Deck 4: Behavioral Approach

Question 1

Which leadership style, according to Blake and Mouton, includes rewards and approval for people in return for their loyalty and obedience?

A) Middle-of-the-road
B) Opportunism
C) Paternalism/maternalism
D) Authority/compliance
E) None of the above

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Grid seminars are training and development programs that make use of the styles approach. These seminars are done through the use of ____________ findings.

A) Ohio State studies
B) University of Michigan studies
C) Black and Mouton's
D) Fisher's
E) Mumford's

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Jim is a manager of a Wendy's. He is very concerned with efficiency and making employees happy.

A) Jim is a compromiser.
B) Jim is a country club manager.
C) Jim is a high-high style leader.
D) Jim is low in initiating structure and high in consideration.
E) Jim is an impoverished leader.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

__________ refers to a leader who uses any combination of the basic five styles for the purpose of personal advancement.

A) Middle-of-the-road management
B) Maternalism
C) Opportunism
D) Team management
E) Paternalism

Question 5

Researchers at Ohio State University developed a questionnaire called the LBDQ. The letters "LBDQ" stand for what?

A) Leader-based detail questionnaire
B) Leadership-biased descriptive questionnaire
C) Leadership-based diagnostic questionnaire
D) Leadership behavior description questionnaire
E) Leadership-based description questionnaire

Question 6

Before the inception of the style approach, leadership was treated exclusively as a(n)

A) Personality trait
B) Sets of skills
C) Process
D) Ability
E) Relationship

Question 7

Each day of the week you meet with your direct supervisor and your coworkers for a morning meeting. The meeting is open-forum and issues, goals, topics, and ideas are all discussed at the meeting, during which the supervisor responds when able and asks for feedback often. This is an example of

A) Authority-compliance management
B) Team management
C) Country-club management
D) Middle-of-the-road management
E) Impoverished management

Question 8

Sara is criticized for shifting her management style too much and is known as a leader who watches out for herself. She is a

A) 1,9 leader
B) 9,1 leader
C) 9,9 leader
D) Paternalistic leader
E) Opportunistic leader

Question 9

Which of the following behaviors is not associated with the opportunistic leadership style?

A) The leader shifts his or her style to gain personal advantage.
B) The leader may be perceived as ruthless and cunning.
C) The leader may be perceived as adaptable and strategic.
D) The leader puts self-interest ahead of other-interest.
E) The leader stresses the importance of social needs.

Question 10

Styles approach does all of the following, except

A) Broaden the field of leadership research to include behaviors
B) Supports itself through a range of studies
C) Emphasizes the importance of task and relationship behavior
D) Identifies a universal set of leadership behaviors
E) Provides framework in which we can examine our leadership

Question 11

Your boss listens to employees personal problems and tries to create a positive work environment by being agreeable, eager to help, comforting, and uncontroversial. This is an example of

A) Authority-compliance management
B) Team management
C) Country-club management
D) Middle-of-the-road management
E) Impoverished management

Question 12

Larry dislikes giving instructions to employees. He is uncomfortable with

A) Process behavior
B) Task behavior
C) The nondirective approach
D) Relationship behavior
E) Group process

Question 13

What two types of leadership behavior were identified by the program of research at Michigan?

A) Employee orientation and production orientation
B) Initiating structure and consideration
C) High task and low task
D) Concern for people and concern for task
E) Paternalistic and maternalistic

Question 14

Which scholar(s) created the Leadership Grid?

A) Stogdill
B) Blake and Mouton
C) French and Raven
D) Kotter
E) Ohio State University researchers

Question 15

You are required to report directly to your supervisor every morning. Upon arrival he gives you a large list of tasks to be completed by the end of the day; he states he will be checking in after lunch to see your progress. This is an example of

A) Authority-compliance management
B) Team management
C) Country-club management
D) Middle-of-the-road-management
E) Impoverished management

Question 16

Paternalistic and maternalistic use both ______ and ______ but never combine the two.

A) 1,1 and 5,5
B) 9,9 and 9,1
C) 5,5 and 1,9
D) 1,9 and 9,1
E) 1,1 and 9,9

Question 17

The Ohio State studies considered the behaviors of consideration and initiating structure as :

A) Cause and effect
B) Distinct and independent
C) High value and low value
D) Interdependent
E) Contradictory

Question 18

The University of Michigan studies explored how leadership functioned in

A) Organizations
B) Follower interactions
C) Dyadic relationships
D) Small groups
E) Political environments

Question 19

The director of your department attends one weekly meeting. The director is seldom at the office outside of the meeting and rarely responds to e-mails when you send questions pertaining to the organization. This is an example of

A) Authority-compliance management
B) Team management
C) Country-club management
D) Middle-of-the-road management
E) Impoverished management

Question 20

Middle-of-the-road management best describes leaders who are

A) Avoiding
B) Empathetic
C) Compromising
D) Competitive
E) Accommodating

Question 21

Defend or refute: Opportunistic leadership can be justified in certain situations.

Question 22

According to the Leadership Grid, opportunistic leaders rely primarily on the 5,5 style of leadership.

Question 23

Who developed the Leadership Behavior Description Questionnaire (LBDQ)?

A) Ohio State studies
B) Stogdill
C) University of Michigan studies
D) Blake and Mouton
E) Katz

Question 24

Which leadership style would be most difficult to change?

Question 25

The style approach reminds leaders that

A) Personality is the essence of effective leadership.
B) Who they are is more important than what they do.
C) Task behaviors are more important than relationship behaviors.
D) Leaders should adapt their behaviors to what the situation requires.
E) The high-high style is the best style of leadership.

Question 26

Daily meetings, open communication, face-to-face interaction, and accessibility are all behaviors of which type of leader?

A) Task
B) Relationship
C) Opportunistic
D) Paternalistic/maternalistic
E) Production orientation

Question 27

The style approach has failed to identify a universally effective leadership style.

Question 28

In the Leadership Grid, the 9,9 type of leader prefers the middle ground, soft-pedals disagreement, and swallows convictions in the interest of progress.

Question 29

The style approach is not heuristic.

Question 30

Assisting group members in building cohesiveness is primarily a task behavior.

Question 31

The style approach has been validated by a wide range of studies.

Question 32

Write a scenario in which middle-of-the-road management style would be the optimal choice. How would it be preferable to each of the other four leadership styles on the grid?

Question 33

The style approach suggests that leadership cannot be explained by any list of personality traits.

Question 34

According to Blake and Mouton, the "authority-compliance manager" is highly concerned with people and has little concern for results.

Question 35

In the Leadership Grid, a person who uses but does not integrate the 1,9 and 9,1 styles of leadership could be called a "benevolent dictator."

Question 36

Who explored leadership behavior on performance of small groups?

A) Ohio State studies
B) Stogdill
C) University of Michigan studies
D) Blake and Mouton
E) Katz