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LDR 535 Final Exam Guide (New, 2018)
LDR 535 Week 1 Individual Assignment CAREER CONNECTION
Leadership Theories Worksheet
LDR 535 Week 2 Team Strategic Leadership and Change Paper, Part
I
LDR 535 Week 3 Team Assignment Strategic Leadership and Change
Paper, Part II
LDR 535 Week 3 Individual Assignment Positive Leadership Theory
and Change
Paper, Part III
LDR 535 Week 5 Team Assignment Organizational Culture and
Leading Change
LDR 535 Week 5 Individual Leadership Development Journal, Entry
#5
LDR 535 Week 6 CAREER CONNECTION Leadership
Development Journal – Final
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LDR 535 Entire Course (Without Final Guide)

LDR 535 Week 1 Individual Assignment CAREER CONNECTION
Leadership Theories Worksheet
LDR 535 Week 2 Team Strategic Leadership and Change Paper, Part
I
Paper, Part II
LDR 535 Week 3 Individual Assignment Positive Leadership Theory
and Change
Paper, Part III
LDR 535 Week 5 Team Assignment Organizational Culture and
Leading Change

LDR 535 Week 5 Individual Leadership Development Journal, Entry
#5
LDR 535 Week 6 CAREER CONNECTION Leadership
Development Journal – Final
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LDR 535 Final Exam Guide (New, 2018)
1
____ involves the creative cooperation of people working together to
achieve something beyond the capacities of individuals working
alone.
Groupthink
Functional teamwork
•
Virtual teamwork
•
Synergy
2
From a humanistic point of view, resistance to change has a cognitive,
emotional and behavioral dimension. The fear of loss, (such as status,
pay, job, or position), and fear of the unknown are examples of the
____ dimension.
•

Cognitive
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Emotional
•
Cultural
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Behavioral
3
____ leadership actions are explicit and highly visible and are
indicative of management’s commitment to new strategic initiatives
and the associated cultural changes.
•
Values-based
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Substantive
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Symbolic
•
Traditional
4
The strength of any culture depends on:
•
The degree to which a set of norms and values are widely shared and
strongly held throughout the organization.
•
The leader’s relationship with his or her followers.
•
How diverse the organization is.
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How much the organization embraces change.
5
Which of the following tasks point to the essential competencies of
crisis leaders? The ability to:
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Stay out of the way
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Manage people

•
Delegate
•
Apply from the hip decisions
6
A leader who communicates high expectations, shows competence,
and sets a strong role model is using behaviors of:
•
Path-goal leadership
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Transactional leadership
•
Charismatic leadership
•
Situational leadership
7
The second step of the force-field model is about the execution of the
change. The key is developing new ____________ that are aligned
with the proposed change.
•
Policies and procedures
•
Attitudes, values, and behaviors
•
Marketing schemes
•
Employees
8
Pat Smith is a personnel director for a large bank. Her major goal is to
find a person who can adapt his or her leadership to different types of
people and situations. Pat is basing her selections on:
•
The trait approach
•

Leaders emergence theory
•
The skills approach
•
The great person approach
9
In the five-step crisis risk assessment model, ________________ can
be used to test employees’ responsiveness and sensitize the
organization to any potential crisis.
•
Step 4, risk reduction
•
Step 4, crisis prevention simulations
•
Step 2, risk assessment and ranking
•
Step 5, crisis management
10
Which of the stages of the Crisis Management Plan involve reviewing
the effectiveness of the plan to see what worked?
•
Leading during a Crisis
•
Adapting after a Crisis
•
Plan Formulation
•
Pre-Crisis Planning
11
To be a successful leader, you need three managerial leadership skills,
one of which is ____ skill, which involves the ability to use methods
and techniques to perform a task.
•
decision-making
•
team-building
•

interpersonal
•
technical
12
To motivate employees with a high n Aff, you should:
•
Criticize and praise in equal parts.
•
Try to include them in decision making.
•
Have them work independently.
•
Delegate responsibility for orienting and training new employees to
them.
13
The leader is at the core of group change and activity, representing the
backbone of the group or organization. Leadership is viewed as:
•
Leadership as an act
•
Focus of group processes
•
Leadership as a behavior
•
Personality perspective
14
Which of the following is an advantage to team-centered decision-
making?
•
Team members prefer assuming responsibility
•
It results in higher commitment by the leader
•
It can improve decision quality
•
Decisions happen quickly
15

