MGT 6615 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2025
What 3 themes dominated leadership definition in the 1950s? - Answers Group Theory
Leadership as a relationship
Effectiveness
Leadership of the 1970s focused on what? - Answers Organizational Behavior
Authentic Leadership - Answers A style in which the leader is true to himself or herself while leading
Spiritual Leadership - Answers Leaders use values, a sense of "calling," and membership to motivate
followers
Servant Leadership - Answers Focuses on providing increased service to others—meeting the goals of
both followers and the organization—rather than to oneself.
Adaptive Leadership - Answers leaders encourage followers to adapt by confronting and solving
problems, challenges, and changes
Followership - Answers The role followers play in the leadership process
Discursive Leadership - Answers Leadership is created not so much through leader traits, skills, and
behaviors, but through communication practices that are negotiated between leader and follower
What 4 components are central to leadership? - Answers 1. Leadership is a process
2. Leadership involves influence
3. Leadership occurs in groups
4. Leadership involves common goals
Definition of Leadership - Answers A process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to
achieve a common goal
What is the context in which leadership takes place? - Answers In groups
Trait Leadership - Answers certain individuals have special innate characteristics or qualities that
differentiate them from non-leaders
Social Identity Theory - Answers The degree to which a person fits with the identity of the group as a
whole
Referent Power - Answers Power that comes from subordinates' and coworkers' respect, admiration,
and loyalty
Expert Power - Answers Based on followers' perceptions of the leader's competence
, Legitimate Power - Answers Power as a result of status or job authority
Reward Power - Answers power that comes from the ability to provide rewards or favors
Coercive Power - Answers Derived from having the capacity to penalize or punish others
Information Power - Answers Derived from possessing knowledge that others want or need
Two major kinds of power: - Answers Position & Personal
Position power includes which types of power? - Answers Legitimate
Reward
Coercive
Information
Personal power includes which types of power? - Answers Referent & Expert
Position Power - Answers influence derived from one's formal structural position in the organization
Personal Power - Answers The influence capacity a leader derives from being seen by followers as likable
and knowledgeable
Classification system of moral reasoning - Answers Stage 1—Obedience and Punishment
Stage 2—Individualism and Exchange
Stage 3—Interpersonal Accord and Conformity
Stage 4—Maintaining the Social Order
Stage 5—Social Contract and Individual Rights
Stage 6—Universal Principles
Who designed the classification of moral reasoning? - Answers Kohlberg
Preconventional Morality - Answers Judging the morality of an action by its direct consequences.
Reasoning based on self-interest, punishment, and reward
Conventional Morality - Answers Judging the morality of actions by comparing them to society's views
and expectation
Postconventional Morality - Answers individuals have developed their own personal set of ethics and
morals that guide their behavior. Reasoning is based on conscience and creating a just society
Ethical theories fall within which two domains? - Answers Conduct & Character
What 3 themes dominated leadership definition in the 1950s? - Answers Group Theory
Leadership as a relationship
Effectiveness
Leadership of the 1970s focused on what? - Answers Organizational Behavior
Authentic Leadership - Answers A style in which the leader is true to himself or herself while leading
Spiritual Leadership - Answers Leaders use values, a sense of "calling," and membership to motivate
followers
Servant Leadership - Answers Focuses on providing increased service to others—meeting the goals of
both followers and the organization—rather than to oneself.
Adaptive Leadership - Answers leaders encourage followers to adapt by confronting and solving
problems, challenges, and changes
Followership - Answers The role followers play in the leadership process
Discursive Leadership - Answers Leadership is created not so much through leader traits, skills, and
behaviors, but through communication practices that are negotiated between leader and follower
What 4 components are central to leadership? - Answers 1. Leadership is a process
2. Leadership involves influence
3. Leadership occurs in groups
4. Leadership involves common goals
Definition of Leadership - Answers A process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to
achieve a common goal
What is the context in which leadership takes place? - Answers In groups
Trait Leadership - Answers certain individuals have special innate characteristics or qualities that
differentiate them from non-leaders
Social Identity Theory - Answers The degree to which a person fits with the identity of the group as a
whole
Referent Power - Answers Power that comes from subordinates' and coworkers' respect, admiration,
and loyalty
Expert Power - Answers Based on followers' perceptions of the leader's competence
, Legitimate Power - Answers Power as a result of status or job authority
Reward Power - Answers power that comes from the ability to provide rewards or favors
Coercive Power - Answers Derived from having the capacity to penalize or punish others
Information Power - Answers Derived from possessing knowledge that others want or need
Two major kinds of power: - Answers Position & Personal
Position power includes which types of power? - Answers Legitimate
Reward
Coercive
Information
Personal power includes which types of power? - Answers Referent & Expert
Position Power - Answers influence derived from one's formal structural position in the organization
Personal Power - Answers The influence capacity a leader derives from being seen by followers as likable
and knowledgeable
Classification system of moral reasoning - Answers Stage 1—Obedience and Punishment
Stage 2—Individualism and Exchange
Stage 3—Interpersonal Accord and Conformity
Stage 4—Maintaining the Social Order
Stage 5—Social Contract and Individual Rights
Stage 6—Universal Principles
Who designed the classification of moral reasoning? - Answers Kohlberg
Preconventional Morality - Answers Judging the morality of an action by its direct consequences.
Reasoning based on self-interest, punishment, and reward
Conventional Morality - Answers Judging the morality of actions by comparing them to society's views
and expectation
Postconventional Morality - Answers individuals have developed their own personal set of ethics and
morals that guide their behavior. Reasoning is based on conscience and creating a just society
Ethical theories fall within which two domains? - Answers Conduct & Character
