MLSC Midterm Exam Questions & Answers 2024/2025
Transformational Leadership - ANSWERSleadership that, enabled by a leader's vision and inspiration, exerts significant influence
Transactional Leadership - ANSWERSleadership based on an exchange process in which followers are rewarded for good...
Transformational Leadership - ANSWERSleadership that, enabled by a leader's vision and inspiration,
exerts significant influence
Transactional Leadership - ANSWERSleadership based on an exchange process in which followers are
rewarded for good performance and punished for poor performance
Bass argument - ANSWERSBass argued that transformational and transactional leadership are separate
concepts, and further argued that the best leaders are both transformational and transactional. Second,
Bass elaborated considerably on the behaviors that manifest transformational and trans national
leadership.
Laissez-Faire Leadership - ANSWERSThe near-avoidance or absence of leadership and is, by definition,
the most inactive, as well as the most ineffective style of leadership. In the very extreme, nothing is
transacted between a leader and a follower with this style.
Management-by-Exception - ANSWERSThe management-by-exception form of corrective transaction
tends to be more ineffective than effective. The corrective transaction may be active or passive.
Passive - ANSWERSthe leader waits for deviations, mistakes, and errors to occur and then takes
corrective action.
Active - ANSWERSthe leader arranges to actively monitor deviations from standards, mistakes, and errors
in the follower's assignments and to take corrective action as necessary. Such leadership involves a
constant vigilance for possible mistakes.
Directing - ANSWERSThis leadership approach is most appropriate when the followers have low
willingness and low ability for the task at hand. When the followers cannot do the job and are unwilling
or afraid to try, then the leader must take a highly directive role. Directing requires those in charge to
define the roles and tasks of the followers, and supervise them closely
, Coaching - ANSWERSThis leadership approach is most appropriate when the followers have high
willingness but low ability for the task at hand. Like Directing, Coaching still requires leaders to define
roles and tasks clearly, but the leader seeks ideas and suggestions from the follower. Decisions remain
the leader's prerogative, but communication is much more two-way.
Delegating - ANSWERSThis leadership approach is most appropriate when the followers have high
willingness and high ability. Leaders should rely on delegating when the follower can do the job and is
motivated to do it. There is a high amount of trust that the follower will do well, and the follower
requires little supervision or support. Delegating still keeps the leader involved in the decisions and
problem-solving, but execution is mostly in the hands of the followers.
Mental adaptability - ANSWERSBeing mentally adaptable means adjusting one's thinking in new
situations to overcome obstacles or improve effectiveness. It includes things like handling emergency or
crisis situations, handling stress, learning new things, and creative problem solving.
Interpersonal adaptability - ANSWERSBeing inter personally adaptable means adjusting what one says
and does to make interactions with other people run more smoothly and effectively. This includes trying
to understand the needs and motives of other people - especially people in other cultures.
Physical adaptability - ANSWERSPhysical adaptability means adjusting to tough environmental states
such as heat, cold, etc., pushing oneself physically to complete strenuous or demanding tasks, and
adjusting weight/muscular strength or becoming proficient in performing physical tasks as necessary for
the job.
Ambiguity - ANSWERS- Leaders must be self ‐aware and adaptive, comfortable with ambiguity, able to
anticipate possible second‐ and third‐order effects, and be multi functional to exploit all the tools of the
modern battlefield. Officers in the operational environment deal with the idea of asymmetrical warfare.
While planning is critical to a mission, officers will not have detailed plans to guide them.
Complexity - ANSWERSIn today's environment officers do not just fight. One minute you may be leading
a raid and as soon as that is complete you might be working on re ‐building the water supply for a school
or meeting with the media. Adaptive leaders will need to switch gears quickly. They need to be able to
deal with their mission as well as many different military and civilian organizations of the operational
environment.
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