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1. Women leaders’ interactive leadership style developed
(a) Due to their socialization experiences and career paths
(b) Because of exchanges with subordinates for services rendered
(c) By influencing others primarily through their organizational position and authority
(d) Because of their organizational position
2. Most male CEOs attribute the paucity of women in corporate leadership roles to which of the following?
(a) Exclusion from informal networks
(b) Women not in pipeline long enough
(c) Male stereotyping and preconceptions
(d) Inadequacies in the quality of experience for the top spots
3. According to female executives, what is the major factor that prevents senior female executives from advancing to corporate leadership?
(a) Lack of significant general management
(b) Male stereotyping and preconceptions
(c) Inhospitable corporate culture
(d) Exclusion from informal networks
4. According to female executives. which of the following factors least prevents women from advancing to corporate leadership?
(a) Women not being in the pipeline long enough
(b) Exclusion from informal networks
(c) Inhospitable corporate culture
(d) Lack of significant line experience
5. What term did Rosener coin to describe how some women leaders encouraged participation and shared power and information, but went far beyond what is commonly thought of as participative management?
(a) Autocratic leadership
(b) Laissez faire leadership
(c) Interactive leadership
(d) Transactional leadership
6. According to a survey research by Judith Rosener, in terms of their leadership experiences,
(a) Women tended to describe themselves in transactional terms
(b) Men tended to describe themselves in somewhat transformational terms
(c) Men influenced others primarily in terms of personal characteristics
(d) Women helped subordinates develop commitment for broader goals than their own self-interest
7. Choose the correct answer: Ideal leaders according to a survey were commonly characterized as all of the following except
(a) Honest
(b) Competent
(c) Forward-looking
(d) Cooperative.
8. Choose the correct answer: What best describes the leader-follower relationship?
(a) The relationship is a one-way street
(b) Leadership and followership are the same thing
(c) Leadership and followership merge and are linked concepts
(d) It is based on the idea of ‘one-man leadership’