BUSMHR 3200 ACTUAL TEST QUESTIONS
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION VERIFIED
RESOURCE
●● Leader Trait
Answer: physical/personality characteristic differentiating
leaders/followers. Intelligence, Dominance, Self-confidence, Level of
energy/activity, Task-relevant knowledge
●● Implicit Leadership Theory
Answer: people have beliefs about how leaders should behave and what
they should do for followers
●● Leadership Prototype
Answer: mental representation of traits/behaviors that people believe
●● Consideration
Answer: leader behavior associated with creating mutual respect/trust,
focus on a concern for group member's needs and desires
●● Initiating structure
Answer: leader behavior that organizes and defines what group members
should be doing to maximize output
,●● Situational Theories
Answer: effectiveness of a particular style of leadership depends on
situation
●● Contingency Factors
Answer: situational variables that cause one style of leadership to be
more effective than another
●● Path-Goal Theory
Answer: leader behaviors → leadership effectiveness. Employee
characteristics → environmental factors
●● Transactional Leadership
Answer: clarifying employees role and task requirements/providing
followers with positive and negative rewards contingent on performance
●● Transformational Leaders
Answer: engender trust, seek to develop leadership in others, self-
sacrificing, moral agents, focus on objectives that transcend the more
immediate needs of the group
●● In-group exchange
, Answer: relationship where leaders and followers develop a partnership
- reciprocal influence, trust, respect, liking
●● Out-group exchange
Answer: leaders are characterized as overseers who fail in partnership
●● Shared Leadership
Answer: simultaneous, ongoing mental influence process where
individuals share responsibility for leading regardless of ormal
roles/titles
●● Servant-Leadership
Answer: increased service to others rather than to oneself
●● Outsourcing
Answer: contracting with another organization to perform a broad set of
services
●● Workforce Utilization Review
Answer: comparison of the proportion of employees in protected groups
with the proportion that each group represents in the relevant labor
market (related to Affirmative Action)
●● Recruiting
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION VERIFIED
RESOURCE
●● Leader Trait
Answer: physical/personality characteristic differentiating
leaders/followers. Intelligence, Dominance, Self-confidence, Level of
energy/activity, Task-relevant knowledge
●● Implicit Leadership Theory
Answer: people have beliefs about how leaders should behave and what
they should do for followers
●● Leadership Prototype
Answer: mental representation of traits/behaviors that people believe
●● Consideration
Answer: leader behavior associated with creating mutual respect/trust,
focus on a concern for group member's needs and desires
●● Initiating structure
Answer: leader behavior that organizes and defines what group members
should be doing to maximize output
,●● Situational Theories
Answer: effectiveness of a particular style of leadership depends on
situation
●● Contingency Factors
Answer: situational variables that cause one style of leadership to be
more effective than another
●● Path-Goal Theory
Answer: leader behaviors → leadership effectiveness. Employee
characteristics → environmental factors
●● Transactional Leadership
Answer: clarifying employees role and task requirements/providing
followers with positive and negative rewards contingent on performance
●● Transformational Leaders
Answer: engender trust, seek to develop leadership in others, self-
sacrificing, moral agents, focus on objectives that transcend the more
immediate needs of the group
●● In-group exchange
, Answer: relationship where leaders and followers develop a partnership
- reciprocal influence, trust, respect, liking
●● Out-group exchange
Answer: leaders are characterized as overseers who fail in partnership
●● Shared Leadership
Answer: simultaneous, ongoing mental influence process where
individuals share responsibility for leading regardless of ormal
roles/titles
●● Servant-Leadership
Answer: increased service to others rather than to oneself
●● Outsourcing
Answer: contracting with another organization to perform a broad set of
services
●● Workforce Utilization Review
Answer: comparison of the proportion of employees in protected groups
with the proportion that each group represents in the relevant labor
market (related to Affirmative Action)
●● Recruiting
