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Leadership 101 Practice Test: Early Theories of Modern Leadership 2
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Leadership 101 Practice Test: Early Theories of Modern Leadership 2
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1. Professionals who have experience in their task often do not rely on their leader.
2. Leaders tend to be harsher on employees and blame them for errors when the leader
3. Using judgments based on intuition and experience can help leaders avoid attributional biases in evaluating their followers.
4. Followers
5. Consideration and initiation of structure are the two primary leadership behaviors.
6. The early research of Lewin and his associates about leadership behaviors clearly identified three different types of leadership behaviors.
7. Traits do not guarantee that a person will become a leader, let alone an effective leader.
8. If the leader has power, he/she does not have to worry about other aspects of the situation.
9. Consideration behavior includes things such as looking out for the welfare of team members and making expectations clear.
10. A high LPC person draws self-esteem from accomplishing the task.
11. The LBDQ is rarely used in current leadership research.
12. Leader consideration is generally associated with follower satisfaction.
13. High quality LMX relationship sometimes even extends to social networks outside of work.
14. The two central contingency factors in the Normative Decision Model are quality of the decision and need for acceptance and commitment by followers.
15. The development of personality testing helped in the development of the trait approach to leadership.
16. The BARS continues to be used as a measure of leadership behaviors.
17. Most countries in the world try to avoid nepotism in their organizational practices.
18. In most cultures, leaders pick the followers they trust based on competence and performance.
19. According to Fiedler, situational control is made up of three factors.
20. According to the Normative Decision Model, the autocratic decision style can involve either the leader making the decision without any information from followers, or the leader asking for information, but making the decision alone.
21. According to the Contingency Model, middle LPC are more effective than either low or high-LPCs
22. Prior to the industrial revolution, interest in leadership relied on intuition and a description of existing practice.
23. The case of Michael Eisner and Michael Ovitz at Disney provides an example of the potential negative consequences of in-groups.
24. A cohesive team can act as a substitute for leader consideration.
25. The development of a relationship between leaders and followers typically takes place in three stages.