Leaders who regard ________ as a distraction rather than a real and
legitimate concern will find it hard to move beyond the first step of
the change management model.
•
Personal values
•
Culture
•
Cultural identity
•
Resistance
16
Effective crisis communication is part of which of the three stages of
the Crisis Management Plan?
•
Leading during a Crisis
•
Adapting after a Crisis
•
Plan Formulation
•
Pre-Crisis Planning
17
In a high power-distance culture:
•
Leaders and their followers rarely interact as equals.
•
Leaders and their followers interact on several levels as equals.
•
Emphasis is on developing and nurturing personal relationships.
•
Emphasis is on assertiveness and a competitive drive for money.
18
The strategic management process consists of five key decision areas
laid out in five steps; the last step is:
•
Strategy evaluation and control

•
Strategy formulation
•
Strategy execution
•
Setting objectives
19
The four primary elements of mindfulness as it relates to leadership
are:
•
Optimization of attitudes and emotional intelligence, integration of
attention, clarify of intention, and mastery of strategic leadership.
•
Mastery of intention, clarity of attention, optimized vision, and
strategic mission.
•
Clarify of intention, mastery of attention, optimization of attitudes,
and separation of daily life, work, and relationship.
•
Mastery of attention, clarity of intention, optimization of attitude and
emotional intelligence, and integration into every domain of daily life,
work and relationships.
20
Although there are clear differences between management and
leadership:
•
The two constructs overlap.
•
There is little research to support one or the other.
•
Leadership is more valued than management.
•
Management is more valued than leadership.
21
You have been hired as CEO of Lugar Industries and have been asked
to change the organizational culture. Because your company operates
in a quickly changing environment, you need to have a culture that

encourages employees to respond quickly to changes, take risks,
innovate, and have the authority to make quick decisions to take
advantage of opportunities and to avoid risks. Based on these
conditions, you, as CEO, want a(n) ____ culture.
•
bureaucratic
•
competitive
•
cooperative
•
adaptive
22
_________ emphasizes a transparent and high-quality exchange
relationship between leaders and followers, allowing for the formation
of positive leader–member exchange relationships.
•
Adaptive leadership
•
Diversity leaders
•
Authentic leadership
•
Ethnocentrism leadership
23
To motivate his highest performers, a manager gives his highest
performer each month an “Employee of the Month” award and a
parking space next to his. Of what motivational theory is this an
example?
•
Expectancy
•
Equity
•
Reinforcement
•
Goal-setting

24
Social loafing is likely to result when:
•
Individual-level performance appraisal occurs
•
Teams are extremely cohesive
•
Individual effort is not recognized or assessed
•
There is a lack of motivation within the team
25
José has consistently exceeded his sales projections for the past four
quarters. His supervisor gave him a promotion because of his high
sales success. His supervisor is using:
•
Transactional leadership
•
Laissez-faire leadership
•
Transformational leadership
•
Middle-of-the-road leadership
26
What type of challenge occurred when the problem employees
encountered was clearly defined but difficult to solve?
•
An adaptive challenge
•
A non-challenge
•
A technical and adaptive challenge
•
A technical challenge
27

The strategic management process consists of five key decision areas
laid out in five steps; the first step is:
•
Strategy execution
•
Setting objectives
•
Strategy formulation
•
Crafting a strategic vision and mission statement
28
Adaptive leadership is a unique kind of leadership in that:
•
It focuses on the dynamics of mobilizing people to address change
•
It describes the transformational processes in complex organizations
•
It describes the process of rewards and punishments used in
leadership
•
It focuses on the leader’s behaviors as a reflection of the followers
29
The emerging approach called servant leadership:
•
Focuses on followers’ needs
•
Focuses on traits
•
Focuses on adapting to solve problems
•
Focuses on spirituality

30
Team ______ is the creation of something valuable, useful, and novel
by individuals working together in a complex social system.
•
socialization
•
learning
•
wanderer
•
creativity
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LDR 535 Final Exam Guide
1) According to the path-goal theory, supportive leadership
contributes most to subordinate satisfaction and motivation when the
task is
2) What is a facilitating condition according to the social contagion
theory of charismatic leadership?
3) What is the most common indicator of personal integrity in the
theories of ethical leadership?
4) What is the most likely benefit from using participation in decision
making?
5) Which decision procedure combines participation with leader
control over the final decision?

