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Test Bank Chapter 14: Team Leadership: Ultiple Hoice
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Chapter 14: Team Leadership
MULTIPLE CHOICE
3. Organizational teams have been the focus of many studies in order to ______.
A. determine the skill level of the team members
B. find ways to help less capable members still succeed
C. support organizational distribution of workload
D. find strategies for maintaining a competitive advantage
Ans: D
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Description
Difficulty Level: Easy
AACSB Standard: Contexts of organizations
14. When the leader sees and interprets the team’s experiences in an organizational
context it is called ______.
A. requisite variety
B. leader complexity
C. behavioral flexibility
D. mental model
Ans: D
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Team Leadership Model
Difficulty Level: Easy
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
15. Which of the following is the best analogy to describe the team leadership
approach? An effective team leader is like ______.
A. a lead singer who can use charisma to attract a lot of attention for the band
B. a politician who can inspire others toward an authentic vision
C. an engineer who can set aside emotions to solve technical problems
D. a doctor who can diagnose accurately and prescribe the right treatment
Ans: D
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Team Leadership Model
Difficulty Level: Moderate
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
16. Hill’s model suggests that the leader must match appropriate behaviors with a team
member’s problem. This is similar to the basic concepts in which theory?
A. leader–member exchange
B. situational approach
C. authentic leadership
D. servant leadership
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Northouse, Leadership 8e
17. What are the two critical functions of team effectiveness in Hill’s model?
A. development and analysis
B. performance and leader outcomes
C. leadership outcomes and analysis
D. performance and development
Ans: D
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Team Effectiveness
Difficulty Level: Easy
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
18. In Hill’s Team Leadership Model, the cohesiveness of the team and the ability of
team members to satisfy their own needs while working effectively with other team
members defines
A. development
B. commitment
C. recognition
D. results-driven leadership
Ans: A
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Team Effectiveness
Difficulty Level: Easy
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
19. Which of the following is not one of Hackman’s six enabling conditions of effective
team functioning?
A. real team
B. clear conduct norms
C. compelling purpose
D. strict hierarchy
Ans: D
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Team Effectiveness
Difficulty Level: Easy
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
20. Which of Larson and LaFasto’s characteristics of team excellence is associated with
Hackman’s “clear norms of conduct”?
A. compelling purpose
B. unified commitment
C. standards of excellence
D. competent team members
Northouse, Leadership 8e
21. Which of Larson and LaFasto’s characteristics of team excellence is associated with
Hackman’s “team focused coaching”?
A. compelling purpose
B. principled leadership
C. standards of excellence
D. competent team members
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Team Effectiveness
Difficulty Level: Easy
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
22. Which of Larson and LaFasto’s characteristics of team excellence is associated with
Hackman’s “real team”?
A. results-driven structure
B. unified commitment
C. standards of excellence
D. supportive organizational structure
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Team Effectiveness
Difficulty Level: Easy
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
23. Our team leader outlined the objectives of our new project and identified our
expected outcomes. Our leader was using which characteristic of team excellence?
A. clear, elevating goal
B. clear norms of conduct
C. collaborative climate
D. principled leadership
Ans: A
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Team Effectiveness
Difficulty Level: Easy
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
24. Our emergency room medical team has clear tasks for each member, a code of
conduct we implement each day, and a group that functions well together. Our team is
displaying which characteristic of team excellence?
A. clear, elevating goal
Northouse, Leadership 8e
25. Our team has just the right mix of people with complementary skills and strengths.
Our team is displaying which characteristic of team excellence?
A. standards of excellence
B. clear norms of conduct
C. competent team members
D. principled leadership
Ans: C
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Team Effectiveness
Difficulty Level: Easy
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
26. Our food product development team has an excellent sense of team unity and
employs a spirit of camaraderie in daily operations together. Which characteristic of
team excellence is our team displaying?
A. results-driven structure
B. clear norms of conduct
C. coaching atmosphere
D. unified commitment
Ans: D
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Team Effectiveness
Difficulty Level: Easy
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
27. I enjoy working with this team because we all trust each other and respect what
each person brings to the team. Which characteristic of team excellence am I
displaying?
A. collaborative climate
B. clear norms of conduct
C. coaching atmosphere
D. unified commitment
Ans: A
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Team Effectiveness
Difficulty Level: Easy
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
Northouse, Leadership 8e
28. We all feel committed to do our best because as a team we created our code of
conduct and performance criteria together. Which characteristic of team excellence is
our team displaying?
A. results-driven structure
B. standards of excellence
C. real team
D. unified commitment
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Team Effectiveness
Difficulty Level: Easy
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
29. Our organization provides us with the resources we need to complete our team
projects and has a generous bonus system if we exceed standards and meet deadlines.
