Leadership Experience 7th Edition By Richard L. Daft – Test Bank

1. Intellectual stimulation, a leadership quality, means questioning current methods and challenging employees to think in new ways.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
RATIONALE: Intellectual stimulation, a leadership quality, means questioning current methods and challenging employees to think in new ways. In a survey, female leaders were rated as having more idealized influence, providing more inspirational motivation, being more individually considerate, and offering more intellectual stimulation.
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: p. 339
QUESTION TYPE: True / False
HAS VARIABLES: False
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: LEAD.DAFT.18.11.03
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States – BUSPROG: Reflective Thinking
STATE STANDARDS: United States – AK – DISC: Motivation Concepts – DISC: Environmental Influence
TOPICS: 11-4 Ways Women Lead
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Knowledge
DATE CREATED: 7/5/2016 1:02 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/5/2016 1:02 PM

2. Glass walls offer experience in areas such as line supervision that would enable women to advance to senior-level positions.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
RATIONALE: Research has also suggested the existence of ‘‘glass walls’’ that serve as invisible barriers to important lateral movement within the organization. Glass walls bar experience in areas such as line supervision or general management that would enable women and minorities to advance to senior-level positions.
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: p. 334
QUESTION TYPE: True / False
HAS VARIABLES: False
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: LEAD.DAFT.18.11.01
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States – BUSPROG: Reflective Thinking
STATE STANDARDS: United States – AK – DISC: Motivation Concepts – DISC: Environmental Influence
TOPICS: 11-3 Challenges Minorities Face
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Knowledge
DATE CREATED: 7/5/2016 1:02 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/5/2016 1:02 PM

3. Women leaders tend to be competitive and prefer vertical hierarchies.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
RATIONALE: In general, women prefer less competitive environments than men, tend to be more collaborative, and are more concerned with relationship building, inclusiveness, participation, and caring.
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: p. 340
QUESTION TYPE: True / False
HAS VARIABLES: False
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: LEAD.DAFT.18.11.03
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States – BUSPROG: Reflective Thinking
STATE STANDARDS: United States – AK – DISC: Motivation Concepts – DISC: Environmental Influence
TOPICS: 11-4 Ways Women Lead
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Comprehension
DATE CREATED: 7/5/2016 1:02 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/5/2016 1:02 PM

4. Female leaders are typically rated lower by subordinates on interpersonal skills as well as on factors such as task behavior, communication, and goal accomplishment.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
RATIONALE: Female leaders were rated as having more idealized influence, providing more inspirational motivation, being more individually considerate, and offering more intellectual stimulation.
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: p. 339
QUESTION TYPE: True / False
HAS VARIABLES: False
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: LEAD.DAFT.18.11.03
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States – BUSPROG: Reflective Thinking
STATE STANDARDS: United States – AK – DISC: Leadeship Principles
TOPICS: 11-4 Ways Women Lead
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Knowledge
DATE CREATED: 7/5/2016 1:02 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/5/2016 1:02 PM

5. According to Hofstede’s social value system, high uncertainty avoidance reflects a value for a loosely knit social framework in which individuals are expected to take care of themselves.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
RATIONALE: According to Hofstede’s social value system, high uncertainty avoidance means that members of a society feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and ambiguity and thus support beliefs and behaviors that promise certainty and conformity.
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: p. 344
QUESTION TYPE: True / False
HAS VARIABLES: False
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: LEAD.DAFT.18.11.04
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States – BUSPROG: Reflective Thinking
STATE STANDARDS: United States – AK – DISC: Motivation Concepts – DISC: Environmental Influence
TOPICS: 11-5 Global Diversity
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Comprehension
DATE CREATED: 7/5/2016 1:02 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/5/2016 1:02 PM

6. All leaders need to be aware of the impact that culture may have and consider cultural values in their dealings with employees.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
RATIONALE: All leaders need to be aware of the impact that culture may have and consider cultural values in their dealings with employees and colleagues. To lead effectively in a diverse global environment, leaders should be aware of cultural and subcultural differences.
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: pp. 345
QUESTION TYPE: True / False
HAS VARIABLES: False
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: LEAD.DAFT.18.11.04
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States – BUSPROG: Reflective Thinking
STATE STANDARDS: United States – AK – DISC: Motivation Concepts – DISC: Environmental Influence
TOPICS: 11-5 Global Diversity
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Comprehension
DATE CREATED: 7/5/2016 1:02 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/5/2016 1:02 PM

7. It is imperative that leaders in international organizations learn to understand local cultures and deal with them effectively.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
RATIONALE: In a multicultural environment, leaders will be most successful if they are culturally flexible and able to easily adapt to new situations and ways of doing things. Cultural intelligence refers to a person’s ability to use reasoning and observation skills to interpret unfamiliar gestures and situations and devise appropriate behavioral responses.
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: p. 344
QUESTION TYPE: True / False
HAS VARIABLES: False
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: LEAD.DAFT.18.11.04
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States – BUSPROG: Reflective Thinking
STATE STANDARDS: United States – AK – DISC: Motivation Concepts – DISC: Environmental Influence
TOPICS: 11-5 Global Diversity
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Comprehension
DATE CREATED: 7/5/2016 1:02 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/5/2016 1:02 PM

8. At stage 2 of personal diversity awareness, people are capable of integrating differences and adapting both cognitively and behaviorally.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
RATIONALE: At stage 2 of personal diversity awareness, people attempt to minimize differences and focus on the similarities among all people. This is the stage where unconscious and subtle bias is most evident because people have moved beyond openly prejudicial attitudes.
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: pp.347–348
QUESTION TYPE: True / False
HAS VARIABLES: False
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: LEAD.DAFT.18.11.05
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States – BUSPROG: Reflective Thinking
STATE STANDARDS: United States – AK – DISC: Motivation Concepts – DISC: Environmental Influence
TOPICS: 11-6 Becoming an Inclusive Leader
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Analysis
DATE CREATED: 7/5/2016 1:02 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/29/2016 3:40 PM

9. In interactive leadership, the leader favors a consensual and collaborative process.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
RATIONALE: In interactive leadership, the leader favors a consensual and collaborative process, and influence derives from relationships rather than position power and authority. Some psychologists have suggested that women may be more relationship oriented than men because of different psychological needs stemming from early experiences.
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: p. 340
QUESTION TYPE: True / False
HAS VARIABLES: False
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: LEAD.DAFT.18.11.03
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States – BUSPROG: Reflective Thinking
STATE STANDARDS: United States – AK – DISC: Motivation Concepts – DISC: Environmental Influence
TOPICS: 11-4 Ways Women Lead
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Knowledge
DATE CREATED: 7/5/2016 1:02 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/5/2016 1:02 PM

10. A benefit of employee affinity groups is that people often obtain sponsors through their affiliation with the groups.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
RATIONALE: A benefit of employee affinity groups is that people often obtain sponsors through their affiliation with the groups. Employee affinity groups are based on social identity, such as gender or race, and are organized to focus on the concerns of employees from that group.
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: pp. 349–350
QUESTION TYPE: True / False
HAS VARIABLES: False
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: LEAD.DAFT.18.11.06
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States – BUSPROG: Reflective Thinking
STATE STANDARDS: United States – AK – DISC: Motivation Concepts – DISC: Environmental Influence
TOPICS: 11-7 Ways to Encourage the Advancement of Women and Minorities
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Analysis
DATE CREATED: 7/5/2016 1:02 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 7/29/2016 3:41 PM