University of Houston

ACCT 2332 101

MODULE 4 QUIZ

CHAP 12 QUIZ

1)________leadership behavior provides guidance, support, and corrective feedback for day-to-day activities.

Tactical

Visionary Strategic

Supervisory

Operational

2. Which of the following is a key behavior of the best leaders according to Kouzes and Posner?

give explicit instructions

encourage the heart

demand respect increase the profitability

hold multiple managerial meetings

 

 

3.          behaviors refer to actions taken to ensure the satisfaction of team members, develop and maintain harmonious work relationships, and preserve the social stability of the group.

Laissez-faire Supervisory

Group maintenance

Strategic

Tack performance

 

4. Which of the following statements is true of an organization’s vision?

The best organizational vision is that which is both ideal and unique.

An organization’s vision helps managers to plan employee compensation.

 It forms a mental image of an organization’s levels of hierarchy.

The vision of an organization is usually large and exists at the topmost level.

It expresses the path employees should follow to achieve personal goals.

 

5. Which of the following statements about leaders is not true?

The number of followers a leader has is a gauge of the leader’s influence.

Leaders are tacticians, not strategists.

Leaders engage in effective interpersonal processes. Leaders influence others to attain goals.

Leaders implement plans that produce results.

 

 

 6.         leadership does not involve a hierarchical, superior–subordinate relationship but instead invites colleagues at the same level to solve problems together.

 

Autocratic

 Affiliative

Authoritative

Lateral

Charismatic

 

 

 7.         leaders are those who motivate people to transcend their personal interests for the good of the group or organization.

Autocratic

Transformational

 Transactional Shared

Pseudotransformational

 

8. Which of the following is a situational model that focuses on the participative dimension of leadership?

the path-goal model

the Hersey and Blanchard model

the Vroom model

the contingency model the laissez-faire model

 

9. Which of the following is a situational model that focuses on the participative dimension of leadership?

the path-goal model

the Hersey and Blanchard model

the Vroom model

the contingency model the laissez-faire model

 

10. Which of the following theories concerns how leaders influence subordinates’ perceptions of their task objectives and the way they work toward attainment of those objectives?

Fiedler’s contingency theory

Hersey and Blanchard’s situational theory leader–member exchange theory

laissez-faire theory

path-goal theory