Which characteristic of team excellence is our organization displaying?
A. results-driven structure
B. internal support and recognition
C. external support and recognition
D. collaborative climate
Ans: C
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Team Effectiveness
Difficulty Level: Easy
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
30. I am a leader who is focused on influencing the team in positive ways to be effective
including my use of motivation and coordination. Which characteristic of team
excellence am I displaying?
A. results-driven structure
B. compelling purpose
C. external support and recognition
D. principled leadership
Ans: D
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Team Effectiveness
Difficulty Level: Easy
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
33. The team I am leading is in conflict with constant infighting and little focus on the
project’s goals. I should take ______.
A. external task action
B. internal task action
C. internal relational action
D. External environmental action
Ans: C
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Leadership Decisions
Difficulty Level: Easy
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
34. My team gets along well with one another and has worked together for a long time
and consistently exceeded its goals despite recent changes in our company. Recently,
the organization has made some reporting structure changes and has had to reduce the
workforce due to budgetary constraints on the company. Applying McGrath’s critical
leadership functions, I need to ______.
A. do internal monitoring
B. take internal executive action
C. do external monitoring
D. take external executive action
Ans: C
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Leadership Decisions
Difficulty Level: Moderate
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
36. What needs to happen for the team to effectively perform and to have solid
development?
A. leadership decisions must monitor or take action
B. leadership decisions must be centered on internal action only
C. leadership decisions must be centered on external action only
D. leadership decisions must monitor internal environmental actions
Ans: A
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Leadership Actions
Difficulty Level: Easy
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
37. When a leader uses skills to improve the task performance effectiveness of the
team he or she is using ______.
A. environmental leadership monitoring processes
B. external leadership action processes
C. internal relational leadership actions
D. internal task leadership actions
Ans: D
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership Actions
Difficulty Level: Easy
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
40. Negotiating upward to secure necessary resources, support, and recognition for the
team is an example of ______.
A. an external environmental leadership action
B. a relational external leadership action
C. a task internal leadership action
D. a relational internal leadership action
Ans: A
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership Actions
Difficulty Level: Moderate
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
41. When the leader assessment of the team has determined that the team is
functioning well, what should the leader do?
A. take appropriate action
B. nothing
C. monitor the internal and external environments
D. provide relational coaching
Ans: C
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: How Does Team Leadership Work?
Difficulty Level: Moderate
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
43. Which of the following is not a strength of the team leadership model?
A. its complexity
B. it provides a cognitive guide to aid leaders in maintaining effective teams
C. shared leadership works for all team members’ skill levels
D. it provides for a shared leadership model in organizations
Ans: A
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Strengths
Difficulty Level: Easy
AACSB Standard: Application of knowledge
44. Which of the following is not a criticism of the team leadership model?
A. its complexity
B. it includes only a partial list of skills leaders might use to make team decisions
C. shared leadership might not work for all team members’ skill levels
D. it provides a cognitive guide to aid leaders in maintaining effective teams
Ans: D
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Criticisms
Difficulty Level: Easy
AACSB Standard: Application of knowledge
45. Rafael notices his research and development teammates are not getting along due
to differences in work style. He suggests they participate in a 2-hr workshop on
personality profiles and communication skills. Rafael is applying which type of
leadership action?
A. external environmental
B. internal relational
C. internal task
D. external conflict
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership Actions
Difficulty Level: Easy
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
46. In team leadership theory, two of the leader's primary decisions are ______.
A. to build a vision and implement change
B. to monitor or take action
C. to be a role model and an innovator
D. to organize and to control
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Team Leadership Model
Northouse, Leadership 8e
48. For leaders, McGrath's critical leadership functions do not include which type of
group leadership function?
A. diagnosing group deficiencies
B. preventing deleterious changes
C. negating remedial action
D. forecasting environmental changes
Ans: C
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership Decisions
Difficulty Level: Easy
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
52. Characteristics of team effectiveness include all of the following except ______.
A. unified commitment
B. relationship-driven structure
C. external support
D. collaborative climate
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Team Effectiveness
Difficulty Level: Easy
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
53. Internal relational leadership actions include all of these except ______.
A. collaborating: including, involving
B. managing conflict and power issues
C. building commitment
D. networking and forming alliances
Ans: D
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Team Effectiveness
Difficulty Level: Moderate
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
54. Which of the following is not one of the characteristics of team excellence, according
to Larson and LaFasto?
