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PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
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⩥Leadership of the 1970s focused on what? Answer: Organizational
Behavior
⩥Authentic Leadership Answer: A style in which the leader is true to
himself or herself while leading
⩥Spiritual Leadership Answer: Leaders use values, a sense of "calling,"
and membership to motivate followers
⩥Servant Leadership Answer: Focuses on providing increased service to
others—meeting the goals of both followers and the organization—
rather than to oneself.
⩥Adaptive Leadership Answer: leaders encourage followers to adapt by
confronting and solving problems, challenges, and changes
,⩥Followership Answer: The role followers play in the leadership
process
⩥Discursive Leadership Answer: Leadership is created not so much
through leader traits, skills, and behaviors, but through communication
practices that are negotiated between leader and follower
⩥What 4 components are central to leadership? Answer: 1. Leadership is
a process
2. Leadership involves influence
3. Leadership occurs in groups
4. Leadership involves common goals
⩥Definition of Leadership Answer: A process whereby an individual
influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal
⩥What is the context in which leadership takes place? Answer: In
groups
⩥Trait Leadership Answer: certain individuals have special innate
characteristics or qualities that differentiate them from non-leaders
⩥Social Identity Theory Answer: The degree to which a person fits with
the identity of the group as a whole
,⩥Referent Power Answer: Power that comes from subordinates' and
coworkers' respect, admiration, and loyalty
⩥Expert Power Answer: Based on followers' perceptions of the leader's
competence
⩥Legitimate Power Answer: Power as a result of status or job authority
⩥Reward Power Answer: power that comes from the ability to provide
rewards or favors
⩥Coercive Power Answer: Derived from having the capacity to penalize
or punish others
⩥Information Power Answer: Derived from possessing knowledge that
others want or need
⩥Two major kinds of power: Answer: Position & Personal
⩥Position power includes which types of power? Answer: Legitimate
Reward
Coercive
, Information
⩥Personal power includes which types of power? Answer: Referent &
Expert
⩥Position Power Answer: influence derived from one's formal structural
position in the organization
⩥Personal Power Answer: The influence capacity a leader derives from
being seen by followers as likable and knowledgeable
⩥Classification system of moral reasoning Answer: Stage 1—Obedience
and Punishment
Stage 2—Individualism and Exchange
Stage 3—Interpersonal Accord and Conformity
Stage 4—Maintaining the Social Order
Stage 5—Social Contract and Individual Rights
Stage 6—Universal Principles
⩥Who designed the classification of moral reasoning? Answer:
Kohlberg