6) What is the most appropriate strategy for a leader when there is a
decision that involves a conflict among the interests of different
stakeholders?
7) One of the major determinants of how and why an individual
initiates and sustains certain behaviors is based on
8) Perception based on what someone can see, hear, smell, and so
forth is called
9) Perception based on interactions among broad sociocultural factors
is called
10) The theory that leads managers to believe that all employees are
inherently lazy, lacking desire and ambition is
11) The theory that leads managers to more reality testing around
tasks, time, pressures, and so forth, is known as
12) The idea of a hierarchy of needs that includes physiological,
security, social, self-esteem, and self-actualization needs was
formulated by:
13) What pace and sequencing of desired changes has received
research support?
14) Which is most likely to be effective for implementing major
change?
15) Which action would be considered a guideline for implementing
change?
16) The levels of organization change include
17) The physical/technical layer is:
18) Organizational culture is best described as
19) Which approach to influence culture would be classified as a
direct action by a leader?
20) Which two kinds of power have been found to be related most
strongly to leader effectiveness in motivating subordinates?
21) Control over information is likely to give a manager power over
22) The status and influence accorded an emergent leader depends
primarily on
23) Referent power is most likely to result in which type of influence
process?
24) What statement about influence objectives is most accurate?
25) Which influence tactic would most likely be used laterally as
compared to downward?

26) Resistance by a subordinate to a change proposed by the boss is
best viewed as
27) What is the best way for a CEO to deal with managers in key
positions who continue to resist a major change?
28) At which stage of growth is it usually most difficult to change an
organization’s culture?
29) Lewin’s three-step change framework consists of these phases
30) For those individuals with lower levels of organizational security,
the impact of change has been equated to a process similar to
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LDR 535 Week 1 DQ 1
Week 1 DQ 1
Briefly describe an organizational change you have experienced.
Which leadership styles did you observe from those who implemented
the change? If you also managed the change, what leadership style did
you use? How did these leadership styles promote or impede the
change initiative?
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LDR 535 Week 1 DQ 2

Week 1 DQ 2
Who is responsible for leadership during organizational change? How
might the style of those leading change affect the organizational
change?
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LDR 535 Week 1 Individual Assignment
CAREER CONNECTION LeadershipTheories
Worksheet
Complete the Leadership Theories Worksheet with the following
information:
 Identify five leadership theories
 Describe the strengths of each leadership theory
 Describe the weaknesses of each leadership theory
 Provide an example of an appropriate application of each theory
in the workplace
 Provide an example of an inappropriate application of each
theory in the workplace
Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.
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LDR 535 Week 2 DQ 1
Week 2 DQ 1
What factors affect one’s attitude? How might one’s attitude affect
one’s behavior? How do emotions influence behavior? How does the
psychological contract affect one’s attitude and behavior?
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LDR 535 Week 2 DQ 2
Week 2 DQ 2
How might conflicting values of an employee and manager affect the
employee’s behavior? How might conflicting personalities on a team
influence individual behaviors? How might consultants influence
those managing a change initiative when a conflict of personality or
values exists?

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LDR 535 Week 2 Team Strategic Leadership
and Change Paper, Part I
Select an organization that has undergone a large-scale change to use
as the team's company in the profile.
Write a summary of no more than 350-words in which you include
the following:
 Industry and organization description
 Current executive leadership structure
 The rationale for choosing this organization
Format the summary consistent with APA guidelines.
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LDR 535 Week 3 DQ 1

