Leadership and Management Quiz

What is the process by which a person exerts influence over others and inspires, motivates, and directs their activities to achieve group or organizational goals?

• Management

• Supervision

• Administration

• Leadership

What is the term used to describe an individual who is able to exert influence over other people to help achieve group or organizational goals?

• Coordinator

• Leader

• Manager

• Follower

Which of the following is not a source of managerial power?

• Reward power

• Innovative power

• Coercive power

• Legitimate power

What is the process of giving employees at all levels the authority to make decisions, be responsible for their outcomes, improve quality, and cut costs?

• Delegation

• Empowerment

• Oversight

• Authorization

Which model of leadership focuses on identifying personal characteristics that produce effective leadership?

• Transactional model

• Trait model

• Contingency model

• Behavioral model

What is the behavior indicating that a manager trusts, respects, and cares about employees?

• Initiating structure

• Supportive behavior

• Directive behavior

• Participative behavior

According to Fiedler's contingency model, what is the extent to which followers like, trust, and are loyal to their leader?

• Position power

• Leader-member relations

• Task structure

• Employee empowerment

Which theory of leadership describes how effective leaders motivate their followers by clearly identifying outcomes, rewarding high performance, and clarifying paths to goal attainment?

• Path-Goal theory

• Fiedler's model

• Transformational leadership

• Leader Substitutes model

What is the term used to describe an enthusiastic, self-confident transformational leader able to clearly communicate his vision of how good things could be?

• Servant leader

• Charismatic leader

• Transactional leader

• Autocratic leader

What is the term used to describe the behavior a leader engages in to make employees aware of problems and make them view these problems in new ways, consistent with the leader’s vision?

• Intellectual stimulation

• Developmental consideration

• Directive behavior

• Supportive behavior