EXAMINATION TEST 2026 TESTED QUESTIONS
WITH FULL SOLUTION GRADED A+
◉ Authenic Leaders. Answer: -Transpaent
-honest with themselves and with others.
-exhibit a higher level of moral reasoning capacity, allowing them to
judge between gray and shades of gray
◉ Bennis. Answer: effective leadership cannot exist without the full
inclusion, initiatives, and the cooperation of employees.
◉ Warren Bennis. Answer: "The End of Leadership"
◉ Posner. Answer: In the past, business believed that a leader was
like the captain of a ship: cool, calm, collected. Now, we see that
leaders need to be human. They need to be in touch, they need to be
empathetic, and they need to be with people. Leaders need to be a
part of what's going on, not apart from what's going on.
◉ Globalization. Answer: changed the traditional view of an
organizational leader as "the heroic individual, often charismatic,
,whose positional power, intellectual strength, and per- suasive gifts
motivate followers
◉ Fortune Magazine. Answer: Your competition can copy every
advantage you've got—except one
◉ "black box," or unexplainable concept. Answer: Regardless of all
the attention given to leadership and its recognized importance, it
does remain pretty much of a _______________________________
◉ Bennis. Answer: "To survive in the twenty-first century, we are
going to need a new generation of leaders, not managers.
◉ Leadership. Answer: defined in terms of group processes,
personality, compliance, particular behaviors, persuasion, power,
goal achievement, interaction, role differentiation, initiation of
structure, and combinations of two or more of these.
◉ indicators and predictors of true leadership. Answer: an
individual's ability to find meaning in negative events and to learn
from even the most trying circumstances
◉ George. Answer: (Authentic leaders) "bring people together
around a shared mission and values and empower them to lead, in
,order to serve their customers while creating value for all their
stakeholders."
◉ Fortune article on Leadership. Answer: "contemporary leadership
seems to be a matter of aligning people toward common goals and
empowering them to take the actions needed to
reach them."
◉ Gretzky. Answer: I don't go where the puck is; I go to where the
puck is going to be."
◉ Bennis. Answer: the issue is not just interpreting and envisioning
the future, or knowing where the puck is going to be, but being able
to create the kind of meaning for people, the values that make sense
to them, where there's enough trust in the system so it's going to
stick."
◉ Authoritarian leadership. Answer: very directive and allowed no
participation.
◉ democratic leadership. Answer: encouraged group discussion and
decision making, leader tried to be "objective" in giving praise or
criticism and to be one of the groups in spirit.
, ◉ laissez-faire leader. Answer: -complete freedom to the group; this
leader essentially provided no leadership.
-produced the greatest number of aggressive acts from the group
◉ autocratic leaders reaction. Answer: Both the aggressive and
apathetic behaviors were deemed to be reactions
◉ Sweeping generalizations. Answer: _______________________on the
basis of the Lippitt and White studies are dangerous
◉ Ohio State University /Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire
(LBDQ). Answer: Used to analyze leadership in numerous types of
groups and situations.
◉ The Ohio State studies started with the premise that________.
Answer: no satisfactory definition of leadership existed
◉ Today leadership is recognized as both____________ and __________.
Answer: -multidimensional, as first pointed out by the Ohio State
studies
-multilevel (person, dyad, group, and collective/community)
◉ Likert. Answer: "System 4" (democratic) leadership style