WGU C484 Organizational Behavior
and Leadership VERSIONS 2025
NEWEST EXAM COMPLETE QUESTIONS
WITH DETAILED VERIFIED ANSWERS
(100% CORRECT ANSWERS) ||ALREADY
GRADED A+
1. vision - ANSWER ✓ A long-term strategy for attaining a goal or goals
2. vision statement - ANSWER ✓ A formal articulation of an organization's
vision or mission
3. leader-participation model - ANSWER ✓ A leadership theory that provides
a set of rules to determine the form and amount of participative decision
making in different situations
4. Leader-member exchange (LMX) theory - ANSWER ✓ A theory that
supports leaders' creation of in-groups and out-groups; subordinates with in-
group status will have higher performance ratings, less turnover, and greater
job satisfaction
5. charismatic leadership theory - ANSWER ✓ A leadership theory that states
that followers make attributions of heroic or extraordinary leadership
abilities when they observe certain behaviors
6. transactional leaders - ANSWER ✓ Leaders who guide or motivate their
followers in the direction of established goals by clarifying role and task
requirements
7. transformational leaders - ANSWER ✓ Leaders who inspire followers to
transcend their own self-interests and who are capable of having a profound
and extraordinary effect on followers
,8. authentic leaders - ANSWER ✓ Leaders who know who they are, know
what they believe in and value, and act on those values and beliefs openly
and candidly. Their followers would consider them to be ethical people
9. socialized charismatic leadership - ANSWER ✓ A leadership concept that
states that leaders convey values that are other centered versus self centered
and who role-model ethical conduct
10.servant leadership - ANSWER ✓ A leadership style marked by going
beyond the leader's own self-interest and instead focusing on opportunities
to help followers grow and develop
11.trust - ANSWER ✓ A positive expectation that another will not act
opportunistically
12.integrity, benevolence, ability - ANSWER ✓ The three components that lead
a follower to deem a leader is trustworthy
13.mentor - ANSWER ✓ A senior employee who sponsors and supports a less-
experienced employee, called a protégé
14.attribution theory of leadership - ANSWER ✓ A leadership theory that says
that leadership is merely an attribution that people make about other
individuals
15.substitutes - ANSWER ✓ Attributes, such as experience and training, that
can replace the need for a leader's support or ability to create structure
16.neutralizers - ANSWER ✓ Attributes that make it impossible for leader
behavior to make any difference to follower outcomes
17.identification-based trust - ANSWER ✓ Trust based on a mutual
understanding of each other's intentions and appreciation of each other's
wants and desires
18.manager - ANSWER ✓ An individual who achieves goals through other
people
, 19.organization - ANSWER ✓ A consciously coordinated social unit,
composed of two or more people, that functions on a relatively continuous
basis to achieve a common goal or set of goals
20.planning - ANSWER ✓ A process that includes defining goals, establishing
strategy, and developing plans to coordinate activities
21.organizing - ANSWER ✓ Determining what tasks are to be done, who is to
do them, how the tasks are to be grouped, who reports to whom, and where
decisions are to be made
22.leading - ANSWER ✓ A function that includes motivating employees,
directing others, selecting the most effective communication channels, and
resolving conflicts
23.controlling - ANSWER ✓ Monitoring activities to ensure they are being
accomplished as planned and correcting any significant deviations
24.technical skills - ANSWER ✓ The ability to apply specialized knowledge or
expertise
25.human skills - ANSWER ✓ The ability to work with, understand, and
motivate other people, both individually and in groups
26.conceptual skills - ANSWER ✓ The mental ability to analyze and diagnose
complex situations
27.organizational behavior (OB) - ANSWER ✓ A field of study that
investigates the impact that individuals, groups, and structure have on
behavior within organizations, for the purpose of applying such knowledge
toward improving an organization's effectiveness
28.systematic study - ANSWER ✓ Looking at relationships, attempting to
attribute causes and effects, and drawing conclusions based on scientific
evidence
29.evidence-based management - ANSWER ✓ The basing of managerial
decisions on the best available scientific evidence