A. results-driven structure
B. collaborative climate
C. authoritative leadership
D. clear, elevated goal
Ans: C
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Team Effectiveness
Difficulty Level: Easy
Northouse, Leadership 8e
56. What scholar(s) provided grounded research support for the group effectiveness
approach?
A. Hackman and Walton
B. McGrath
C. Larson and LaFasto
D. Hill
Ans: A
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Team Effectiveness
Difficulty Level: Easy
AACSB Standard: Application of knowledge
57. Hill's model for team leadership suggests what number of leadership decisions a
leader must make before taking leadership actions?
A. 4
B. 3
C. 7
D. 5
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Team Leadership Model
Difficulty Level: Easy
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
59. Team leadership research started focusing on more than just outcomes in the
______.
A. 1990s
B. 1960s
C. 1980s
D. 1970s
Ans: A
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Description
Difficulty Level: Easy
AACSB Standard: Contexts of organizations
61. What scholar(s) studied real-life successful teams and found eight characteristics
that were consistently associated with team excellence?
A. Hackman and Walton
B. Hill
C. Larson and LaFasto
D. McGrath
Ans: C
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership Effectiveness
Difficulty Level: Easy
AACSB Standard: Application of knowledge
62. The team leadership model has been criticized for ______.
A. only applying to non-profit organizations
B. failing to recognize external environmental factors
C. being overly complex
D. ignoring the idea that leadership can be shared
Ans: C
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Criticisms
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Northouse, Leadership 8e
64. Liz is a team leader at a local grocery store. Recently, her boss said that she needs
to address the negative attitudes of employees. To try and fix this problem, she has
begun awarding gift-cards to employees who have great attitudes. What internal
leadership intervention is Liz addressing?
A. managing conflict
B. facilitating decisions
C. goal focusing
D. satisfying needs
Ans: C
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Leadership Decisions
Difficulty Level: Moderate
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
66. Internal task leadership actions include all of the following except ______.
A. collaborating
B. goal focusing
C. structuring for results
D. organizing
Ans: A
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Leadership Actions
Northouse, Leadership 8e
67. What model attempts to integrate mediation and monitoring concepts with team
effectiveness?
A. team leadership model
B. critical leadership functions model
C. group effectiveness model
D. team excellence model
Ans: A
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Team Leadership Model
Difficulty Level: Easy
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
68. Forecasting environmental changes fits into what quadrant of the critical leadership
functions?
A. monitor/internal
B. monitor/external
C. executive action/internal
D. executive action/external
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership Actions
Difficulty Level: Easy
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
69. Examples of organizational teams can include all of the following except ______.
A. task force
B. work unit
C. quality team
D. project manager
Ans: D
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Description
Difficulty Level: Easy
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
70. Contemporary organizations are relying more and more on teams for all of the
following reasons except ______.
A. increasingly complex tasks
B. flattening of organizational structures
C. more globalization
D. lack of leadership potential
Ans: D
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Northouse, Leadership 8e
71. An angel investor just provided the financial capital for you to start up a new crop
science technology company. You decide to set up your new business using a team-
based structure because research shows this organizational design, done effectively,
will lead to all of the following except ______.
A. better quality products
B. greater innovation
C. less waste of resources
D. less need for leadership
Ans: D
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Description
Difficulty Level: Moderate
AACSB Standard: Systems and processes in organizations
72. William was recently hired as international relations manager for a large animal
nutrition company. He set up several virtual teams to represent various global regions.
William should expect which of the following to happen?
A. to spend little of his time leading these employees
B. less collaboration among these employees
C. challenges in building trust among teammates
D. increases in company travel costs due to this structure
Ans: C
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Leadership Decisions
Difficulty Level: Moderate
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
73. Hill’s model of team leadership requires a leader to consider all of the following
questions to improve team effectiveness except ______.
A. Which of my personal values are being impacted?
B. What type of intervention should be used?
C. At what level should the intervention be targeted?
D. What leadership function should be implemented?
Ans: A
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Summary
Difficulty Level: Moderate
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
74. The two types of internal leadership actions in Hill’s model of team leadership are
reminiscent of the two dimensions in ______.
A. George’s Authentic Leadership Model
Northouse, Leadership 8e
79. External support and recognition suggests that organizational rewards ______.
A. are unnecessary in team-based work
B. should be targeted at specific individuals on teams
C. should be given to whole teams in recognition of collective accomplishments
D. are best bestowed upon formal team leaders so others can strive for excellence
Ans: C
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Team Effectiveness
Difficulty Level: Moderate
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
80. In Hill’s model of team leadership, a line connects Leadership Decisions with Team
Effectiveness. This represents ______.
