Deck 15: Gender and Leadership

Question 1

Applications for culture and leadership do not include

A) Can help leaders understand their own cultural biases and preferences.
B) Help our leaders adapt their style to be more effective in different cultural settings.
C) Can be used to build culturally sensitive websites.
D) Help maximize profit within a locally owned and operated organization.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Global leadership behaviors include all of these except

A) Self-directive leadership
B) Team-oriented leadership
C) Participative leadership
D) Autonomous leadership

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Five cross-cultural competencies for leaders include all of the following except

A) Being able to adapt to living and communicating in other cultures.
B) Learning the perspectives, trends, and tastes of many cultures.
C) Understanding business, political, and cultural environments worldwide.
D) Teaching the importance of one's own culture to other cultures.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

What was an element that GLOBE used to create regional clusters?

A) Nonverbal communication
B) Personal values
C) Common language
D) Population density

Question 5

According to GLOBE researchers, which of the following statements is false?

A) The Anglo cluster is high in performance orientation and low in in-group collectivism.
B) The Eastern Europe cluster tends to be forceful and supportive of their coworkers.
C) The Latin Europe cluster places value on institutional collectivism and societal goals.
D) The Sub-Saharan Africa cluster tends to place higher concern for family and friends, than for themselves.

Question 6

A definition of culture does not include

A) Individual qualities.
B) Customs and scripts of a group.
C) Traditions that are shared by a group.
D) Learned beliefs and values.

Question 7

Who is(are) the most referenced researcher(s), identifying five major dimensions on which cultures differ?

A) House et al.
B) Adler and Bartholomew
C) Hofstede
D) Lord and Maher

Question 8

A strength of the GLOBE research study is that it includes ____ countries.

A) 100
B) 62
C) 34
D) 50

Question 9

Universally undesirable leadership behaviors include all of the following except

A) Asocial
B) Loner
C) Explicit
D) Dictatorial

Question 10

According to the GLOBE study, which of these is not a cultural dimension?

A) Institutional collectivism
B) In-group collectivism
C) Division of labor
D) Future orientation

Question 11

How many "country clusters" did GLOBE focus its findings on?

A) 10
B) 5
C) 15
D) 20

Question 12

Who researched culture and leadership resulting in the GLOBE research program?

A) Adler and Bartholomew
B) Hofstede
C) Lord and Maher
D) House et al.

Question 13

According to the Anglo culture cluster, the least desirable leader behavior is

A) Charismatic/value-based leadership.
B) Participative leadership.
C) Humane-oriented leadership.
D) Self-protective leadership.

Question 14

Universally desirable leadership attributes do not include

A) Effective bargainer.
B) Dictatorial.
C) Plans ahead.
D) Win-win problem solver.

Question 15

How many cultural dimensions did GLOBE researchers identify?

A) 9
B) 15
C) 12
D) 6

Question 16

Who developed five cross-cultural competencies for leaders?

A) Adler and Bartholomew
B) Hofstede
C) Lord and Maher
D) House et al.

Question 17

The cultural dimension in which organizations encourage and reward members for excellence is

A) Humane orientation.
B) Assertiveness.
C) Power distance.
D) Performance orientation.

Question 18

According to the Sub-Saharan Africa Anglo culture cluster, the most desirable leader behavior is

A) Charismatic/value-based leadership.
B) Participative leadership.
C) Humane-oriented leadership.
D) Team-oriented leadership.

Question 19

According to the Germanic culture cluster, the most desirable leadership behavior is

A) Charismatic/value based leadership.
B) Participative leadership.
C) Self-protective leadership.
D) Autonomous leadership

Question 20

According to the research, the Eastern Europe cluster scored high on

A) In-group collectivism.
B) Future orientation.
C) Performance orientation.
D) Uncertainty avoidance.

Question 21

According to the text, the conceptualization of leadership used by GLOBE was derived in part from

A) Transformational leadership theory.
B) Implicit leadership theory.
C) LMX theory.
D) Transactional theory.

Question 22

A major factor in the need for increased cross-cultural awareness is

A) Increase of globalization.
B) Environmental issues.
C) Changes in civil rights.
D) Government regulation.

Question 23

Diversity is an approach or system that concentrates on one culture.

Question 24

Ethnocentrism can be a major obstacle to effective leadership.

Question 25

Propose a transcultural vision that global leaders from all the culture clusters could support and believe in. (Do not choose the obvious one: world peace.) Which cultural values support your proposal? Which culture might be less invested in such a vision?

Question 26

Prejudice is other-oriented rather than self-oriented.

Question 27

Hofstede's benchmark research identified six major dimensions on which cultures differ.

Question 28

Globalization originated after the Vietnam War.

Question 29

A criticism of the GLOBE research study, cited in the text, is

A) The way the study measured leadership.
B) The narrow scope of the study.
C) Underdeveloped quantitative research design.
D) Classification system is not as expansive as the Hofstede classification system.

Question 30

How does culture influence the leadership process?

Question 31

Globalization has created a need to understand how cultural differences affect leadership performance.

Question 32

Culture and leadership focus on a collection of related ideas rather than a single unified theory.

Question 33

Propose some guidelines for how a leader can adapt his or her communication to diverse cultures.

Question 34

A strength of the GLOBE study is that it provided a classification of cultural dimensions that is more expansive than Hofstede's classification system.

Question 35

How are diversity and multiculturalism in the workplace different?

Question 36

Global leaders need to be skilled in creating transcultural visions.

Question 37

Plan a way for two countries that differ on future orientation (one with a high score, the other with a low score) to negotiate an agreement on environmental protection.

Question 38

The GLOBE study identified only valued leadership attributes.

Question 39

What is implicit leadership theory and how did it contribute to the concept of global leadership behaviors? What are the limitations of this approach?

Question 40

One of the GLOBE cultural dimensions, power distance, is defined as the degree to which members of a group favor strategic physical distance close to or away from others.

Question 41

Which of the nine cultural dimensions identified by GLOBE researchers do you think most contributes to cross-cultural miscommunication? Give examples to support your claim.