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1
The personal leadership style of an organization's founder frequently has a long-time effect on the organization.
A)True
B)False
2
Blake and Mouton's Managerial Grid focuses on concern for people and concern for production.
A)True
B)False
3
Path-goal theory is a contingency model of leadership.
A)True
B)False
4
Transformational managers are typically charismatic leaders.
A)True
B)False
5
Research has shown that male managers and female managers differ significantly in the performance of leader behaviors.
A)True
B)False
6
When a manager gives a subordinate a pay raise at the end of the fiscal year, this is an example of what type of power?
A)Reward
B)Coercive
C)Referent
D)Expert
7
In terms of initiating structure and consideration, managers can be:
A)high on both.
B)low on both.
C)high on one and low on the other.
D)all of these.
8
Fiedler measured leadership style by asking managers to rate which type of subordinate with whom they had had the most difficulty working?
A)MBO
B)PERT
C)CHA
D)LPC
9
When a manager expresses concern for the well-being of subordinates and gives them opportunities to improve their capabilities and to excel on the job, that manager is expressing:
A)empowerment.
B)position power.
C)developmental consideration.
D)coercion.
10
The so-called "invisible barrier" that prevents women from being promoted to positions of top management in companies (which research has failed to support) is called the:
A)glass ceiling.
B)Hawthorne effect.
C)task effect.
D)empowerment principle.





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