MBA 704- CHAPTER 13 & 14 EXAM 2026|2027 ADVANCED PRACTICE
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE A+ SOLUTIONS 100% CORRECT!!!
Classic Styles: Hersey & Blanchard's life-cycle approach to leaders - Correct Answer -*Situational
approach:
1. Task style: leader organizes and defines roles for members of the work group; explains task that group
members are responsible for and for when, where and how
2. Relationship style: leader has close, personal relationships with the members of the group, and there is
open communication and psychological and emotional support
Classic Styles: Hersey & Blanchard's - Correct Answer --Level of Maturity:
1. Degree of achievement motivation
2. Willingness to take responsibility
3. Amount of education and/or experience
Classic Styles: Hersey & Blanchard's-matching situation with the appropriate style - Correct Answer -1.
Telling style: high-task, low-relationship style and is effective when followers are at a very low level of
maturity
2. Selling style: high-task, high-relationship style and is effective when followers are on the low side of
maturity
3. Participating style: low-task, high-relationship style and is effective when followers are on the high side
of maturity
4. Delegating style: low-task, low-relationship style and is effective when followers are at very high level
of maturity
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,Flaws of Classical Styles - Correct Answer --Neglected to provide a coherent, explicit rationale for the
hypothesized relationships
-Only surface recognition to follower maturity
*Does point out the need for flexibility & take into consideration the different variables affecting leaders
-"managerial grid styles"
Jim Collin's Level 5 Leadership - Correct Answer --Having an ambition for the cause of the work, and at
the same time the willfulness to act on that ambition
House & Podsakoff: Behaviors & approaches of great leaders - Correct Answer -1. Vision
2. Passion & Self-Sacrifice
3. Confidence, determination, and persistence
4. Image building
5. Role modeling
6. External representation
7. Expectations of and confidence in followers
8. Selective motive arousal
9. Frame alignment
10. Inspirational communication
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, Positive, authentic leadership style - Correct Answer -Guidelines for leaders to be authentic & effective:
1. You must make sure that every follower fully understands the main message that guides the future
direction you have chosen to pursue
2. You must be consistent with your principles, beliefs, and values
3. You need to provide appropriate reinforcing recognition for the contributions made by each follower
4. Build ownership in the mission you are pursuing
5. Build PsyCap (confidence, hope, resiliency, optimism) in yourself & others
6. Explore the future with others and help each other bring it to the present.
Mintzberg's Managerial Roles - Correct Answer --Interpersonal role:
1. figurehead: symbol of organization
2. leader: uses influence to motivate/encourage
3. liaison: managers often spend more time interacting with others outside of unit
-Informational role:
1. Monitor: continually scanning environment and probing subordinates
2.Disseminator: distributes information to key internal people
3. Spokesperson: provides information to outsiders
-Decisional role:
1. Entrepreneur: initiates the development of a project and assembly necessary resources
2. Disturbance handler: reactive to problems and pressures of situation
3. Resource allocator: decides who get what in his/her department
4. Negotiator: spends time at all levels in the give/take of negotiating with subordinates
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QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE A+ SOLUTIONS 100% CORRECT!!!
Classic Styles: Hersey & Blanchard's life-cycle approach to leaders - Correct Answer -*Situational
approach:
1. Task style: leader organizes and defines roles for members of the work group; explains task that group
members are responsible for and for when, where and how
2. Relationship style: leader has close, personal relationships with the members of the group, and there is
open communication and psychological and emotional support
Classic Styles: Hersey & Blanchard's - Correct Answer --Level of Maturity:
1. Degree of achievement motivation
2. Willingness to take responsibility
3. Amount of education and/or experience
Classic Styles: Hersey & Blanchard's-matching situation with the appropriate style - Correct Answer -1.
Telling style: high-task, low-relationship style and is effective when followers are at a very low level of
maturity
2. Selling style: high-task, high-relationship style and is effective when followers are on the low side of
maturity
3. Participating style: low-task, high-relationship style and is effective when followers are on the high side
of maturity
4. Delegating style: low-task, low-relationship style and is effective when followers are at very high level
of maturity
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,Flaws of Classical Styles - Correct Answer --Neglected to provide a coherent, explicit rationale for the
hypothesized relationships
-Only surface recognition to follower maturity
*Does point out the need for flexibility & take into consideration the different variables affecting leaders
-"managerial grid styles"
Jim Collin's Level 5 Leadership - Correct Answer --Having an ambition for the cause of the work, and at
the same time the willfulness to act on that ambition
House & Podsakoff: Behaviors & approaches of great leaders - Correct Answer -1. Vision
2. Passion & Self-Sacrifice
3. Confidence, determination, and persistence
4. Image building
5. Role modeling
6. External representation
7. Expectations of and confidence in followers
8. Selective motive arousal
9. Frame alignment
10. Inspirational communication
2|Page
, Positive, authentic leadership style - Correct Answer -Guidelines for leaders to be authentic & effective:
1. You must make sure that every follower fully understands the main message that guides the future
direction you have chosen to pursue
2. You must be consistent with your principles, beliefs, and values
3. You need to provide appropriate reinforcing recognition for the contributions made by each follower
4. Build ownership in the mission you are pursuing
5. Build PsyCap (confidence, hope, resiliency, optimism) in yourself & others
6. Explore the future with others and help each other bring it to the present.
Mintzberg's Managerial Roles - Correct Answer --Interpersonal role:
1. figurehead: symbol of organization
2. leader: uses influence to motivate/encourage
3. liaison: managers often spend more time interacting with others outside of unit
-Informational role:
1. Monitor: continually scanning environment and probing subordinates
2.Disseminator: distributes information to key internal people
3. Spokesperson: provides information to outsiders
-Decisional role:
1. Entrepreneur: initiates the development of a project and assembly necessary resources
2. Disturbance handler: reactive to problems and pressures of situation
3. Resource allocator: decides who get what in his/her department
4. Negotiator: spends time at all levels in the give/take of negotiating with subordinates
3|Page
