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Leadership 101 Practice Test: Power and Leadership 2
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Leadership 101 Practice Test: Power and Leadership 2
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1. Personal sources of power are likely to disappear when a manager loses his/her position in the organization.
2. Leaders in the middle of their career must focus on how to give up power to others.
3. The most common and serious consequence of power corruption is poor decision making.
4. Organizations that implement empowerment often have to lower their performance standards.
5. Power and influence are primarily the domain of formal leaders within organizations.
6. The French and Germans expect their bosses to provide answers to their questions.
7. Semco provides employees with freedom and empowerment and sets high performance expectations.
8. Follower compliance contributes to power corruption by increasing the leaders
9. Considerable research about empowerment shows its positive impact on organizations.
10. Although there is not strong research support, many organizations believe that empowerment leads to higher employee motivation.
11. Managers who abuse power perform well because they surround themselves with highly competent followers.
12. Followers who do not depend on their leader are less likely to contribute to the corruption cycle.
13. In order to increase commitment, one of the most effective methods of persuasion is coalition building.
14. The Chinese, Japanese, and Indonesians are all collectivistic cultures where employees are comfortable sharing power with their leader.
15. Referent power is based on a person
16. Semco and its CEO Ricardo Semler provide an example of how empowerment can work with little training but good intentions.
17. Richard Scrushy of HealthSouth instituted effective ways to battle corruption.
18. The factor in organizational structure that contributes to power corruption is the degree of centralization.
19. Because XYZ corporation has reduced its employees
20. Donald Carty of American Airlines had developed a separate sense of morality.
21. The new CEO of American Airlines, Gerard Arprey is focusing on correcting the corruption that was the part of the administration of his predecessor by putting in place a clear code of ethics.
22. Teams can rely on individual sources of power to maintain power and be effective.
23. The most likely reactions to using reward and coercion as source of power are compliance and resistance.
24. Top executives have and primarily use the same sources of power as individuals and teams.
25. Power is the ability to influence others effectively.