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Mar 13, 2017

LDR 535 Final Exam

FINAL EXAM LDR 535

____ involves the creative cooperation of people working together to achieve something beyond the capacities of individuals working alone.

Groupthink

Functional teamwork

Virtual teamwork

Synergy

From a humanistic point of view, resistance to change has a cognitive, emotional and behavioral dimension. The fear of loss, (such as status, pay, job, or position), and fear of the unknown are examples of the ____ dimension.

Cognitive

Emotional

Cultural

Behavioral

____ leadership actions are explicit and highly visible and are indicative of management's commitment to new strategic initiatives and the associated cultural changes.

Values-based

Substantive

Symbolic

Traditional

The strength of any culture depends on:

The degree to which a set of norms and values are widely shared and strongly held throughout the organization.

The leader’s relationship with his or her followers.

How diverse the organization is.

How much the organization embraces change.

Which of the following tasks point to the essential competencies of crisis leaders? The ability to:

Stay out of the way

Manage people

Delegate

Apply from the hip decisions

A leader who communicates high expectations, shows competence, and sets a strong role model is using behaviors of:

Path-goal leadership

Transactional leadership

Charismatic leadership

Situational leadership

The second step of the force-field model is about the execution of the change. The key is developing new ____________ that are aligned with the proposed change.

Policies and procedures

Attitudes, values, and behaviors

Marketing schemes

Employees

Pat Smith is a personnel director for a large bank. Her major goal is to find a person who can adapt his or her leadership to different types of people and situations. Pat is basing her selections on:

The trait approach

Leaders emergence theory

The skills approach

The great person approach

In the five-step crisis risk assessment model, ________________ can be used to test employees’ responsiveness and sensitize the organization to any potential crisis.

Step 4, risk reduction

Step 4, crisis prevention simulations

Step 2, risk assessment and ranking

Step 5, crisis management

Which of the stages of the Crisis Management Plan involve reviewing the effectiveness of the plan to see what worked?

Leading during a Crisis

Adapting after a Crisis

Plan Formulation

Pre-Crisis Planning

To be a successful leader, you need three managerial leadership skills, one of which is ____ skill, which involves the ability to use methods and techniques to perform a task.

decision-making

team-building

interpersonal

technical

To motivate employees with a high n Aff, you should:

Criticize and praise in equal parts.

Try to include them in decision making.

Have them work independently.

Delegate responsibility for orienting and training new employees to them.

The leader is at the core of group change and activity, representing the backbone of the group or organization. Leadership is viewed as:

Leadership as an act

Focus of group processes

Leadership as a behavior

Personality perspective

Which of the following is an advantage to team-centered decision-making?

Team members prefer assuming responsibility

It results in higher commitment by the leader

It can improve decision quality

Decisions happen quickly

Leaders who regard ________ as a distraction rather than a real and legitimate concern will find it hard to move beyond the first step of the change management model.

Personal values

Culture

Cultural identity

Resistance

Effective crisis communication is part of which of the three stages of the Crisis Management Plan?

Leading during a Crisis

Adapting after a Crisis

Plan Formulation

Pre-Crisis Planning

In a high power-distance culture:

Leaders and their followers rarely interact as equals.

Leaders and their followers interact on several levels as equals.

Emphasis is on developing and nurturing personal relationships.

Emphasis is on assertiveness and a competitive drive for money.

The strategic management process consists of five key decision areas laid out in five steps; the last step is:

Strategy evaluation and control

Strategy formulation

Strategy execution

Setting objectives

The four primary elements of mindfulness as it relates to leadership are:

Optimization of attitudes and emotional intelligence, integration of attention, clarify of intention, and mastery of strategic leadership.

Mastery of intention, clarity of attention, optimized vision, and strategic mission.

Clarify of intention, mastery of attention, optimization of attitudes, and separation of daily life, work, and relationship.

Mastery of attention, clarity of intention, optimization of attitude and emotional intelligence, and integration into every domain of daily life, work and relationships.

Although there are clear differences between management and leadership:

The two constructs overlap.

There is little research to support one or the other.

Leadership is more valued than management.

Management is more valued than leadership.

You have been hired as CEO of Lugar Industries and have been asked to change the organizational culture. Because your company operates in a quickly changing environment, you need to have a culture that encourages employees to respond quickly to changes, take risks, innovate, and have the authority to make quick decisions to take advantage of opportunities and to avoid risks. Based on these conditions, you, as CEO, want a(n) ____ culture.

bureaucratic

competitive

cooperative

adaptive

_________ emphasizes a transparent and high-quality exchange relationship between leaders and followers, allowing for the formation of positive leader–member exchange relationships.

Adaptive leadership

Diversity leaders

Authentic leadership

Ethnocentrism leadership

To motivate his highest performers, a manager gives his highest performer each month an "Employee of the Month" award and a parking space next to his. Of what motivational theory is this an example?

Expectancy

Equity

Reinforcement

Goal-setting

Social loafing is likely to result when:

Individual-level performance appraisal occurs

Teams are extremely cohesive

Individual effort is not recognized or assessed

There is a lack of motivation within the team

José has consistently exceeded his sales projections for the past four quarters. His supervisor gave him a promotion because of his high sales success. His supervisor is using:

Transactional leadership

Laissez-faire leadership

Transformational leadership

Middle-of-the-road leadership

What type of challenge occurred when the problem employees encountered was clearly defined but difficult to solve?

An adaptive challenge

A non-challenge

A technical and adaptive challenge

A technical challenge

The strategic management process consists of five key decision areas laid out in five steps; the first step is:

Strategy execution

Setting objectives

Strategy formulation

Crafting a strategic vision and mission statement

Adaptive leadership is a unique kind of leadership in that:

It focuses on the dynamics of mobilizing people to address change

It describes the transformational processes in complex organizations

It describes the process of rewards and punishments used in leadership

It focuses on the leader’s behaviors as a reflection of the followers

The emerging approach called servant leadership:

Focuses on followers' needs

Focuses on traits

Focuses on adapting to solve problems

Focuses on spirituality

Team ______ is the creation of something valuable, useful, and novel by individuals working together in a complex social system.

socialization

learning

wanderer

creativity

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