Leadership in Management MCQs

Leadership in Management MCQs

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1: Challenging followers to perform at high levels, setting standards for excellence, and showing confidence in followers’ ability to reach goals is known as ?

A.   Achievement Oriented Leadership

B.   Authentic Leadership

C.   Authority Leadership

D.   Strategic Leadership

2: Involves knowing oneself and behaving in a way that is consistent with what is intuitively right.

A.   Achievement Oriented Leadership

B.   Authentic Leadership

C.   Directive Leadership

D.   Ethical Leadership

3: Management that is highly concerned with production and not very concerned with people.

A.   Authority Obedience Management

B.   Middle of the Road Management

C.   Team Style Management

D.   Country Club Management

4: The Process in which leaders solicit views that challenge their own deeply held beliefs are known as Balanced Processing?

A.   True

B.   False

5: Trust in one time transactions, which typically derives from the calculus of gains and losses and is weighed by perceived risks is known as CBT

A.   True

B.   False

6: Providing encouragement, listening to employees’ concerns, and expressing _____ toward employees.

A.   Trust

B.   Respect

C.   Sensitivity

D.   All of the Above

7: The circumstances that form the setting for an _____ and in terms of which it can be fully understood.

A.   Event

B.   Statement

C.   Idea

D.   All of the Above

8: The path Goal Theory is an example of?

A.   Contingency Approach

B.   Trait Approach

C.   Productivity Approach

D.   System approach

9: Management that is highly concerned with people and not very concerned with production.

A.   Impoverished Management

B.   Middle of the Road Management

C.   Team Style Management

D.   Country Club Management

10: Involves giving followers specific instructions about their tasks, providing deadlines, setting standards for performance, and explaining rules is known as?

A.   Achievement Oriented Leadership

B.   Authentic Leadership

C.   Directive Leadership

D.   Ethical Leadership

11: Leadership practices that emphasize moral sensitivity, judgment, motivation, and action are known as?

A.   Achievement Oriented Leadership

B.   Authentic Leadership

C.   Directive Leadership

D.   Ethical Leadership

12: A relationship based on the transfer of valued resources such as _____ between two people.

A.   Performance

B.   Money

C.   Information or supplies

D.   All of the above

13: A model for understanding various components and traits of leadership; people are more engaged when their leaders behave in certain ways at the highest end of the full-range model is known as?

A.   Full Range Model of Leadership

B.   Great Man Theory of Leadership

C.   Humble Leadership

D.   Ethical Leadership

14: Based on the idea that leadership was something “great men” achieved, by virtue of their noble characteristics and heroic deeds is known as?

A.   Full Range Model of Leadership

B.   Great Man Theory of Leadership

C.   Humble Leadership

D.   Ethical Leadership

15: Leadership where a leader’s humility allows them to show followers how to grow from working in an organization is known as?

A.   Full Range Model of Leadership

B.   Great Man Theory of Leadership

C.   Humble Leadership

D.   Ethical Leadership

16: Characterized by the leader and follower sharing the same goals and objectives, or a full internalization of the other’s desires and intentions, meaning both are working toward the same things with each other’s best interests in the forefront is known as?

A.   Identification based Trust

B.   Knowledge based Trust

C.   Calculus based Trust

D.   None of these

17: Management that has little concern for either people or production is known as?

A.   Impoverished Management

B.   Middle of the Road Management

C.   Team Style Management

D.   Country Club Management

18: In the management context, employees and a leader have reason to trust is known as In Group

A.   True

B.   False

19: Leaders who demonstrate beliefs that are not consistent with actions are known as Internalized Perspective.

A.   True

B.   False

20: A level of trust that is grounded in how predictable another person is known as?

A.   Identification based Trust

B.   Knowledge based Trust

C.   Calculus based Trust

D.   None of these

21: The premise that leaders do not treat every follower the same way, but instead form exchange relationships of varying quality with each of them is known as Leader Member Exchange.

A.   True

B.   False

22: Balancing concern for employees with concern for production is known as?

A.   Impoverished Management

B.   Middle of the Road Management

C.   Team Style Management

D.   Country Club Management

23: Employees who are perceived to have little to contribute to an exchange relationship are known as?

A.   In-Group

B.   Out-Group

C.   Both a and b

D.   None of the above

24: Leadership that allows followers to have a voice in decisions that affect them, by sharing information and inviting followers’ ideas and opinions is called?

A.   Humble Leadership

B.   Ethical Leadership

C.   Participative Leadership

D.   Servant Leadership

25: Leaders who say exactly what they mean are known as Relational Transparency.

