CH 11 Flashcards
1
Q
- Which type of leader demands instantaneous obedience and focuses on achievement, initiative, and self-control?
a. Democratic
b. Coaching
c. Affiliative
d. Coercive
e. Pacesetting
A
d
2
Q
- Which type of leader attempts to create employee satisfaction through bartering or negotiating for desired behaviors or level of performance?
a. Pacesetting
b. Coercive
c. Transactional
d. Transformational
e. Affiliative
A
c
3
Q
- Which type of leader has a strong influence on coworker support and building an ethical culture through increasing employee commitment and fostering motivation?
a. Transformational
b. Transactional
c. Coercive
d. Pacesetting
e. Authoritative
A
a
4
Q
- A coaching leader is one who builds a positive climate by doing which of the following?
a. Valuing people, their emotions, and their needs
b. Focusing on communication across all layers of the organization
c. Inspiring employees to follow their departmental leaders without question
d. Valuing achievement, initiative, and self-motivation
e. Developing skills for success, delegating responsibility, and issuing challenging assignments
A
e
5
Q
- Which leadership type values people, their emotions, and their needs, relying on friendship and trust to promote flexibility, innovation, and risk taking?
a. Authoritative
b. Coaching
c. Pacesetting
d. Coercive
e. Affiliative
A
e
6
Q
- Which of the following are a primary influence on employee’s ethical behavior because they are role models for an organization’s values?
a. Friends
b. Parents
c. Peers
d. Coworkers
e. Leaders
A
e
7
Q
- Which of the following is one of the seven habits of strong ethical leaders?
a. Adequate compensation
b. Good employees
c. The passion to do right
d. Charisma
e. A great education
A
c
8
Q
- Which type of leader can create a negative climate because of the high standards they set?
a. Authoritative
b. Affiliative
c. Democratic
d. Coaching
e. Pacesetting
A
e
9
Q
- Ethical leadership should be based on which of the following?
a. Holistic thinking that embraces the complex issues companies face daily
b. A strong shareholder desire for profits
c. The opinions of a leader who defines success in terms of group gratification
d. Short-term thinking that looks at the firm’s health on a day-to-day basis
e. People who embrace a transactional style of leadership
A
a
10
Q
- Strong ethical leaders have a passion for which of the following? (Select four)
a. Doing the right thing
b. Being proactive
c. Considering stakeholder interests
d. Being role models for the organization and its employees
e. Satisfying shareholders before other stakeholder groups
A
a, b, c, d
11
Q
- Which of the following statements about ethical leadership is true?
a. Ethical leadership is a foundational requirement for impacting the long-term valuation of the firm
b. Ethical leadership is necessary for the firm to achieve profitability to satisfy shareholders.
c. Ethical leadership maintains a short-term orientation to ethical decision making.
d. Ethical leadership requires ethical leaders to have charismatic personalities.
e. Ethical leadership usually avoids transactional leadership.
A
a
12
Q
- Group polarization _______.
a. occurs when one or more group members feel pressured to conform to the group’s decision even if they
personally disagree
b. occurs when two or more groups interact with one another on an informal basis
c. is when a group is more likely to move toward a more extreme position than members might have done individually
d. sets up a number of independent groups to work on opposing sides of an issue
e. assigns each team member as a “critical evaluator” with the responsibility to express opinions and objections freely
A
c
13
Q
- The ability or authority to guide and direct others toward a goal is known as _______.
a. leadership
b. collaboration
c. democracy
d. transparency
e. pacesetting
A
a
14
Q
- Which type of leader is characterized as having superficial charm, no conscience, grandiose self-worth, little or no empathy, and enjoys flouting rules?
a. Unethical
b. Psychopathic
c. Apathetic
d. Pacesetting
e. Charismatic
A
b
15
Q
- Leaders who are highly assertive and not very cooperative are categorized as having which conflict management style?
a. Accommodating
b. Avoiding
c. Collaborating
d. Competing
e. Compromising
A
d
16
Q
- Leaders with an accommodating conflict management style are known as being which of the following?
a. Highly assertive and not very cooperative
b. Not effective because they avoid conflict at any costs, even if it leads to misconduct
c. Highly cooperative but non-assertive
d. In between the assertiveness and cooperativeness dimensions
e. Cooperative and assertive
A
c
17
Q
- Which conflict management style is marked by a desire to meet the needs of stakeholders and strongly adhere to organizational values and principles?
a. Avoiding
b. Competing
c. Compromising
d. Accommodating
e. Collaborating
A
e
18
Q
- A culture that encourages employees to express concerns, bring up ethical issues, and take a proactive approach toward resolving conflicts is based on which of the following?
a. Values
b. Profits
c. Consumers
d. Shareholders
e. Stakeholders
A
a
19
Q
- Which of the following claims that leaders form unique relationships with followers through social interactions?
a. Leader–follower congruence
b. Leader-exchange theory
c. Normative myopia
d. Emotional intelligence theory
e. Conflict management
A
b
20
Q
- A two-way process in which the communicator communicates with superiors and subordinates is known as _______.
a. cooperation
b. transparency
c. leader–follower congruence
d. reporting
e. collaboration
A
d