Question 1

According to Fiedler's contingency model the most important dimension of situational control is task structure.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Which of the following is true for leading versus managing?

Accepted Answer

A) Leaders are charged with implementing vision and strategic plan. 
B) Effective leadership requires effective managerial skills at some level. 
C) Managers inspire others, provide emotional support, and try to get employees to rally around a common goal. 
D) Good leaders are necessarily good managers and vice versa. 
E) Leaders typically perform functions associated with planning, investigating, organizing, and control.

Question 3

Which of the following is true about transformational leadership?

Accepted Answer

A) It focuses on clarifying employees' role and task requirements. 
B) It provides followers with positive and negative rewards contingent on performance. 
C) It fosters higher levels of employee engagement, trust, commitment, and loyalty from followers. 
D) It encompasses the fundamental managerial activities of setting goals and monitoring progress toward goal achievement. 
E) It rewards and punishes people for their level of goal accomplishment.

Question 4

_____ encompasses the fundamental managerial activities of setting goals, monitoring progress toward goal achievement, and rewarding and punishing people for their level of goal accomplishment.

Accepted Answer

A) Transformational leadership 
B) Trait leadership 
C) In-group leadership 
D) Transactional leadership 
E) Out-group leadership

Question 5

Initiating structure involves leader behavior associated with creating mutual respect or trust and focuses on a concern for group members' needs and desires.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

According to Fiedler's Contingency Model, _____ refers to the degree of pre-arrangement contained within duties performed by the work group.

Accepted Answer

A) consideration 
B) leader-member exchange 
C) task structure 
D) leader-member relations 
E) position power

Question 7

Which of the following employee characteristics is a contingency factor that describes leadership effectiveness according to the path-goal theory?

Accepted Answer

A) Task structure 
B) Locus of control 
C) Work group dynamics 
D) Leader acceptance 
E) Role ambiguity

Question 8

Fiedler suggests that leaders must learn to manipulate or influence the leadership situation in order to create a match between their leadership style and the amount of control within the situation at hand.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

The implicit leadership theory is based on the idea that people have beliefs about how leaders should behave and what they should do for their followers.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

According to Ohio State researchers, which of the following sets are the two independent dimensions of leader behavior?

Accepted Answer

A) Dominance; guidance 
B) Consideration; initiating structure 
C) Concern for people; concern for production 
D) Authoritarian; democratic 
E) Paternalism; intellectualism

Question 11

Analyze contingency leadership as determined by Fiedler's contingency model.

Accepted Answer

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Question 12

A key managerial implication of path-goal theory is that:

Accepted Answer

A) managers should be trained to improve leader-member relations. 
B) organizational effectiveness can be enhanced by appropriately matching leaders with situations. 
C) managers should modify their leadership style to fit various employee and task characteristics. 
D) managers need to give employees ample opportunity to prove themselves. 
E) managers should consciously try to expand their in-groups.

Question 13

Leadership and management are two activities that are synonymous.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Jim is the daytime supervisor for an automobile assembly line. He supervises forty-five workers who perform routine jobs that require minimal training. Which of the following suggests that Jim follows the transactional model of leadership?

Accepted Answer

A) Jim has a certain idea about how he should behave as a leader and what he should do for his team of workers. 
B) Jim sets goals, monitors progress toward goal achievement, and rewards and punishes people for their level of goal accomplishment. 
C) Jim's leadership skills are most effective when applied to match the characteristics of the situation at hand. 
D) Jim wants to develop a partnership with his team illustrated by reciprocal influence, mutual trust, respect and liking, and a sense of common fates. 
E) Jim likes to provide the guidance and support needed by employees and ties meaningful rewards to completion of objectives.

Question 15

According to Fiedler's contingency model, high situational control implies that the leader's decisions will produce predictable results.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Shared leadership focuses on increased service to others over self-interest.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

According to Fiedler's Contingency Model, _____ refers to the degree to which the leader has formal authority to reward, punish, or otherwise obtain compliance from employees.

Accepted Answer

A) consideration 
B) leader-member exchange 
C) task structure 
D) leader-member relations 
E) position power

Question 18

Which of the following styles of leadership did researchers of the University of Michigan studies identify?

Accepted Answer

A) Dominance; guidance 
B) Employee centered; job centered 
C) People-centric; production-centric 
D) Authoritarian; democratic 
E) Consideration; initiating structure

Question 19

Transactional leaders engage in inspirational motivation, idealized influence, individualized consideration, and intellectual stimulation.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

According to the full-range theory of leadership, laissez-faire leadership is the worst type of leadership.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 16: Leadership

According to Fiedler's contingency model the most important dimension of situational control is task structure.

Which of the following is true for leading versus managing?

Which of the following is true about transformational leadership?

_____ encompasses the fundamental managerial activities of setting goals, monitoring progress toward goal achievement, and rewarding and punishing people for their level of goal accomplishment.

Initiating structure involves leader behavior associated with creating mutual respect or trust and focuses on a concern for group members' needs and desires.

According to Fiedler's Contingency Model, _____ refers to the degree of pre-arrangement contained within duties performed by the work group.

Which of the following employee characteristics is a contingency factor that describes leadership effectiveness according to the path-goal theory?

Fiedler suggests that leaders must learn to manipulate or influence the leadership situation in order to create a match between their leadership style and the amount of control within the situation at hand.

The implicit leadership theory is based on the idea that people have beliefs about how leaders should behave and what they should do for their followers.

According to Ohio State researchers, which of the following sets are the two independent dimensions of leader behavior?

Analyze contingency leadership as determined by Fiedler's contingency model.

A key managerial implication of path-goal theory is that:

Leadership and management are two activities that are synonymous.

Jim is the daytime supervisor for an automobile assembly line. He supervises forty-five workers who perform routine jobs that require minimal training. Which of the following suggests that Jim follows the transactional model of leadership?

According to Fiedler's contingency model, high situational control implies that the leader's decisions will produce predictable results.

Shared leadership focuses on increased service to others over self-interest.

According to Fiedler's Contingency Model, _____ refers to the degree to which the leader has formal authority to reward, punish, or otherwise obtain compliance from employees.

Which of the following styles of leadership did researchers of the University of Michigan studies identify?

Transactional leaders engage in inspirational motivation, idealized influence, individualized consideration, and intellectual stimulation.

According to the full-range theory of leadership, laissez-faire leadership is the worst type of leadership.