A.   True

B.   False

26: Awareness of a leader who seeks feedback to improve interactions with others is known as Self Awareness.

A.   True

B.   False

27: A desirable set of behaviors for leaders to emulate is known as

A.   Humble Leadership

B.   Ethical Leadership

C.   Participative Leadership

D.   Servant Leadership

28: Leaders who make a practice of showing consideration, being friendly and approachable, and paying attention to the well-being of followers is known as?

A.   Humble Leadership

B.   Ethical Leadership

C.   Participative Leadership

D.   Supportive Leadership

29: Management that is highly concerned with both people and production is known as?

A.   Impoverished Management

B.   Middle of the Road Management

C.   Team Style Management

D.   Country Club Management

30: The attempt to identify the common traits of good leaders and then emulate these traits is known as

A.   Contingency Approach

B.   Trait Approach

C.   Productivity Approach

D.   System approach

31: Behaviors that motivate followers through rewards and corrective actions are known as

A.   Humble Leadership

B.   Ethical Leadership

C.   Transactional Leadership

D.   Supportive Leadership

32: Behaviors that mobilize extra effort from followers through emphasis on change while articulating a new vision for the organization is known as ?

A.   Humble Leadership

B.   Transformational Leadership

C.   Transactional Leadership

D.   Supportive Leadership

33: A psychological state comprising the intention to accept vulnerability based on positive expectations of the _____ of another is known as Trust?

A.   Behavior

B.   Intentions

C.   Both a and b

D.   None of the above

34: The ______ theory represents the school of thought known as the contingency approach to leadership.

A.   Employee-First

B.   Method-Results

C.   Path-Goal

D.   Forward-Thinking

35: Servant leadership and ______ leadership are two theories that emphasize morality.

A.   altruistic

B.   kind

C.   passionate

D.   authentic

36: Defining tasks and giving goals to employees are considered ______ behaviors.

A.   organization-oriented

B.   structure-initiating

C.   daily workman

D.   process-driven

37: The ______ attempts to identify the characteristics shared by great leaders.

A.   ability pyramid

B.   power hierarchy

C.   greatness theory

D.   trait approach

38: Zeleznik states the difference between managers and leaders comes down to the fact that managers______.

A.   gain trust while leaders maintain tasks

B.   focus is on people as leaders take more control

C.   are day to day problem solvers while leaders focus on the future

D.   are innovative and leaders plan

39: According to Gary Yukl, leadership involves a/an ______ and the ability to direct people towards organizational goals.

A.   influence process

B.   high salary

C.   desire for power

D.   servant’s attitude

40: The dark triad is comprised of Machiavellianism, Narcissism, and ______.

A.   psychopathy

B.   self-indulgence

C.   centrism

D.   the “I” theory

41: The Path-Goal theory identifies ______ approaches leaders can use to motivate followers to achieve goals.

A.   one

B.   two

C.   three

D.   four

42: ______ leadership is defined as behaviors that motivate followers with corrective actions and rewards.

A.   Reward-focused

B.   Power-based

C.   Influential

D.   Transactional

43: Edward asked for a day off from work that was considered a religious holiday based on his ______.

A.   stereotypes

B.   culture

C.   prototypes

D.   repatriation

44: Cultural intelligence is comprised of four dimensions. A person with a high ______ is self-aware and can easily see different cultural patterns.

A.   cognitive CQ

B.   metacognitive CQ

C.   motivational CQ

D.   behavioral CQ

45: Coca-Cola is an example of a ______ since it operates primarily out of the United States, but also has facilities producing and distributing their product in other countries.

A.   high-context culture

B.   multinational corporation

C.   self-initiated expatriate

D.   affinity group

46: Countries that have high ______ as a cultural value put an emphasis on people, including how they care for others and their quality of life, over material things.

A.   relationship orientation

B.   uncertainty avoidance

C.   power distance

D.   Confucian dynamism

47: Amy is well known for her ______. She can influence others that are different from her and has always successfully managed people from other cultures.

A.   high power distance

B.   long-term orientation

C.   stereotypes

D.   global mindset

48: Countries with high ______ have many rules and laws, and more social controls than other countries.

A.   repatriation

B.   cultural looseness

C.   cultural tightness

D.   prototyping

49: Emma, originally from France, has been living and working in the United States for the past two years. She is referred to as an ______, even though she has no plans to return home to France to work.

A.   assimilator

B.   behavioral CQ

C.   expatriate

D.   motivational CQ

50: Although hard to define, ______ is best described as a person’s way of doing things that we can see, as well as things unseen, such as what things one values.

A.   culture

B.   stereotype

C.   prototype

D.   repatriation