- Description
LDR 300 Wk 2 – Practice: Knowledge Check
Followers are highly likely to use _____ power to change their leader’s behavior if they have a relatively high amount of referent power with their fellow coworkers.
Multiple Choice
- expert
- coercive
- reward
- legitimate
A leader who has developed close interpersonal relationships with followers generally uses his or her _____ power to influence them.
Multiple Choice
- reward
- coercive
- legitimate
- referent
Unlike consultation, coalition tactics are most likely used when agents
Multiple Choice
- seek the aid or support of others to influence their targets.
- use threats or persistent reminders to influence targets.
- attempt to get targets in a good mood before making requests.
- make proposals that are designed to arouse enthusiasm or emotions in targets.
A police officer giving a speeding ticket to a driver is most likely using his or her
Multiple Choice
- coercive power.
- expert power.
- referent power.
- reward power.
Which of the following statements is true of coercive power?
Multiple Choice
- It refers to the ability of an individual to influence others through his or her relative expertise in particular areas.
- It has the possibility to be used by followers to influence their leader’s behavior.
- It is directly proportional to the strength of the relationship between leaders and followers.
- It refers to the potential to influence others due to one’s control over desired resources.
Dr. Jonathon realizes that his patient is suffering from a highly contagious disease that is likely to pose a threat to the entire city. However, he is uncertain about sharing this information with city officials to protect his patient’s privacy. In this scenario, which of the following ethical dilemmas does the doctor most likely face?
Multiple Choice
- justice versus mercy
- short-term versus long-term
- truth versus loyalty
- individual versus community
Which of the following generation of workers tends to be technologically savvy, independent, and skeptical of institutions and hierarchy?
Multiple Choice
- the Gen Xers
- the Baby Boomers
- the Veterans
- the Millennials
According to Zemke’s four generations of workers, which of the following statements is most likely true of the Veterans?
Multiple Choice
- They are most likely latchkey kids.
- They tend to be more committed to their vocation than to any specific organization.
- They represent a wealth of lore and wisdom.
- They are entrepreneurial, and they embrace change.
Which of the following is an approach, developed and popularized by Covey, which postulates a fundamental interdependence between the personal, the interpersonal, the managerial, and the organizational levels of leadership?
Multiple Choice
- the constructionist approach
- principle-centered leadership
- upward ethical leadership
- the role approach
Hall and Donnell reported findings of five separate studies involving over 12,000 managers that explored the relationship between managerial achievement and attitudes toward subordinates. Overall, they found that managers who strongly subscribed to Theory X beliefs
Multiple Choice
- were highly likely to be in their lower-achieving group.
- were unlikely to have a pessimistic view of others.
- were highly likely to believe that workers were naturally motivated to work.
- were unlikely to rely on coercive, external control methods to motivate workers.