Ashford MGT 415 WeeK 3 Quiz (2014)

1. What are some examples of widespread oppression?

slavery
apartheid
genocide
all of the above

2. How many “bases”
of power are there?

2
6
4
8

3. Growth takes
____________, not ____________.

leadership, management
management,
leadership
innate abilities,
inborn abilities
telling, selling

4.__________ are your
ability to help the group achieve its goals and maintain effective working
relationships among members.

managing skills
leadership skills
following skills
hindering skills

5.Rex is in a
high-level management position at his company. He believes that he was born
with the capacity to influence others, and that his innate social abilities
have led to his success on the job. What approach to power does Rex’s opinion
exemplify?

inborn influence
social exchange
trait-power
trait-factor

6. Alina is the
leader of a small group. She is usually considerate, encouraging, and engaged
with the other members of the group and the decisions that are made.
Occasionally though, she lets the group make decisions without her. Alina’s
leadership style could be described as:

Autocratic with
elements of democracy
generally democratic, sometimes laissez-faire
typically
laissez-faire, occasionally autocratic
democratic with
instances fo permissiveness

7. _________ defined
leadership as the ability to move the masses (through peruasion or violence).

Ho Chi Minh
Niccolo Machiavelli
Julius Caesar
Adolf Hitler

8. _________ embodies
a leader whose actions spoke louder than words.

Harriet Beecher
Stowe
Harriet Tubman
Fred Fiedler
Robert Bales

9. “Power exists in
relationships, not in individuals, and constructive use of power requires a
cooperative context.” These principles are the basis for what theory?

the trait-factor
approach to power
the dynamic-interdependence approach to power

constructive/destructive relationship theory
social exchange theory

10. The
“great-person” theory implies that _________.

great leaders are
made and developed
all the really great
leaders have already lived and died
great leaders are born and discovered
great leaders don’t
exist.