Western Leadership Quiz

Western leadership tends to view leadership as a:

• Prize

• Process

• Relationship

• Reward

The Western worldview tends to make decisions through:

• Collaboration

• Rationality or logic

• The followers

• Self-interest

McManus and Perruci use the work of _______ as a case study to describe and analyze the Western approach to leadership.

• Aristotle

• Locke

• Machiavelli

• Plato

All of the following statements about The Prince are true EXCEPT:

• The text suggests that a leader must be unconcerned with their reputation among their followers.

• The text recommends that it is not necessarily essential to be good, or ethical-but a prince must appear to be good.

• The text asserts that there are 2 ways for a leader to further their interests-by law and by force.

The current Western perspective on leadership attempts to:

• Balance the primacy of the individual with the primacy of the collective

• Embrace the challenges of globalization by using a follower-centric approach

• Focus on the relationship between leaders and followers

• Honor the importance of democratic principles amongst leaders

Leader-follower relationships in a Western perspective are often:

• Collectivist

• Ignored

• Transformational

• Transactional

The Western worldview tends to make decisions through:

• Collaboration

• The followers

• Rationality or logic

• Self-interest

Western leaders tend to see the responsibility of a leader as:

• Dictating basic steps needed to execute any initiative

• Maintain the status quo

• Managing day to day operations of the organization

• Motivating followers

The Prince was appealing to:

• Absolute monarchs seeking guidance for how to gain and maintain power

• Middle class members attempting to learn how to gain power and authority

• Princes seeking advice for how best to lead according to Christian principles

• Revolutionaries looking overthrow the rule of absolute monarchs

All of the following statements about The Prince are true EXCEPT:

• The text asserts that there are 2 ways for a leader to further their interests- by law and by force.

• The text recommends that it is not necessarily essential to be good, or ethical-but a prince must appear to be good.

• The text suggests that a leader must be unconcerned with their reputation among their followers

• The text famously suggests that the 'ends justify the means', or that the method for achieving a goal is unimportant if the results are what you seek.