FINAL EXAM 2024 SPRING SEMESTER ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (COMPLETE AND VERIFIED EXAM A+ GRADE)

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY,LONG BEACH FINAL EXAM 2024 SPRING SEMESTER ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (COMPLETE AND VERIFIED EXAM A+ GRADE) 1. According to the lecture, which of the following is the LEAST important situational factor in Fiedler's Contingency Theory a. LPC b. Task structure c. Position power d. Leader member group relations e. None of the above 2. According to your textbook, the main drawback of both the _ and the approach to leadership is that they ignore the rule of the situation in which leadership takes place a. Traits and personality, contingency b. Contingency , behavior c. Great man theory , contingency d. behavioral , trait and personality e. All of the above 3. According to the ohio state studies the two key dimensions of leader behaviors are a. Participative, supportive b. Consultative, delegated c. in-group , out- group d. Transactional, transformational e. None of the above 4. Which of the following scales is completed by supervisors in the ohio state studies? a. Leader behavior description questionnaire (LBDQ) b. Least prefered coworker scale(LPC) c. Besas transformational & transactional leadership scale (BTTS) d. Leadership and management exam (LAME) e. Leadership opinion questionnaire (LOQ) 5. According to the leader-member exchange theory. Which if the following emphysisized a less likely for the satisfied and less likely to perform at high levels ? a. Marco - who is in the out-group b. Jerry - who has a low LPC leader ;Not in the LMET (leader member) c. Kai - who gas a transformational leader ;not in LMET d. Bort - who is in the in-group ; in group will perform at high levels e. All of the above 6. Which of the following statements is True ? a. Pg 339 review men do not engage in more intiating structures b. Women do not engage in consideration structures c. Both of the above d. None of the above 7. Which of the following leadership theories discusses autocratic, consultative, group, and delegated leadership styles? a. The Path-Goal theory b. Fiedler's Contingency theory c. The ohio state studies d. Leader-member exchange e. None of the above 8. _ _-oriented leaders, according to Fiedler, are called LPC leaders a. Relationship, high b. Relationship, low c. Task, high d. Task, moderate e. All of the above 9. Young-yan wants to follow the guidelines of Path-Goal theory. In order to do this she should a. Figure out what outcomes her employees are trying to get at work b. Reward her employees for achieving their goals by giving them desired outcomes c. Make sure her employees believe they can attain their goals and work at a high level d. All of the above 10. Which theory of leadership most clearly uses expectancy theory as its foundation, and suggests that a primary job of leaders is to increase their subordinates “expectancy” (as in expectancy theory)? a. Path-Goal theory b. Fiedler's Contingency theory c. Vrooms and Yetton model d. Cognitive resource theory e. Leader-member exchange theory 11. Jon has just been promoted to assistant manager. He has been transferred to a department in which managers have weak position power and have not gotten along well with employees. In addition, the employees in the department perform very unstructured tasks. According to Fiedler's Contingency theory, it would be best if job were a(n)_ _ leader a. High LPC b. Transformational c. Low LPC d. Achievement-oriented e. All of the above 12. A transactional leaders power most likely stem from a(n) source. A transformational leaders power, on the other hand, most likely stems from a(n) _ _ source a. Personal, organizational b. Charismatic, LPC c. Charismatic, PPC d. Organizational, personal e. Organizational, organizational 13. Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding Fiedler's Contingency theory ? a. It is part of the second oldest approach to studying leadership X b. It focuses on leadership substitutes and leadership neutralizers X c. It uses the LBDQ to measure leadership style X d. It identifies four types of behaviors that leaders can engage in to motivate subordinates e. None of the above 14. Paco wants a job where he can assemble bicycles from start to finish. According to Hackman & oldham's job characteristics model, this best describes a. Task significance b. Task identity c. feed back d. Job specialization e. Contextual factors 15. Min-yi used to just work on christmas cards at hallmarkⓇ. Now, she also works on valentines day gift, birthday ribbons, and humorous mugs. This change best characterizes job a. Engineering b. Rotation c. Enrichment d. Enlargement e. All of the above 16. Kathleen wants to know if her employees’ job has the potential for enrichment. Which of the following should she use to determine if a job design problem exist? a. Horizontal loading X b. The JDS c. Vertical loading d. Growth-needs strength X e. The LBDQ X 17. Paco does not really care about learning new skills and professional growth. When given the chance to participate in organizational training, he never attends. All that paco wants from his job is his paycheck. Which of the following is TRUE about paco? He… a. Has low GNS b. Is dissatisfied with contextual factors c. Has a high MPS d. Suffers from vertical Loading syndrome (VLS) e. All of the above 18. Hygiene factors, in herzberg's motivator-hygiene model, are most similar to _ in Hackman & Oldham's Job Characteristics model. a. MPS factors O b. Contextual factors ( the work context ) ,X All X are part of individual differences c. Knowledge and skills ,X d. GNS ,X e. None of the above 19. According to lecture, a Sociotechnical systems theory approach to job design tries to find the right match between the technical requirements to do the job and employees social needs. This statement is a. True b. False 20. Marias job has been redesigned. Now, her team performs many of the roles and responsibilities that were formerly performed by management (e.g., planning, controlling, evaluating, scheduling) this best describes a. Vertical loading b. Horizontal loading c. Job diagnosis d. Sociotechnical systems e. Horizontal diagnosis 21.