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Masters Degree MBA Quiz on Leadership, created by Clair Hat on 07/04/2016.
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Question 1

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What is a leader?
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  • The owner of a company
  • A person who follows the commands of other people
  • Someone who has followers
  • Someone who cannot persuade other people to do things

Question 2

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Which of the following is a trait of a leader?
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  • The ability to alienate, confuse or make other people angry
  • Vision, and the ability to guide others towards making that vision a reality
  • Avoiding decisions that may change things
  • Being able to only find fault in other people and their ideas

Question 3

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Which roles do leaders play in their organisations?
Answer
  • Set the strategic vision and goals of the company
  • Organising people and staffing issues to get the job done
  • Set plans and budgets in the short-term goals of the company
  • Bring about order and consistency in the company

Question 4

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Leaders are born with different characteristics or traits from other people
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  • True
  • False

Question 5

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An organisation is dominated by one central leader. This type of leadership is:
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  • Autocratic
  • Democratic
  • Collaborative
  • Laissez-Faire

Question 6

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Democratic leadership is characterised by...
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  • A leader's source of power being derived from their position in the organisation
  • A general lack of leadership activity - followers are left to decide their own priorities and methods for undertaking work
  • The leader is just another member of the group and has no more power than anyone else
  • Encourages group participation and makes decision on the group opinion (majority rules)

Question 7

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Contingency leadership says....
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  • Leaders and methods are the same no matter what type of situation occurs
  • You need the right kind of leader for certain situations and need to change leadership as the situation changes
  • All leaders have specific traits that they are born with and do not need to change with the situation
  • That leadership is not as important as the situation and no formal leader needs to be n charge

Question 8

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Transactional leadership is different from transformational leadership because...
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  • Transactional leaders initiate and drive organisational change while transformational leaders motivate followers to accomplish goals by clarifying roles and task requirements.
  • Transactional leaders look for deviations from procedures and then take corrective action while transformational leaders are controversial as their leadership always involves change and conflict
  • Transactional leaders articulate a vision while transformational leaders exchange rewards and promises to manage the delivery of organizational goals.
  • Transactional leaders form emotional attachments with followers while transformational leaders intervene only if standards are not met.

Question 9

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Transformational leaders...
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  • Motivate followers to accomplish goals by clarifying role and task requirements
  • Have a laissez – faire approach to responsibilities and decisions
  • Articulate a vision and align it with the followers' value systems
  • Recognize only accomplishments.

Question 10

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Why are values important in leadership?
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  • They help define problems and offers solutions that are acceptable to everyone
  • They are not important in leadership and get in the way of making decisions
  • They have minimal importance and only are used when we talk about CSR.
  • Values only apply in a person’s personal life and have no application at work.

Question 11

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Stakeholders are...
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  • Foreign governments
  • The people who work for competing companies
  • Everyone
  • The people who work directly for an organisation

Question 12

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The triple bottom line model is...
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  • Used to justify only following profit and ignoring everything else
  • An examination of the environmental, social, and economic benefits using that to determine success
  • A method that uses a SWOT analysis, a PESTEL analysis and Porters 5 forces to determine successful business models.
  • An examination of cost cutting measures to increase profitability of an organization.

Question 13

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Porter's five forces model examines:
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  • The strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, social cultural issues and threats facing an organization
  • The political, economic, social, environmental and technologic factors facing an organization
  • The strength of new competitors, the power of suppliers, the power of buyers, the threat of new products, and the strength of the industry
  • The buying power of your company versus the selling power of your product.

Question 14

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A SWOT analysis is useful because it:
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  • Examines your organizations current situation from two perspectives, Internal and external, while looking at strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
  • Examines the strategy of the organization in relation to its place in the industry and examines the power of the suppliers, the competitors and the threat of new products
  • Examines the organizations political, economic, sociocultural, technological, environmental and legal perspectives
  • Examines the ability to focus on stakeholder involvement through a process of continuous quality management.

Question 15

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Communication is a process. The process is from the sender to the receiver
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  • Encoding- transmission- decoding- feedback
  • Decoding- transmission- feedback- encoding
  • Feedback- decoding- transmission- encoding
  • Transmission- encoding- decoding- feedback

Question 16

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A clear vision and mission statement are not important to the success of an organization
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  • True
  • False

Question 17

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To transmit messages clearly, leaders need to:
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  • Select an inappropriate communication channel
  • Have long, wandering messages that leave a lot up to interpretation
  • Use vague language that could insult people
  • Have clear, concise, simple messages on appropriate channels.

Question 18

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Assertive communication is...
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  • The best way to communicate.
  • Structured in a way that the individual takes responsibility or “I” statements
  • By using “We” and “the team” phrases
  • Passive

Question 19

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Effective listening means...
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  • Stop talking and remove distractions
  • Pay attention to the purpose and the words used.
  • Remain open, flexible and observant
  • All of the answers
  • None of the answers

Question 20

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Barriers to communication come in many forms, including:
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  • Environmental Barriers (employees located in other places, bad equipment)
  • Organizational Barriers (command chain, formal reporting structure)
  • Individual differences (cultural issues, differences in gender)
  • All of the answers
  • None of the answers

Question 21

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In conflict management, when should a leader use compromise management style?
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  • In a situation that calls for quick, decisive action.
  • In a situation where parties of equal power level are committed to different goals and cannot agree.
  • In a situation where the leader finds out they are wrong.
  • For trivial and unimportant issues.

