Question 1

How does the power of servanthood relate to concepts from French and Raven's five bases of social power?

Accepted Answer

Referent power: leaders are liked and adored by followers.Expert power: based on followers' perceptions of the leader's competence.Legitimate power: having status or formal job authority.Reward power: having the capacity to reward behavior.Coercive power: having the capacity to penalize or punish others.Servant leadership is more about shared power.Some say it is the opposite of coercive power.Servant leadership might align most closely with referent power inasmuch as followers like and are drawn to leaders who listen,heal,empower them,and put them first.

Question 2

Servant leadership works best when ______.

Accepted Answer

A)   there is a balance of power between the leaders and followers
B)   leaders are altruistic and have a strong motivation to help others
C)   leaders use a task-oriented approach
D)   leaders are willing to leave followers to work on their own B

Question 3

Context and culture is ______.

Accepted Answer

A)   an antecedent condition in servant leadership
B)   a leader behavior in servant leadership
C)   an outcome of transformational leadership
D)   an outcome of servant leadership A

Question 4

Servant leadership is ______.

Accepted Answer

A)   descriptive
B)   prescriptive
C)   both descriptive and prescriptive
D)   neither descriptive nor prescriptive

Question 5

Why might some subordinates not want to work with servant leaders?

Accepted Answer

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Question 6

The purpose of Liden et al.'s research on servant leadership was to ______.

Accepted Answer

A)   discredit servant leadership as a theory
B)   clarify the altruistic nature of servant leadership
C)   provide a framework consistent with transformational leadership
D)   provide a framework for understanding servant leadership complexities

Question 7

My leader takes careful responsibility for managing the resources of our organization.This is an example of which characteristic of a servant leader?

Accepted Answer

A)   stewardship
B)   commitment to the growth of people
C)   persuasion
D)   conceptualization

Question 8

My leader is a real visionary and helps us solve organizational problems in creative ways.She is using which characteristic of a servant leader?

Accepted Answer

A)   building community
B)   listening
C)   foresight
D)   conceptualization

Question 9

Servant leaders do all of the following except ______.

Accepted Answer

A)   put followers first
B)   empower followers
C)   help followers develop full personal capacities
D)   rely on followers to independently initiate growth

Question 10

Servant leadership ______.

Accepted Answer

A)   directly impacts society
B)   indirectly impacts society
C)   has not been shown to impact society
D)   is not a useful theory of leadership

Question 11

My math teacher not only helps me solve difficult equations,but she also wrote me a great letter of recommendation for the college I want to attend that has a highly ranked math department.She is using which servant leader behavior?

Accepted Answer

A)   helping followers grow and succeed
B)   emotional healing
C)   behaving ethically
D)   conceptualizing

Question 12

What makes up the core of the servant leadership process?

Accepted Answer

A)   antecedent conditions
B)   characteristics of the leader
C)   servant leader behaviors
D)   context and culture

Question 13

Ray was chosen by his boss to lead a team of coworkers during a companywide project.Ray spent a lot of time getting to know each of his individual team members and fostering intergroup relationships.Throughout the project,the people on Ray's team developed a deep sense of unity and relatedness to one another.Which characteristic of servant leadership best describes Ray's methods?

Accepted Answer

A)   conceptualization
B)   building community
C)   stewardship
D)   awareness

Question 14

Which of the following is not an outcome of servant leadership?

Accepted Answer

A)   follower performance and growth
B)   organizational performance
C)   societal impact
D)   leader empowerment

Question 15

According to Greenleaf,the best measure of servant leadership is ______.

Accepted Answer

A)   whether the leader has the necessary traits to lead
B)   whether the leader is ethical
C)   whether followers are willing to support the leader
D)   whether followers are nurtured by the leader

Question 16

When my leader shows she cares about my personal well-being she is using which characteristic of a servant leader?

Accepted Answer

A)   awareness
B)   listening
C)   healing
D)   conceptualization

Question 17

The people I am leading want me to use servant leadership.This is an example of ______.

Accepted Answer

A)   collective bargaining
B)   emotional healing
C)   context and culture
D)   follower receptivity

Question 18

Which of the following is a strength of servant leadership approach?

Accepted Answer

A)   Research supports the identification of the seven leader behaviors.
B)   The follower focus implies servant leadership is not about leading.
C)   There is no consensus on a common definition of servant leadership.
D)   It frames leadership on the principles of followers first.

Question 19

Kim leads a team of graduate students in food science who discover a new food ingredient that tastes like salt but contains no artificial ingredients.Kim gives credit for the discovery to her graduate students.She is displaying what servant leader behavior?

Accepted Answer

A)   foresight
B)   emotional healing
C)   putting followers first
D)   empowering

Question 20

State one servant leader behavior that you most identify with and briefly explain why.

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Exam 10: Servant Leadership