Public Leadership Quiz Paper

User Shacola Columbus
Course PAF 420: Public Leadership (2013 Fall)
Test Quiz 4 (Weeks 11-13)
Started 12/8/13 6:28 PM
Submitted 12/8/13 7:27 PM
Status Completed
Attempt Score 9.5 out of 15 points
Time Elapsed 59 minutes out of 1 hour
Instructions
Question 1
0.5 out of 0.5 points The research on female and male leadership has generally tended to focus on establishing differences between women and men.
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Correct True
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Correct True
Question 2
0.5 out of 0.5 points The five principles of ethical leadership include all of the following except
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Correct Acts courageously.
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Correct Acts courageously.
Question 3
0 out of 0.5 points Virtue-based theories
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Incorrect Focus on the actions
of the leader.
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Correct Are about the leader's character.
Question 4
0.5 out of 0.5 points Meta-analysis shows that women are substantially more effective than men in middle management positions.
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Correct True
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Correct True
Question 5
0.5 out of 0.5 points The cultural dimension in which organizations encourage and reward members for excellence is
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Correct Performance orientation.
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Correct Performance orientation.
Question 6
0.5 out of 0.5 points Culture and leadership focus on a collection of related ideas rather than a single unified theory.
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Correct True
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Correct True
Question 7
0.5 out of 0.5 points Greenleaf 's theory of servant leadership
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Correct Says leaders should be concerned with society's “have-nots.”
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Correct Says leaders should be concerned with society's “have-nots.”
Question 8
0.5 out of 0.5 points Which of the following is not a reason why ethics is central to leadership?
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Correct
The existence of bottom up communication.
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The existence of bottom up communication.
Question 9
0 out of 0.5 points Which of the following leadership traits or skills is more likely to belong to men than to women?
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Incorrect Intelligence
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Correct Authoritative
Question 10
0 out of 0.5
points According to the text, the conceptualization of leadership used by GLOBE was derived in part from
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Incorrect Transformational leadership theory.
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Correct Implicit leadership theory.
Question 11
0.5 out of 0.5 points The theory of virtue-based ethics suggests that practicing good values leads to increased virtuousness.
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Correct True
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Correct True
Question 12
0 out of 0.5 points Five cross-cultural competencies for leaders include all of the following except
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Incorrect Understanding business, political, and cultural environments worldwide.
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Correct Teaching the importance of one's own culture to other cultures.
Question 13
0.5 out of 0.5 points Ethical egoism is concerned with doing the greatest good for the greatest number.
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Correct False
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Correct False
Question 14
0 out of 0.5 points According to the Anglo culture cluster, the least desirable leader behavior is
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Incorrect Humane-oriented leadership.
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Correct Self-protective leadership.
Question 15
0.5 out of 0.5 points Hofstede's benchmark research identified six major dimensions on which cultures differ.
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Correct False
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Correct False
Question 16
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All of organizational research applies equally well to people of all colors, abilities, and sexual orientations.

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Correct False
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Correct False
Question 17
0.5 out of 0.5 points What is not a result found by meta-analysis on characteristics and behaviors of female and male leaders?
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Correct Women evaluated favorably when they used directive or autocratic styles.
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Correct Women evaluated favorably when they used directive or autocratic styles.
Question 18
0 out of 0.5 points Giving an employee a merit-based pay raise is an example of
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Incorrect Altruism.
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Correct Distributive justice.
Question 19
0.5 out of 0.5 points

Ethical theories fall within two broad domains:

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Correct

Conduct and character

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Correct

Conduct and character

Question 20
0 out of 0.5 points Andy owns Islander Surfboard Inc. In the past, Andy has always given his employees bonuses during the holidays if they reached certain sales goals. This year, even though the company is thriving, he decided to cut bonuses from employees and award them to himself instead. What ethical theory of leadership is Andy following?
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Incorrect Ethical egoism
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Correct None. This is an unethical decision.
Question 21
0 out of 0.5 points Women are stereotyped with agentic characteristics.
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Incorrect True
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Correct False
Question 22
0.5 out of 0.5 points A major factor in the need for increased cross-cultural awareness is
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Correct Increase of globalization.
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Correct Increase of globalization.
Question 23
0.5 out of 0.5 points When both genders use an autocratic, directive leadership style, females are evaluated differently than men.
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Correct True
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Correct True
Question 24
0 out of 0.5 points The construct of servant leadership can be summarized as an altruistic calling.
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Incorrect False
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Correct True
Question 25
0.5 out of 0.5 points Conduct and character are the two domains of ethical theory.
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Correct True
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Correct True
Question 26
0.5 out of 0.5 points Teleological theories include all of the following except
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Correct Ethical egalitarianism
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Correct Ethical egalitarianism
Question 27
0 out of 0.5 points Norma and Joel work in a legal firm. They both are aware of a potential promotion coming up soon. In the last project they did, Joel put most of the paperwork on Norma, and she gladly took on the extra workload. However, when their boss was complimenting the project, Norma let Joel take the credit and acted as if they both did the same amount of work. This is an example of what advancement barrier for Norma?
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Incorrect Gender stereotypes
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Correct Self-promotion
Question 28
0.5 out of 0.5 points Ethnocentrism can be a major obstacle to effective leadership.
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Correct True
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Correct True
Question 29
0.5 out of 0.5 points Diversity is an approach or system that concentrates on one culture.
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Correct False
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Correct False
Question 30
0 out of 0.5 points According to research, one way women can advance in leadership is
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Incorrect By strongly resisting stereotype threats.
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Correct By blending individualized consideration with inspirational motivation.
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