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• Which is one of the earliest attempts to fashion a theory of leadership?
• Situational Leadership®
• transformational leadership
• discursive leadership
• trait theory

ANSWER: d

• A common theme across research and commentary from Maureen Dowd, Alexandra Murphy, and Angela

Trethewey is that leaders tend to be

• physically attractive.
• the best "man" for the job.
• from upper-middle-class families.
• the person with the most power.

ANSWER: a

• Leadership theorists Ralph White and Ronald Lippitt have argued that leadership styles should be viewed as a

continuum from autocratic to democratic to

• communism.
• laissez-faire.
• authoritarian.
• anarchy.

ANSWER: b

• Laissez-faire was the style of government of which country during World War II?
• The United States
• Great Britain
• France
• Germany

ANSWER: c

• According to Blake and Mouton, all of these are styles of leadership EXCEPT

• Country Club Management.
• Impoverished Management.
• Empowered Management.
• Organization Man Management.

ANSWER: c

• Which option suggests that effective leadership emerges from behavior that is responsive to varied situations?
• trait theory
• transformational leadership 1 / 2

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• discursive leadership
• Situational Leadership®

ANSWER: d

• Which type of leader has a singular ability to communicate vision as a way of inspiring others?
• transformational
• transactional
• natural-born
• situational

ANSWER: a

• According to the text, which of these is being used to describe the "new type of leader" who seeks to lead an

organization through an increasingly turbulent environment?

• boundary spanner
• democratic leader
• situational leader
• change agent

ANSWER: d

• Which of these types of leadership is characterized by the social, linguistic, and cultural aspects of leadership

as reflected in concrete interactional processes?

• discursive
• transformational
• democratic
• authoritarian

ANSWER: a

• Leaders often develop unique combinations of habits that make them memorable as leaders. Which of these

is NOT one of those habits?

• habits of mind
• habits of empathy
• habits of character
• habits of authentic communicative performance

ANSWER: b

• Which of these characteristics of a leader is especially important because of its inspirational qualities?
• directness
• supportiveness
• modesty
• physical attractiveness

ANSWER: c

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