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MGMT 6100 Final Exam 150 Practice Questions and
Correct Answers/ MGMT 6100 Final Exam Review
Questions and Answers
House's Path-Goal Theory of Leadership is based on the
expectancy theory of motivation, where employees are
motivated when they believe, or expect, all the following,
except - ...ANSWER...✓✓ they are not the Least Preferred
Coworker
(they believe efforts will lead to high performance, high
performance will be rewarded, rewards they will receive
are valuable to them)
The Transformational Leadership Theory distinguishes
between transformational leadership styles and
transactional leadership styles. Which is not an element
of transformational leadership? - ...ANSWER...✓✓
contingent rewards
(elements include: inspirational motivation, intellectual
stimulation, individual consideration)
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Which theory suggests that because leaders are not able
to change their style to adapt to the situation, either the
situation should be changed to match the leader, or the
leader should be changed to match the situation? -
...ANSWER...✓✓ Fiedler's Contingency Theory (LPC
Theory of Leadership)
One of the main differences between the Michigan Studies
and the Ohio State Studies was how they classified the
two broad categories of behaviors that they identified. -
...ANSWER...✓✓ The Michigan Studies identified that
Task-Oriented and People-Oriented behaviors were on
different ends of a single continuum, while the Ohio State
Studies classified these two behaviors as independent,
each being on a separate continuum.
After the disappointing results of the trait-based and
behavioral approaches to leadership, scholars began to
specifically incorporate the role of the environment into
leadership theories. One of the first of these contingency
approaches to leadership was Fiedler's Contingency
Model (also called the LPC Theory of Leadership),
developed by Fred Fiedler in the 1960s.
One of the most important contributions from Fiedler's
Contingency Model is that - ...ANSWER...✓✓ it explicitly
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recognized that leadership effectiveness depends (or is
contingent upon) the favorability of the situation.
According to Fiedler, a task-oriented leader would only
be successful if the situation called for a task-oriented
leader.
Which position on the Managerial Grid is sometimes
described as the ideal style of management, where both
task-oriented and people-oriented behaviors are high? -
...ANSWER...✓✓ team management
According to John P. Kotter in "What Leaders Really Do,"
management involves all the following except -
...ANSWER...✓✓ setting direction
A significant difference between Fiedler's Contingency
Theory and many of the other contingency leadership
theories, including Situational Leadership and House's
Path-Goal Theory is that - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Fiedler's
Contingency Theory assumes that a leader's style is fixed
and does not change, while Situational Leadership and
House's Path-Goal Theory assumes a leader can vary
their style depending on the situation.
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After scholars became disillusioned with the trait-based
approaches to leadership in the 1940s, they began to
focus on behavioral approaches to leadership by trying to
determine the behaviors of effective leaders. Through the
work of researchers at Ohio State University and the
University of Michigan, two broad categories of leadership
behaviors were identified. These two categories are: -
...ANSWER...✓✓ Task-oriented behaviors and people-
oriented behaviors.
According to John P. Kotter in "What Leaders Really Do,"
management and leadership both involve deciding what
needs to be done, creating networks of people to
accomplish the agenda, and ensuring that the work
actually gets done. - ...ANSWER...✓✓ true
Vroom and Yetton's Decision Model approach to
leadership has leaders answer seven key questions,
working their way though a decision tree based on their
responses, to determine which of five different leadership
styles would be appropriate in the specific situation. -
...ANSWER...✓✓ true
According to The Leadership Challenge by Kouzes and
Posner, leadership can not be learned. You are born with
MGMT 6100 Final Exam 150 Practice Questions and
Correct Answers/ MGMT 6100 Final Exam Review
Questions and Answers
House's Path-Goal Theory of Leadership is based on the
expectancy theory of motivation, where employees are
motivated when they believe, or expect, all the following,
except - ...ANSWER...✓✓ they are not the Least Preferred
Coworker
(they believe efforts will lead to high performance, high
performance will be rewarded, rewards they will receive
are valuable to them)
The Transformational Leadership Theory distinguishes
between transformational leadership styles and
transactional leadership styles. Which is not an element
of transformational leadership? - ...ANSWER...✓✓
contingent rewards
(elements include: inspirational motivation, intellectual
stimulation, individual consideration)
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Which theory suggests that because leaders are not able
to change their style to adapt to the situation, either the
situation should be changed to match the leader, or the
leader should be changed to match the situation? -
...ANSWER...✓✓ Fiedler's Contingency Theory (LPC
Theory of Leadership)
One of the main differences between the Michigan Studies
and the Ohio State Studies was how they classified the
two broad categories of behaviors that they identified. -
...ANSWER...✓✓ The Michigan Studies identified that
Task-Oriented and People-Oriented behaviors were on
different ends of a single continuum, while the Ohio State
Studies classified these two behaviors as independent,
each being on a separate continuum.
After the disappointing results of the trait-based and
behavioral approaches to leadership, scholars began to
specifically incorporate the role of the environment into
leadership theories. One of the first of these contingency
approaches to leadership was Fiedler's Contingency
Model (also called the LPC Theory of Leadership),
developed by Fred Fiedler in the 1960s.
One of the most important contributions from Fiedler's
Contingency Model is that - ...ANSWER...✓✓ it explicitly
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recognized that leadership effectiveness depends (or is
contingent upon) the favorability of the situation.
According to Fiedler, a task-oriented leader would only
be successful if the situation called for a task-oriented
leader.
Which position on the Managerial Grid is sometimes
described as the ideal style of management, where both
task-oriented and people-oriented behaviors are high? -
...ANSWER...✓✓ team management
According to John P. Kotter in "What Leaders Really Do,"
management involves all the following except -
...ANSWER...✓✓ setting direction
A significant difference between Fiedler's Contingency
Theory and many of the other contingency leadership
theories, including Situational Leadership and House's
Path-Goal Theory is that - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Fiedler's
Contingency Theory assumes that a leader's style is fixed
and does not change, while Situational Leadership and
House's Path-Goal Theory assumes a leader can vary
their style depending on the situation.
, 4|Page
After scholars became disillusioned with the trait-based
approaches to leadership in the 1940s, they began to
focus on behavioral approaches to leadership by trying to
determine the behaviors of effective leaders. Through the
work of researchers at Ohio State University and the
University of Michigan, two broad categories of leadership
behaviors were identified. These two categories are: -
...ANSWER...✓✓ Task-oriented behaviors and people-
oriented behaviors.
According to John P. Kotter in "What Leaders Really Do,"
management and leadership both involve deciding what
needs to be done, creating networks of people to
accomplish the agenda, and ensuring that the work
actually gets done. - ...ANSWER...✓✓ true
Vroom and Yetton's Decision Model approach to
leadership has leaders answer seven key questions,
working their way though a decision tree based on their
responses, to determine which of five different leadership
styles would be appropriate in the specific situation. -
...ANSWER...✓✓ true
According to The Leadership Challenge by Kouzes and
Posner, leadership can not be learned. You are born with
