ASM453 Chapter 2 Leadership Style and Role (Revision)

JUNE 2018

An employee unfamiliar with performing tasks is best supervised under a person who exercises this leadership style.

• Participative Management

• Democratic

• Subordinate-centered leadership

• Autocratic

FEBRUARY 2022

Autocratic leadership is appropriate when dealing with 

• emergency situations.

• highly skilled workgroups.

• available sufficient time to permit subordinate participation.

• significant pending changes that require considerable subordinate input.

JULY 2023, FEBRUARY 2022

All of the following statements are true about the laissez-faire leadership approach EXCEPT 

• supervisors provide subordinates with little supervisory input.

• supervisors have highly skilled and well-educated subordinates. 

• supervisors give subordinates a considerable amount of freedom. 

• supervisors exert extensive control over the actions of subordinates. 

JULY 2017

Boss-centered leadership is

• democratic.

• autocratic.

• autonomous.

• self-governing.

FEBRUARY 2023

Which of the following statements clearly describes leadership?

• It is the ability to get things done through and with others.

• It is not something that can be learned by a manager.

• It is an inherited trait that helps to influence others.

• It is a trait possessed by all managers and supervisors.

FEBRUARY 2023

Supervisors may use the Laissez-faire approach in these situations EXCEPT

• work group is goal oriented.

• work group is comprised of leased employees.

• work group is highly skilled.

• work group is well-educated.

FEBRUARY 2023

A supervisor who expects his or her subordinates to maintain a high level of output regardless of the impact of productivity expectations on the employees best describes a / an

• subordinate-oriented leadership.

• boss-oriented supervision.

• achievement-oriented supervision.

• employee-oriented leadership.

JULY 2021

A supervisor may use the Management-by-Objectives (MBO) techniques if the

• work group is highly skilled.

• work group is goal oriented.

• work group is group motivated.

• work group comprises temporary employees.

JUNE 2016

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the laissez-faire leadership approach?

• The subordinates have a considerable amount of freedom.

• The laissez-faire approach is a useful approach when employee creativity is involved.

• The subordinates are given a considerable amount of assistance from the supervisor.

• The supervisor may display a lack of care.

JUNE 2015

Subordinate-centered leadership is a manager who

• defines limit, ask group to make decision.

• makes decision and announces it.

• sells decisions.

• present tentative idea.