MGT 6615 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED ANSWERS, LATEST 2025
UPDATE
◉Ways to conceptualize leadership . Ans: 1) Focus of group processes
2) Personality perspective
3) An act/behavior
4) Power relationship
5) Transformational process
6) Skills perspective
◉Traits in leadership . Ans: 1) Height
2) Intelligence
3) Extraversion
4) Fluency
5) Others...
◉Trait vs process leadership . Ans: Process is interaction. Trait is innate.
◉Assigned vs emergent leadership . Ans: A: formal position
,E: way other group members respond to them. Communication includes
1) Being verbally involved
2) Being informed
3) Seeking others' opinions
4) Initiating new ideas
5) Being firm but not rigid
◉6 Bases of Power . Ans: 1) Personal
a. Referent: follower's ID and liking for the leader
b. Expert: perceptions of leaders' competence
2) Position
a. Legitimate: status or formal job authority
b. Reward: can reward
c. Coercive: can punish
d. Information: has knowledge
◉MGT functions . Ans: Planning/budgeting
Organizing/Staffing
Controlling/problem solving
Overriding function is to provide order and consistency to orgs. Seeks
order and stability
,◉Leadership functions . Ans: Establishing direction
Aligning people
Motivating/inspiring
Function: Produce change and movement. Seeks adaptive and
constructive change
◉Shift in leadership power . Ans: 1) Power no longer the domain of
leaders
2) Followers demand more from leaders
3) Access to technology has empowered followers
4) Leaders more transparent
5) Decline in respect for leaders
6) Leadership as social contract between leaders and followers
◉Managers . Ans: Unidirectional authority
Reactive
Prefer to work with people solving
Low emotional involvement
◉Leaders . Ans: Multidirectional influence
Emotionally active
Shape ideas over responding to them
, Act to expand available options
Change the way people think about what is possible
◉Power . Ans: The capacity or potential to influence. Ability to affect
others' beliefs, attitudes, and actions.
◉Leadership approaches throughout the years . Ans: 1900-1929:
control/centralization of power
1930: trait
1940: group
1950: group theory, shared goals, effectiveness
1960: leadership as behavior
1970: org behavior
1980: explosion of research (leader's will, influence, traits,
transformation)
21st century: (authentic, spiritual, servant, adaptive, followership,
discursive)
◉Ethics . Ans: Greek for customs, conduct, character
Concerned with values/morals an ind or society ascribes as desirable
Focuses on virtuousness of ind and motives
VERIFIED ANSWERS, LATEST 2025
UPDATE
◉Ways to conceptualize leadership . Ans: 1) Focus of group processes
2) Personality perspective
3) An act/behavior
4) Power relationship
5) Transformational process
6) Skills perspective
◉Traits in leadership . Ans: 1) Height
2) Intelligence
3) Extraversion
4) Fluency
5) Others...
◉Trait vs process leadership . Ans: Process is interaction. Trait is innate.
◉Assigned vs emergent leadership . Ans: A: formal position
,E: way other group members respond to them. Communication includes
1) Being verbally involved
2) Being informed
3) Seeking others' opinions
4) Initiating new ideas
5) Being firm but not rigid
◉6 Bases of Power . Ans: 1) Personal
a. Referent: follower's ID and liking for the leader
b. Expert: perceptions of leaders' competence
2) Position
a. Legitimate: status or formal job authority
b. Reward: can reward
c. Coercive: can punish
d. Information: has knowledge
◉MGT functions . Ans: Planning/budgeting
Organizing/Staffing
Controlling/problem solving
Overriding function is to provide order and consistency to orgs. Seeks
order and stability
,◉Leadership functions . Ans: Establishing direction
Aligning people
Motivating/inspiring
Function: Produce change and movement. Seeks adaptive and
constructive change
◉Shift in leadership power . Ans: 1) Power no longer the domain of
leaders
2) Followers demand more from leaders
3) Access to technology has empowered followers
4) Leaders more transparent
5) Decline in respect for leaders
6) Leadership as social contract between leaders and followers
◉Managers . Ans: Unidirectional authority
Reactive
Prefer to work with people solving
Low emotional involvement
◉Leaders . Ans: Multidirectional influence
Emotionally active
Shape ideas over responding to them
, Act to expand available options
Change the way people think about what is possible
◉Power . Ans: The capacity or potential to influence. Ability to affect
others' beliefs, attitudes, and actions.
◉Leadership approaches throughout the years . Ans: 1900-1929:
control/centralization of power
1930: trait
1940: group
1950: group theory, shared goals, effectiveness
1960: leadership as behavior
1970: org behavior
1980: explosion of research (leader's will, influence, traits,
transformation)
21st century: (authentic, spiritual, servant, adaptive, followership,
discursive)
◉Ethics . Ans: Greek for customs, conduct, character
Concerned with values/morals an ind or society ascribes as desirable
Focuses on virtuousness of ind and motives
