Leadership and Team Dynamics Quiz

Which of the following belongs to interpersonal role of leadership?

• Monitor role, disseminator role, and spokesperson role

• Entrepreneurial role and disturbance handler role

• Leadership role, figurehead role, and liaison role

• Resource allocator role and negotiator role

What is NOT true about personality?

• It's a pattern of traits, thoughts, and behaviors

• It never changes

• We adjust our personality to some degree to suit our environment

• Our personality changes overtime, but overall it's relatively stable

Which of the following is the reason why expatriation is important for an international team?

• Expatriates fill the roles in foreign countries that perhaps the country doesn't have the skills available

• With their social networks and expertise, expatriates act as the glue between these various units of a multinational company

• It's part of the management development scheme

• All of these

Which of the following is an approach to diversity management?

• Provide diversity awareness training in the organization

• Let diverse individuals work together on important tasks that require cooperation and frequent interaction

• Increasing decision making transparency and use objective criteria for recruitment and promotion.

• All of these

According to the instructor, the most important aspects of designing an intrinsically motivating job is _____________

• Physical working conditions

• Financial reward

• Goals, feedback on achievement of goals, self-efficacy, reward

• Supervision quality

Despite the downsides of teams, which type of task may benefit from teamwork?

• Tasks in which a truly innovative solution is needed

• Complex tasks requiring a broad range of perspectives and knowledge

• Both A and B

• Neither A nor B

The culture in Google and new tech startups is a typical example of ________

• Adhocracy culture

• Clan culture

• Market culture

• Hierarchy culture

Which of the following statements is NOT true about values?

• Values are our basic enduring convictions about preferred ways of doing things, or preferred outcomes.

• Values are less stable than personality over time

• Values are relatively stable.

• Values change between generations.

Which of the following is one of the workforce segments according to Professors Lepak & Snell's workforce segmentation model?

• Specialists

• Criticals

• Professionals

• Doers

• All of these

Which dimension of personality reflects how imaginative, curious, flexible and sensitive we are?

• Openness

• Conscientiousness

• Agreeableness

• Neuroticism