1. Participative leadership is most likely to be effective in a culture with:
a. high collectivism
b. low power distance
c. high gender egalitarianism
d. low performance orientation
2. Research at CCL indicates that the least amount of learning occurred for managers who had:
a. assignments for which they were well prepared
b. challenges they had to face alone
c. opportunities to make mistakes
d. diverse experiences with different types of challenges
3. Which statement about leadership development in organizations is least likely to be accurate:
a. leadership development should be consistent with organization strategy
b. developmental activities should be coordinated with formal training
c. self development activities should be maximized to reduce costs
d. leadership development should be integrated with succession planning
4. Which of the following is not characteristic of most leadership research?
a. an assumption of strong effects by heroic individual leaders
b. a focus on dyadic processes rather than collective processes
c. an emphasis on explanatory processes and mediating variables
d. an assumption of unidirectional causality from leader to followers
5. Which of the following is not a common feature of leadership research?
a. surveys conducted in real organizations
b. studies conducted to test leadership theories
c. studies that involve field experiments
d. studies with retrospective ratings of leader behaviour