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Dilemmas of Leadership: Test your knowledge of leadership

14 Questions - Developed by: Tudor Rickards - Updated on: 2014-09-01 - Developed on: 2014-08-23 - 2,337 taken

This quiz is based on the contents of the introductory section of the Dilemmas of Leadership textbook. You can take it to test awareness of your leader knowledge before or after studying the introduction.

1

The map for the INTRODUCTORY OVERVIEW is described as ..?

A template for contents of the chapters of Dilemmas of Leadership
A summary of leadership eras to modern times
A summary of leadership traits

2

The introduction describes the concept of a POU as ..?

A preconscious ontological uneasiness
A platform of understanding
A privately organized universe

3

Examination of dilemmas ..?

Should include imaginative assumptions
Should not include imaginative assumptions
Should reduce leadership problems to an 'either or' assessment

4

A working definition ..?

Is a poor substitute for well-established definitions
Is a poor substitute for a theoretical definition
Permits sharing of knowledge through discussion and conversation

5

The recommended system for understanding leadership is ..?

Based on assessing the risk to reward ratio in resolving dilemma
Based on the theory of paradigms of Thomas Kuhn
Based on studying conceptual maps

6

The Dominant Rational Model (DRM) ..?

Helps decide whether risk or reward is rationality dominant in any decision making process
Has shown charismatic leadership to be an obsolete leadership form
Is one way of justifying the principles of project management

7

Which is the false statement ..?

Leadership skills can be developed through learning from practice
True leaders are identified through their genetic traits
The born or made dilemma is a version of the nature and nurture debate

8

Which is the false statement ..?

Transformational leadership is a tamed form of charismatic leadership
Trust in a leader is based on rational expectations theory
Symbolic leadership may be explained in social constructional terms

9

Strategic leadership ..?

Is not needed in non-commercial organizations
Has similarities to project management, in its emphasis on functional structuring of its activities
Is no longer central to the business school curriculum

10

In studying power relationships, which of the following is false ..?

Reality is assumed by some researchers to be socially-constructed.
The exercise of power is the legitimate right of the leader
Discrimination may be studied as emerging from abuse of power-relationships

11

Ethical dilemmas include ..?

The conflict between ideas and actions
The conflict between form and function
The conflict between pragmatism and moral belief

12

Creativity is said to be a leaders secret weapon because ..?

It has to be conducted in a concealed manner
Successful leaders have been too modest about their achievements
Not many leaders realise its importance

13

Leadership in sport ..?

Involves specific versions of more general dilemmas facing leaders everywhere
Has been studied mostly in pharmaceutical laboratories
Has not been studied as a serious leadership subject

14

21st Century leadership ideas ..?

Have replaced old ideas with modern ones
Are more grounded in rational thinking than the dominant 20th Century ones were
Place more emphasis on mutuality of purpose

Comments (2)

Olivia (22171)

906 days ago

I will do better if I read the chapter and try again. I got 4 correct.

Olivia (22171)

944 days ago

I got 3 right. I will do better if I read the chapter and try again.

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