Deck 7: Leadership Approaches Focusing on Influence, Attribution, and a Changing Environment

Question 1

The power approach to leadership casual chain has five leader styles that relate to the sources of power. When leaders recognize employees, provide rewards and promotions they are using the __________ style.

A) Forceful
B) Transactional
C) Symbolic and formal
D) Knowledge-based
E) Personality-based

Answer 1

Transactional

Question 2

The power approach to leadership casual chain has five leader styles that relate to the sources of power. When leaders inspire subordinates to achieve high standards and stretch goals they are using the __________ style.

A) Forceful
B) Transactional
C) Symbolic and formal
D) Knowledge-based
E) Personality-based

Answer 2

Personality-based

Question 3

Shared leadership is based on a sharing of power and influence. The proposed style is combined based on functional needs. Which one of the combined styles is used for directive functions?

A) Traditional vertical leadership
B) Superleadership
C) Self-leadership
D) Team leadership

Answer 3

Traditional vertical leadership

Question 4

Shared leadership is based on a sharing of power and influence. Overall, three factors determine the likely success of shared leadership. Which of the following is not one of those factors?

A) Capacity of followers or groups
B) Capability of the leader to develop and delegate
C) Organizational willingness to implement and maintain
D) Organizational functions and structure

Question 5

Culture is the learned and shared customs, beliefs, and values of a people. House and his colleagues (2004) identified ten global cultures. The United States and Canada are grouped in the __________ culture.

A) Anglo
B) Eastern Europe
C) Nordic Europe
D) American

Question 6

House and associates identified nine dimensions of culture. One of the dimensions is a humane orientation. It refers to societies that emphasize altruism, generosity, caring and kindness to others. Which one of the following cultures emphasizes this orientation?

A) Germanic Europe
B) Latin Europe
C) Sub-Saharan Africa
D) Anglo

Question 7

In addition to identifying the ten global cultures, and the nine cultural dimensions, House and his colleagues identified six leadership behaviors relative to their cultural groupings. Which of the following leadership behaviors would be most successful in the Middle East?

A) Charismatic and value-based
B) Team-oriented
C) Participative
D) Self-protective

Question 8

The diversity leadership model bases the leader style on diversity principles. Which of the following is not one of these principles?

A) Knowledge of and openness to learning about different subcultures
B) Willingness to place diversity needs over organizational goals
C) Sensitivity to diversity issues
D) Concrete efforts to ensure that discrimination does not occur

Question 9

The gender approach to leadership includes which one of the following performance goals?

A) The greatest common good
B) Employee types, especially by gender
C) Cultural acceptance of the feminine style
D) Removing gender barriers
E) Increasing the number of women leaders

Question 10

The gender leadership style assumes that men and women use the same style and examines why there are fewer women in leadership positions. The conditions that promote leader advancement are:

A) Gender of leader
B) Employee types, especially by gender
C) Cultural acceptance
D) All of the above
E) a & b

Question 11

Complexity leadership theory has three primary leadership styles that are executed on a rotating, as-needed basis. The type of leader style that fosters creativity in a knowledge era is known as:

A) Administrative leadership
B) Creative leadership
C) Adaptive leadership
D) Enabling leadership

Question 12

The success of strategic leaders is dependent on their possession of certain traits and skills. One of these is the ability to assimilate large amounts of information, sift through it, and interpret it. This ability or leader characteristic is referred to as:

A) Cognitive complexity
B) Behavioral complexity
C) Social intelligence
D) Absorptive capacity

Question 13

The strategic leadership style has three components. The component that is a combination of discernment and timing is:

A) Managerial wisdom
B) Absorptive capacity
C) Adaptive capacity
D) Strategic capacity

Question 14

The social change leadership heavily emphasizes collaborative leadership. The major elements of collaborative leadership include all of the following except:

A) Sense of egalitarianism
B) Cultural sensitivity
C) Consensus building
D) Individualized consideration

Question 15

There are two performance goals of the Social Change Leadership theory. The first is solving society's local, national, and global problems and the second is:

A) Integration of goals by those in system or network
B) Greater sense of community
C) Opportunity for win-win situations
D) Mutual sharing and learning

Question 16

Leadership involves the effective use of power. The power approach to leadership causal chain has five leader styles that relate to the sources of power. The transactional style relates to French and Raven's legitimate source of power.

Question 17

The power approach to leadership implies that the use of different sources of power relates to a leader style. Of the five styles, those who use expert or knowledge based leadership tend to analyze, clarify and use it extensively for collaboration and strategic positioning.

Question 18

Shared leadership is considered a multilevel model because different organizational members perform different types of leadership at the same time.

Question 19

A major strength of shared leadership is the fact that it works at multiple levels of analysis simultaneously and the subcomponents of the theory are clearly articulated.

Question 20

Attribution theory recognizes that leadership is as much defined by expectations as it is by specific behaviors and performance, as such it can focus on the expectations of either followers or leaders.

Question 21

The leadership based on world culture model uses the nine cultural dimensions as a basis for leadership styles and the ten cultural groupings as the contingency factors with the performance goal of conformance to cultural expectations of one's group.

Question 22

The self-protective leadership style used in the leadership based on world cultures model emphasizes the involvement of others in broad decision making and implementation.

Question 23

In organizational settings the dominate culture represents the values, and beliefs about the mission, goals and strategies of the organization. One of the performance goals of diversity leadership is to accommodate the subcultural values and change the dominant culture.

Question 24

The gender approach to leadership has two perspectives. One of the perspectives assumes that men and women use the same leader style and the second perspective assumes they have different styles.

Question 25

Complexity theory is essentially founded on the postmodern assumption of continuous change and frequent episodes of chaos.

Question 26

Complexity leadership theory envisions three primary leadership styles, the administrative, collaborative, and delegative. These must be used in combination to achieve the desired performance goals.

Question 27

The strategic leadership style has three components: absorptive capacity, adaptive capacity and managerial wisdom.

Question 28

Strategic leadership performance goals emphasize the role of competition, expanding an organization's market or profit, and ultimately winning in a demanding environment.

Question 29

Both strategic leadership and social change leadership have a strategic focus concerning reputation and success in competing.

Question 30

The success of social leadership is in tackling and then solving a range of problems, including local economic development, regional environmental problems and national dilemmas.

Question 31

The power approach to leadership causal chain model uses five leader styles. Describe each style and relate it to French and Raven's analysis of power.

Question 32

In addition to being aware of the nine dimensions of culture, what actions can leaders who are operating in, or are in contact with other world cultures take in order to be culturally competent?

Question 33

The casual chain model for diversity leadership identifies four diversity principles that must be exercised for effective diversity leadership. Briefly describe each of these principles.

Question 34

Complexity leadership theory has three primary leadership styles that are executed on a rotating, as needed basis. Briefly describe the three styles and how they interact.

Question 35

Social change leadership theory places a heavy emphasis on collaboration. Describe the major elements of collaborative leadership.