Deck 12: Military Leadership

Question 1

The reason the chapter authors focus on the U.S. Military in their study of leadership is because the military offers illustrations of many applied aspects of leadership.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

According to your text, most managers will never have to supervise anyone who has had military service.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The authors point out that the military pulls its members from the higher classes, the so-called warrior classes.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The main difference between the military and all other types of organizations according to the text is its politics.

Question 5

The military is among very few organizations that rely on heritage and tradition in its organizational dynamics.

Question 6

One difference between the military and others organizations is that the military has access to an infinite amount of resources.

Question 7

The Army, as a branch of the military, has defined what it considers leadership character.

Question 8

Currently, when a military order is issued, the command is absolute without a stated rationale.

Question 9

Direct leadership involves direct contact between the leader and the followers.

Question 10

Institutional leadership involves using the strength of one's leadership style to accomplish goals.

Question 11

Dwight David Eisenhower is used as a case study in the text because he was a great president who did not serve in the military but studied military leadership.

Question 12

Colin Powell is used as a case study because he used his military connections to run for president.

Question 13

The text authors raise a concern over military leadership in that the military does not possess consistent core values, a characteristic necessary to organizational leadership.

Question 14

Tammy Duckworth is used as a case study in the text because she is an advocate for veterans with disabilities.

Question 15

According to the text authors, a leader is responsible for influencing followers to accomplish an objective.

Question 16

The text authors include a chapter on military leadership for all but one of the following. Which one is not a reason?

A) The military is a large organization with a long history
B) According to some studies, military training is related to successful leadership in civilian organizations.
C) The best civilian leaders have a military background.
D) The military has a hierarchy that parallels some organizational structures.
E) None of the above fit

Question 17

The similarities shared by military and non-military organizations according to your text are

A) Mission, lack of resources, service goals, and culture
B) Culture, service goals, rate of change, and proximity
C) Profit, service goals, systems, and culture
D) Profit, service goals, lack of resources, and prestige
E)Tough competition, rate of change, lack of resources, and challenge

Question 18

Which of the following is not characteristic of military leadership?

A) Transparency
B) Formality
C) Based on a culture
D) Distance between leaders and subordinates
E) Structure

Question 19

According to the text, which of the following is/are characteristics faced by all military organizations?

A) Effects of new technology
B) Lack of resources
C) Training of new leaders
D) Politics
E) A, B, and C

Question 20

Leadership, as defined by the Air Force, is

A) A role granted by the generals who oversee military operations
B) Influencing and directing people to accomplish the assigned mission.
C) A science
D) An art
E) B, C, and D.

Question 21

According to your text authors, which of the following are most important in military leadership?

A) Loyalty and bonding
B) Influencing and communicating
C) Ordering and structuring
D) Finding resources and delivering service
E) None of these fit

Question 22

Military services define leadership in ways that can be measured and evaluated. Which of these cannot be measured and evaluated easily according to the military?

A) Honor
B) Courage
C) Respect
D) Diversity
E) Accountability

Question 23

According to your text, which of the following are not included in the Air Force's concept of integrity?

A) Justice
B) Productivity
C) Honor
D) Honesty
E) Courage

Question 24

Informed leadership, according to your text,

A) Is a characteristic of contemporary military command.
B) Does not need to be focused on background information just current needs.
C) Means that the generals who issued the command know all they need to know to issue a command.
D) Means the commander's word is absolute.
E) None of the above.

Question 25

Explain what is meant by direct, organizational, and institutional leadership as it applies to the military.

Question 26

How can the OODA Loop be used in non-military organizations.

Question 27

Describe a project at your workplace that you would label multinational or people/team leadership.

Question 28

Select two characteristics of military leaders as noted in your text, and suggest how these are equally important in other non-military organizations.

Question 29

Explain how military and non-military organizations are different by naming three characteristics that are unique to each sector.