and Leadership VERSIONS 2025
NEWEST EXAM COMPLETE QUESTIONS
WITH DETAILED VERIFIED ANSWERS
(100% CORRECT ANSWERS) ||ALREADY
GRADED A+
1. vision - ANSWER ✓ A long-term strategy for attaining a goal or goals
2. vision statement - ANSWER ✓ A formal articulation of an organization's
vision or mission
3. leader-participation model - ANSWER ✓ A leadership theory that provides
a set of rules to determine the form and amount of participative decision
making in different situations
4. Leader-member exchange (LMX) theory - ANSWER ✓ A theory that
supports leaders' creation of in-groups and out-groups; subordinates with in-
group status will have higher performance ratings, less turnover, and greater
job satisfaction
5. charismatic leadership theory - ANSWER ✓ A leadership theory that states
that followers make attributions of heroic or extraordinary leadership
abilities when they observe certain behaviors
6. transactional leaders - ANSWER ✓ Leaders who guide or motivate their
followers in the direction of established goals by clarifying role and task
requirements
7. transformational leaders - ANSWER ✓ Leaders who inspire followers to
transcend their own self-interests and who are capable of having a profound
and extraordinary effect on followers
,8. authentic leaders - ANSWER ✓ Leaders who know who they are, know
what they believe in and value, and act on those values and beliefs openly
and candidly. Their followers would consider them to be ethical people
9. socialized charismatic leadership - ANSWER ✓ A leadership concept that
states that leaders convey values that are other centered versus self centered
and who role-model ethical conduct
10.servant leadership - ANSWER ✓ A leadership style marked by going
beyond the leader's own self-interest and instead focusing on opportunities
to help followers grow and develop
11.trust - ANSWER ✓ A positive expectation that another will not act
opportunistically
12.integrity, benevolence, ability - ANSWER ✓ The three components that lead
a follower to deem a leader is trustworthy
13.mentor - ANSWER ✓ A senior employee who sponsors and supports a less-
experienced employee, called a protégé
14.attribution theory of leadership - ANSWER ✓ A leadership theory that says
that leadership is merely an attribution that people make about other
individuals
15.substitutes - ANSWER ✓ Attributes, such as experience and training, that
can replace the need for a leader's support or ability to create structure
16.neutralizers - ANSWER ✓ Attributes that make it impossible for leader
behavior to make any difference to follower outcomes
17.identification-based trust - ANSWER ✓ Trust based on a mutual
understanding of each other's intentions and appreciation of each other's
wants and desires
18.manager - ANSWER ✓ An individual who achieves goals through other
people
, 19.organization - ANSWER ✓ A consciously coordinated social unit,
composed of two or more people, that functions on a relatively continuous
basis to achieve a common goal or set of goals
20.planning - ANSWER ✓ A process that includes defining goals, establishing
strategy, and developing plans to coordinate activities
21.organizing - ANSWER ✓ Determining what tasks are to be done, who is to
do them, how the tasks are to be grouped, who reports to whom, and where
decisions are to be made
22.leading - ANSWER ✓ A function that includes motivating employees,
directing others, selecting the most effective communication channels, and
resolving conflicts
23.controlling - ANSWER ✓ Monitoring activities to ensure they are being
accomplished as planned and correcting any significant deviations
24.technical skills - ANSWER ✓ The ability to apply specialized knowledge or
expertise
25.human skills - ANSWER ✓ The ability to work with, understand, and
motivate other people, both individually and in groups
26.conceptual skills - ANSWER ✓ The mental ability to analyze and diagnose
complex situations
27.organizational behavior (OB) - ANSWER ✓ A field of study that
investigates the impact that individuals, groups, and structure have on
behavior within organizations, for the purpose of applying such knowledge
toward improving an organization's effectiveness
28.systematic study - ANSWER ✓ Looking at relationships, attempting to
attribute causes and effects, and drawing conclusions based on scientific
evidence
29.evidence-based management - ANSWER ✓ The basing of managerial
decisions on the best available scientific evidence
