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32.Which of the following true regarding the interaction of : 1303032
Multiple Choice
32.Which of the following is true regarding the interaction of leadership and culture?
a.Strong leaders can maintain their authority even without their followers’ acceptance of socially constructed assumption, values, and behaviors.
b.A successful leader achieves organizational efficiency and effectiveness by interpreting, translating, and modifying the culture’s value system. (page 212, easy)
c.Leaders are affected by national and organizational cultures, and are basically powerless to affect those cultures.
d.Leaders affect national and organizational cultures, and are virtually unaffected by those cultures.
33.In which society is there a large number and variety of nuanced words for leadership roles and responsibilities, reflecting the importance placed on them?
a.Germany
b.Japan
c.The US (page 212, easy)
d.Korea
34._____ focuses on creativity, vision, and long-term organizational development, whereas _____ deals with routine operations.
a.Leadership; followership
b.Leadership; management (page 213, easy)
c.Management; leadership
d.Management; followership
35.The existence of a “glass ceiling” for women in the US and for non-Japanese employees of Japanese companies illustrates that _____.
a.where laws are clear and well-enforced, cultures change to conform
b.actual organizational practices are not always consistent with ideals expressed in their own culture (page 213, easy)
c.laws are useless when confronting evil intentions of top management
d.women, and some men really do not desire promotions into leadership positions
36.In a country such as Spain, where political rule has long been autocratic and experience with democracy has been short, worker expectations are _____.
a.that business organizations must be very participative to compensate for society’s shortcomings
b.compatible with low-participation philosophies, such as scientific management (page 213, moderate)
c.indistinguishable from expectations of workers in most other countries
d.government should control the factors of production and make most major decisions for business organizations
37.In an organizational culture that prefers autocratic, centralized decision-making, a leader with a participative style _____.
a.cannot succeed
b.will always succeed
c.will have difficulty (page 214, easy)
d.will have easy success
38.The organizational changes described in Daimler-Benz were _____.
a.evolutionary
b.inevitable
c.proactive
d.all of the above
e.none of the above (page 214, difficult)
39.Leadership theories developed in the US _____.
a.are dwarfed in number by those developed in India and China
b.typically focus on the need to understand the level of participation required to motivate followers (page 215, moderate)
c.have been strongly confirmed by studies in the US, but not abroad
d.are notably less culture bound than are most other areas of organizational behavior that originated in the US
40.The cultural concept most closely related to McGregor’s Theory X/Theory Y is _____.
a.Hofstede’s Power Distance Index
b.Hofstede’s Individualism-Collectivism
c.Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck’s Basic Human Nature (page 216, moderate)
d.Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck’s Relationships Among People
41._____ reflects the leader’s difficulty in acting in a consistent, coherent way in response to diverse and often conflicting values in heterogeneous societies.
a.Theory X
b.Theory Y
c.Theory Z
d.Ambivalent leadership (page 216, easy)
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