Lesson 14: Culture and Leadership Flashcards
Which of these are applications for culture and leadership?
Helping leaders understand their own cultural biases and preferences.
Helping leaders adapt their style to be more effective in different cultural settings.
Building culturally sensitive websites.
(ALL OF THE ABOVE)
Which of these is not one of the global leadership characteristics?
Self-directive leadership
(T/F) 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.
False
What does a definition of culture include?
Customs and scripts of a group
Traditions that are shared by a group
Which are universally undesirable personality traits of a leader?
Asocial Loner Non-explicit Dictatorial (ALL OF THESE)
Which of these are universally desirable attributes of leader?
Bargains effectively
Plans ahead
Is a win-win problem solver
(ALL OF THESE)
(T/F) Hofstede’s benchmark research identified five major dimensions on which cultures differ.
True
According to implicit leadership theory, which of these is true?
Followers have implicit beliefs and convictions about leaders.
(T/F) A strength of the GLOBE study is that it provided a classification of cultural dimensions that is more expansive than Hofstede’s classification system.
True
(T/F) Global leaders need to be skills in creating trans-cultural visions.
True
(T/F) The GLOBE study identified only valued leadership attributes.
False
(T/F) Diversity is an approach or system that concentrates on one culture.
False
Which options are included in the five cross-cultural competencies for leaders?
All of these
(T/F) Globalization originated after the Vietnam War.
False
(T/F) The culture and leadership approach focuses on a collection of related ideas rather than a single, unified theory.
True
