JMU COB 202 WALSH FINAL EXAM
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Leadership - Correct Answers -The ability to influence, motivate, and enable others to
contribute toward the effectiveness of the organization
Transformational Leadership - Correct Answers --Begins with a strategic vision, which is
a positive representation of a future state that energizes and unifies employees
-Assumes employees current direction is misaligned and needs to be altered
Managerial Leaders - Correct Answers --Support and guide the performance and well-
being of individual employees
-Employees objectives are stable and aligned
Servant leaders - Correct Answers -Serve followers toward their need fulfillment,
development, and growth
Authentic Leaders - Correct Answers -Are aware of, feel comfortable with, and act
consistently with their values, personality, and self-concept
Fiedler's Contingency Model - Correct Answers --Leadership style is stable and based
on personality
-Leader's effectiveness depends if person's natural leadership matches situation
-Best style depends on situational control (power)
Elements of Organizational Structure - Correct Answers -Span of Control
Formalization
Centralization
Departmentalization
Span of Control - Correct Answers -number of people directly reporting to the next level
in the hierarchy
Formalization - Correct Answers --degree to which organizations standardize their
behavior through rules, procedures, formal training, and related mechanisms.
-increases efficiency and compliance
Situational Leadership Model - Correct Answers --Four styles: Telling, selling,
participating, delegating
-Leader style varies on the followers motivation and ability
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Leadership - Correct Answers -The ability to influence, motivate, and enable others to
contribute toward the effectiveness of the organization
Transformational Leadership - Correct Answers --Begins with a strategic vision, which is
a positive representation of a future state that energizes and unifies employees
-Assumes employees current direction is misaligned and needs to be altered
Managerial Leaders - Correct Answers --Support and guide the performance and well-
being of individual employees
-Employees objectives are stable and aligned
Servant leaders - Correct Answers -Serve followers toward their need fulfillment,
development, and growth
Authentic Leaders - Correct Answers -Are aware of, feel comfortable with, and act
consistently with their values, personality, and self-concept
Fiedler's Contingency Model - Correct Answers --Leadership style is stable and based
on personality
-Leader's effectiveness depends if person's natural leadership matches situation
-Best style depends on situational control (power)
Elements of Organizational Structure - Correct Answers -Span of Control
Formalization
Centralization
Departmentalization
Span of Control - Correct Answers -number of people directly reporting to the next level
in the hierarchy
Formalization - Correct Answers --degree to which organizations standardize their
behavior through rules, procedures, formal training, and related mechanisms.
-increases efficiency and compliance
Situational Leadership Model - Correct Answers --Four styles: Telling, selling,
participating, delegating
-Leader style varies on the followers motivation and ability
