Exam 15: Leadership and Management Behavior in Multinational Companies

A) Directive style
B) Supportive style
C) Participative style
D) Achievement-oriented style

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A) Fiedler proposed that managers tend to be either task or person-centered leaders.
B) The success of leadership styles depends on three characteristics of the work situation.
C) Effective leadership occurs when the leadership style matches the situation.
D) Task-centered leadership works best in mixed conditions.

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A) Internal attribution.
B) External attribution.
C) Fundamental attribution error.
D) Attribution effect.

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A) Is a popular US contingency theory.
B) Identifies four types of leadership styles that a manager might choose depending on the situation.
C) Key contingency or situational factors that determine the choice of the best leadership styles are: the nature of the subordinates and the characteristics of the subordinates' tasks.
D) All of the above

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A) Autonomous leaders are independent, individualistic and unique.
B) Autonomous leaders act in self-interested manner.
C) Germanic and Eastern European countries have the highest scores on autonomous leadership.
D) Autonomous leadership is seen as very effective in most cultures.

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A) Articulates a vision.
B) Breaks from the status quo.
C) Uses rewards or punishments to influence subordinates.
D) Provides goals and a plan.

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A) The skills and abilities to interact with and manage people from the diverse cultural backgrounds that populate their multinational companies.
B) Sufficiently flexible to operate comfortably in pluralistic cultural environments.
C) Knows at least one foreign language and understands the complexities of interaction with people from other cultures.
D) All of the above

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A) In counties with high power distance values, including many of the Latin and Asian countries, subordinates expect autocratic leadership.
B) In low power distance countries, such as Sweden and Norway, subordinates expect the leader to be more like them.
C) Weak masculinity norms often lead to the acceptance of more authoritarian leadership.
D) Strong uncertainty avoidance norms may cause subordinates to expect the leader to provide more detail in directions.

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A) Means that managers use rewards or punishments to influence their subordinates.
B) Is similar to transactional leadership.
C) Succeeds because subordinates respond to the leader with high levels of performance, personal devotion, and excitement.
D) Is one leadership style of Fieldler's leadership theory.

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A) Leadership is influencing group members to achieve organizational goals.
B) Excellent leaders motivate their employees to achieve more than minimal organizational requirements.
C) Companies can achieve success with or without good leaders.
D) Leading in a multinational company is an even greater challenge than in a domestic one.

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A) Assumes that successful leaders need not modify their behaviors or develop particular leadership traits to succeed in different nations.
B) Includes two contingencies: the characteristics of subordinates and the nature of the work setting.
C) Includes factors related to the national culture and social institutions.
D) Only B and C are correct

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A) Democratic leaders.
B) Autocratic leaders.
C) Participative leaders.
D) Consultative leaders.

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A) Example behaviors include being friendly and humble.
B) Example behaviors include using logical arguments.
C) Example behaviors include using threats and punishments.
D) Example behaviors include being forceful and directive.

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A) In Western nations, people tend to make external attributions.
B) In Eastern nations, people tend to make internal attributions.
C) In Western nations, people tend to make internal attributions.
D) In Eastern nations, people tend to make external attributions.

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