilities.
Q6) Write a short note on intrinsic motivation.
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Chapter 10: Groups, Teams, and Their Leadership
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Q1) For a team to do well,the individuals composing the team must sometimes not maximize their individual effort.This is referred to as
A)Subsystem nonoptimization
B)Span of control
C)Process loss
D)Intersender role conflict
Q2) 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
Q3) With role ambiguity,the problem is lack of clarity about just what the expectations are.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Leaders with a large span of control tend to display more consideration and use more personal approaches when influencing followers.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 11: Characteristics of the Situation
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Q1) Explain how technological complexity affects the leadership process with examples.
Q2) The highest level of technological complexity occurs in
A)Large furniture-manufacturing companies
B)Printing shops
C)Oil refining operations
D)Custom cabinetmakers
Q3) In the information age,companies succeed according to how well they can capture the benefits from "economies of scale and scope".
A)True
B)False
Q4) Organizational climate
A)Is highly related to job satisfaction
B)Is wider in scope
C)Has more to do with task perceptions of work
D)Is a system of shared beliefs among members of a group
Q5) Define formalization and mention its advantages and disadvantages for leaders and followers.
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) Which of the following statements about leadership is true?
A)Situational leadership theory maintains that leaders are very consistent in their behavior
B)Situational leadership theory maintains that leaders' effectiveness is primarily determined by changing the situation to fit the particular leader's style
C)The contingency model emphasizes flexibility in leader behaviors
D)The contingency model suggests that leader effectiveness is primarily determined by selecting the right kind of leader for a certain situation
Q2) Illustrate how a leader might use path-goal theory to improve his leadership effectiveness.
Q3) The four contingency theories presented have all of the following common assumptions except
A)They are theories rather than just someone's opinion
B)They assume the leader can diagnose key aspects
C)They all assume leaders can act in a flexible manner
D)They all assume a correct match between situational and follower characteristics and leaders' behaviors have a positive effect on group outcomes
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Chapter 13: Leadership and Change
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Q1) When followers are afraid of losing power,a leader's response to this fear would be
A)To coach,mentor,train,peer coach,use job aids and so forth
B)To demonstrate empathy and have good listening skills
C)To help employees build new relationships before change occurs or soon thereafter
D)To design and implement a new reward system to support change initiative
Q2) Charisma is probably more a function of the leader's personal characteristics than of the followers' reactions to a leader.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is probably the most important and overlooked situational variable that affects charismatic leadership?
A)Task
B)Stability
C)Time
D)Innovation
Q4) How can the C = D x M x P > R model help leadership practitioners?
Q5) How did Conger and Kanungo differentiate charismatic from noncharismatic leaders?
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