A. the continuous process of gathering and analyzing data about the team for decision
making
B. the permission to for the leader to take a “do nothing” approach on effective teams
C. the notion that leadership decisions are ultimately external in nature
D. the bottom line reality that leadership actions do not correlate with team performance
Ans: A
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Team Leadership Model
Difficulty Level: Moderate
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
True/False
2. According to team leadership theory, individuals other than the formal leader can
perform the critical leadership functions.
Ans: T
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership Decisions
Difficulty Level: Moderate
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
4. A mistake commonly made is to call a work group a “team” but treat it as a collection
of individuals.
Ans: T
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Description
Difficulty Level: Easy
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
5. Hill’s model for team leadership outlines a total of seven leadership actions.
Ans: F
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Team Leadership Model
Difficulty Level: Easy
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
7. The team leadership model provides the leader or a designated team member with a
mental road map to diagnose team problems.
Ans: T
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Team Leadership Model
Northouse, Leadership 8e
8. Teams with distributed leadership have some advantages over single leader teams.
Ans: T
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Description
Difficulty Level: Moderate
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
9. In virtual teams, relational functions are more critical than in traditional, face-to-face
teams.
Ans: T
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Description
Difficulty Level: Moderate
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
10. If team goals are unclear, an internal relational intervention is needed to focus on
building commitment.
Ans: F
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership Decisions
Difficulty Level: Moderate
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
Short Answer
2. Effective team performance is said to begin with the leader doing what?
Ans: Effective team performance begins with the leader seeing the situation that the
team is experiencing--the leader’s mental model. This mental model reflects the
components of the problem confronting the team and the environmental and
organizational contingencies.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Team Leadership Model
Difficulty Level: Moderate
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
3. What are the three decisions a leader must make as he or she strives for team
effectiveness?
Ans: Should I monitor the team or take action? Should I intervene to meet task or
relational needs? Should I intervene internally or externally?
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Leadership Decisions
Difficulty Level: Moderate
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
4. The communications director for a national political candidate noticed that the
campaign’s speechwriting team was feeling unmotivated and underappreciated
because no one at campaign headquarters had ever recognized them for their hard
work. The communications director decided to produce a series of short, fun videos
profiling each speechwriter and shared it with top campaign officials in order to better
connect the team to powerful people in the organization. This is an example of what
kind of leadership action?
Ans: Networking and forming alliances, an external environmental leadership action
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Leadership Actions
Difficulty Level: Hard
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal Relations and Teamwork
5. Name a theory or approach studied in our textbook that you feel most closely aligns
with the team leadership approach. Give a one-sentence justification of your response.
Ans: Answers will vary but may include:
Behavioral approach because task and relationship actions are central.
Situational approach because leader has to diagnose a situation.
Path Goal theory because various leader behaviors are outlined.
Servant leadership because the good of the team (or good of others) is considered first.
Adaptive leadership because team members and leaders must get on the balcony and
diagnose their situation and adapt accordingly.
Northouse, Leadership 8e
Essay
1. Describe the monitoring function of team leadership. How does it change in a fast-
paced environment?
Ans: Functions as tool to assess whether the leader needs to step in and repair
problem. Includes continual scanning and observing both the internal functions of the
team and the team’s environment, as well as the need to gather, analyze, organize, and
interpret information to make informed decisions.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership Decisions
Difficulty Level: Moderate
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal relations and teamwork
3. How does management of virtual teams differ from face-to-face teams? Do all parts
of the team leadership model apply as well to virtual teams?
Ans: It is important for virtual leaders to be able to “read” the contexts of silences and
misunderstandings without normal cues to guide them. They need to be very aware of
team flow to anticipate when action is needed and deadlines will not be met. Virtual
team leaders should apply all parts of the team leadership model. They must be even
more attentive and aware of all parts of the model due to the added challenges of virtual
leadership.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Leadership Decisions
Difficulty Level: Moderate
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal relations and teamwork
6. Gender is not mentioned as a relevant factor in this model, but has been mentioned
in other chapters of our textbook. How would Watson and Hoffman (2004) predict that
male and female leaders would be perceived when using the team leadership model?
What would you predict?
Ans: Because so much of the decision making in the team leadership model is task
related, Watson and Hoffman would predict equal influence and team performance
outcomes for men and women leaders. However, women leaders would be rated lower
on likability and leadership, which might affect team effectiveness factors such as
collaborative climate. If the decision-making process involved more internal relational
decisions, one might expect women to be rated equal to men or perhaps even more
highly.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Leadership Decisions
Difficulty Level: Hard
AACSB Standard: Interpersonal relations and teamwork