Ashford University MGT 415 - WK 3 Quiz

Ashford University MGT 415 - WK 3 Quiz

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.