Burns outlined leadership in his seminal work in 1978 and described leadership as
a. Quite different from power
b. Quite similar to power
c. Equivalent to power
d. About use of power and authority
Question 2You communicate well with your followers by encouraging their work and helping them plan out their daily tasks. Which leader behavioral style are you using?
a. Delegating
b. Directing
c. Supporting
d. Coaching
Question 3The directive and supportive behaviors in situational approach
a. Are applied separately depending on followers' needs
b. Are applied to the same degree in the supportive behavioral style
c. Must be applied together depending on the followers' needs
d. Must be applied to the same degree in the directive behavioral style
Question 4Under servant leadership, followers may become servant leaders themselves. This is an example of what?
a. Organizational performance
b. Leadership duplication
c. Follower performance and growth
d. Societal impact
Question 5In the Leadership Grid, a person who uses but does not integrate the 1, 9 and 9, 1 behavioral styles of leadership could be called a benevolent dictator.
a. True
b. False
Question 6Pseudotransformational leadership
a. Aids followers in an exclusively superficial way.
b. Is socialized leadership concerned with the collective good.
c. Focuses on the leaders own interests rather than the interests of others.
d. Is an ineffective form of leadership.
Question 7Situational Leadership comprises both directive and supportive dimensions
a. That are behaviorally similar to task and relationship behaviors in the behavioral approach
b. That are applied in the same way to all followers
c. That are used separately depending on the followers' needs
d. That are applied to followers who are not sure what their task needs are
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