Week 12 OBR Review Quiz

Which of these statements about leadership is TRUE?

• Leadership includes the process of influencing others.

• Leadership applies to people in any position in the organization, not just those in executive positions.

• All of these statements are true.

Hassan is a new employee in the marketing department who always show off his diplomas and past awards indicating his marketing expertise. What contingency of power is this person trying to increase?

• Credentialism

• Visibility

• Countervailing power

Effective leaders:

• arrange the work environment so that employees can achieve corporate objectives more easily.

• use persuasion and other influence tactics to ensure that followers have the motivation and role clarity to achieve specified goals.

• do all of these.

Personal attributes, transformational, managerial, and implicit represent four of the main:

• perspectives of leadership.

• perspectives of shared leadership.

• contingencies of influence.

Which of the following statements is most consistent with the view of shared leadership?

• Employees throughout the organization need to informally assume leadership

• Leadership is broadly distributed rather than assigned to one person, such that people with the team and organization lead each other.

• Anyone may be a leader if given the chance.

The view that leadership is a role, not a position assigned to one person, such that people within the team and organization lead each other is called:

• Distributed leadership.

• Shared leadership.

• Democratic leadership.

Which leadership theory or perspective adopts the view that leaders are agents of change?

• Path-goal theory

• Implicit leadership perspective

• Transformational perspective

Which of the following statements about path-goal theory is TRUE?

• Path-goal theory considers the subordinate's ability and experience when determining the best leadership style for the situation.

• The main objective of path-goal theory is to encourage leaders to develop highly people-oriented and task-oriented behaviours whenever they interact with subordinates.

• Path-goal theory assumes that managers can apply only one leadership style in a given situation.

Adel is having difficulties explaining Leadership prototypes, which of the following is true about leadership prototypes?

• leadership stereotypes.

• preconceived beliefs about the features and behaviours of effective leaders.

• OCBs

Matrix organizations overlays two organizational structures in order to leverage the benefits of both types of structures.

• True

• False