Question 22

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Effective decisions need to be effectively communicated.
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  • True
  • False

Question 23

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The general decision making model has four phases. Which of the following is NOT one of the phases?
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  • The Input phase.
  • The Processing phase.
  • The Output phase.
  • The Decoding phase.

Question 24

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Autocratic leaders often create a great deal of personal friction between people
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  • True
  • False

Question 25

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Collaborative decision making is
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  • A decision making process where a leader shares their formal decision making power.
  • A decision making process where the leader does not make the final decision, but a person under the leader has the power delegated to them.
  • A decision making process where the leaders have no formal power over the process, but has to negotiate with others to make the decision happen.
  • The leader exercises complete control of the process and does not need any outside help or advice to make decision.

Question 26

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Delegated decision making is:
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  • A decision making process where a leader shares their formal decision making power.
  • A decision making process where the leader does not make the final decision, but a person under the leader has the power to make decisions for the leader.
  • A decision making proves where the leaders have no formal power over the process, but has to negotiate with others to make the decision happen.
  • The leader exercises complete control of the process and does not need any outside help or advice to make decision.

Question 27

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Negotiated decision making is:
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  • A decision making process where a leader shares their formal decision making power.
  • A decision making process where the leader does not make the final decision, but a person under the leader has the power to make decisions for the leader.
  • A decision making proves where the leaders has the opportunity to get a ‘win- lose’ or a ‘win-win’ outcomes.
  • The leader exercises complete control of the process and does not need any outside help or advice to make decision.

Question 28

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Which of the following is a barrier to effective decision making?
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  • A lack of budget
  • A lack of material or equipment
  • Staffing shortages or limitations
  • All of the answers
  • None of the answers

Question 29

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Which type of mental barrier to decision making is the following: A leader has heard that global warming is a hoax. He is determined to keep on that idea even when people show him evidence that he is wrong.
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  • Sunk cost
  • Status quo
  • Framing
  • Anchoring

Question 30

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The charismatic leader possesses the following traits:
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  • Arrogance
  • Low self-esteem
  • A lack of ability
  • All of the answers
  • None of the answers

Question 31

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Which of the following is NOT one of the Porter's five competitive forces?
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  • Bargaining power of suppliers.
  • Threats of new entrants and barriers to entry.
  • Threats of substitutes.
  • Threats of technological advances.

Question 32

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As per Porter and Kramer (2006) what are the main reasons that an organisation should consider their corporate social responsibility obligations : i. Moral obligation: To “do the right thing” ii. Sustainable development: Focused on environment iii. License to operate: Since corporations need approval to do business iv. Reputation: In terms of the company’s image, brand, morale, or stock value.
Answer
  • i,ii and iii only
  • ii ,iii and iv only
  • i and ii only
  • all of the answers

Question 33

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According to Earley and Mosakowski (2004), what are the three main elements to cultural intelligence?
Answer
  • The Mind (cognitive), The body (physical) , The Heart (emotional)
  • Cultural Diversity ,Equal Opportunity, Transparency
  • Social Obligation ,Moral Obligation ,Cultural Intelligence
  • Ability to Observe, Ability to understand, Ability to survive

Question 34

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i.___________is made up of geographically or organisationally dispersed members who share a common purpose & are linked primarily through advanced information & telecommunication technologies ii. ____________ are work teams made up of culturally diverse members who live & work in different countries & coordinate some part of their activities on a global basis
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  • Decisive team, Hierarchic team
  • Integrative team, Job-centred team
  • Virtual team, Global team
  • Task Oriented team, People Oriented team

Question 35

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Which of the following is NOT one of the four main qualities that are important for an authentic leadership as per Goffee and Jones (2005) ?
Answer
  • Manage the perception others have of you
  • Know yourself and others
  • Use where you come from
  • Develop action plans

Question 36

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Which of the following statement reflects the principle of great man theory?
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  • A list of the key things that a leader should do to be great.
  • Refers to the notion that people are born leaders
  • Is concerned about the small details and how to increase productivity
  • Translate vision into something tangible

Question 37

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Theory Y assumes which of the following?
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  • People are committed to organisational activities.
  • People achieve little satisfaction from work.
  • People are poorly motivated.
  • People seek to avoid work.

Question 38

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Leadership is the ability to:
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  • influence others.
  • empower, motivate and inspire their followers to achieve organizational goals.
  • enable others to contribute towards the effectiveness and success of the organization.
  • all of the answers

Question 39

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Blake and Mouton’s Managerial Grid has all of the following management styles EXCEPT:
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  • Country club Management
  • Impoverished Management
  • Middle-of-the-road Management
  • Democratic Management

Question 40

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i._________, are developed over a lifetime and are a result of education and experience. ii._________ is the code of principles and values that governs the behavior of a person or group with respect to what is right or wrong
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  • Morality, motivational goals
  • Values, Ethics
  • Leaders, Authoritarian
  • Cognitive, laissez faire
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