Week 3 DQ 1
Compare the information in Ch. 10 of Leadership in Organizations on
different types of organizational change with the information in the
Microsoft® PowerPoint® Layers of Organizational Change slide.
What parallels can be drawn among the four approaches to
organizational change described by Yukl and the three levels
identified in the University of Phoenix Material? Which change
initiatives might be easier and which might be more difficult? Explain
your answer.
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LDR 535 Week 3 DQ 2
Week 3 DQ 2
Why is knowledge of the current organizational culture important
during a change initiative? How might the organizational culture
affect the success of a change initiative? As a consultant, what
approach would you take if the client organization has a culture that
resists change?
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LDR 535 Week 3 Individual
AssignmentPositive Leadership Theory and
Change

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you articulate the
relationship between positive leadership and change. Address the
following points in your paper:
 Define Positive Leadership Theory and provide examples from
your readings.
 Discuss how positive leadership leads to employee engagement
during times of change.
 Discuss how positive leadership reduces employee resistance to
change.
 Compare and contrast positive change leadership and
management with specific examples from the text, outside
sources, and/or personal examples. What are some different
leadership and management roles and functions? How are these
roles similar? How are they different?
 Provide a rationale for your answers.
Cite at least two peer reviewed sources in addition to the textbook.
Format consistent with APA Guidelines.
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LDR 535 Week 3 Team Assignment Strategic
Leadership and Change Paper, Part II

Write a 1,750- to 2,450-word draft version of the Strategic
Leadership and Change paper. Include the following in the paper.
 Introduction
o Industry and organization description
o Current executive leadership structure
o How effective the current leadership team is at providing
strategic leadership
o Provide a critique of the organization's mission statement
and strategic vision
o Discuss whether or not the long-term vision is adaptive
and supports change or is rigid and resists change.
 Change
o Describe the nature of the change.
o Identify the role leadership played during the change.
o Was the change successful?
o How did the organization deal with resistance?
o What influence would mindful leadership have on
resistance to change?
o Discuss the role of intra and entrepreneurial competencies
as applied to organizational leadership during change.
 Conclusion
Cite at least 2 peer reviewed sources other than your textbook.
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LDR 535 Week 4 DQ 1

Week 4 DQ 1
How might power affect the relationship between managers, peers,
and subordinates? How might these relationship dynamics be affected
by an organizational change? As a consultant, how might the level of
the organizational change, be it technical level, infrastructure level, or
value level, change how you leverage the existing power structure?
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LDR 535 Week 4 DQ 2
Week 4 DQ 2
How is influence different from power? As a consultant, which
influence tactics might you use during a change initiative? With
whom would you use each influence tactic? How might you use your
knowledge of the client power structure to strategically select your
influence tactic?
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LDR 535 Week 4 Team Assignment Strategic
Leadership and Change Paper, Part III

Write a 1,750- to 2,450-word paper in which you discuss strategic
leadership and change. Include the following in the paper:
 Introduction
o Industry and organization description
o Current executive leadership structure
o How effective the current leadership team is at providing
strategic leadership
o Provide a critique of the organization's mission statement
and strategic vision.
o Discuss whether or not the long-term vision is adaptive
and supports change or is rigid and resists change.
 Change
o Describe the nature of the change.
o Identify the role leadership played during the change.
o Was the change successful?
o How did the organization deal with resistance?
o What influence would mindful leadership have on
resistance to change?
o Discuss the role of intra and entrepreneurial competencies
have as applied to organizational leadership during
change.
 Conclusion
Cite at least 2 peer reviewed sources other than your textbook.
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LDR 535 Week 5 DQ 1
Week 5 DQ 1
What are four potential barriers to change? How might these impede
the success of a change initiative? As a consultant, what mitigation
strategies might you propose to your client for each of the potential
barriers you identified?
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LDR 535 Week 5 DQ 2
Week 5 DQ 2
What information would you use to develop strategies for
implementing change? How would you decide which approach would
best facilitate the change initiative?
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LDR 535 Week 5 Individual Leadership
Development Journal, Entry #5
Complete the Perceived Leader Integrity Scale.
Summarize your results in Leadership Development Journal: Entry
#5. Include in the summary:
 How you see yourself and your integrity
 What the self-assessment indicates about you
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LDR 535 Week 5 Team Assignment
Organizational Culture and Leading Change
Prepare an Executive Summary of no more than 350-words.

Create a 7- to 10-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® Presentation that
discusses the role culture plays in organizational change. At a
minimum, include the following:
 Define organizational culture.
 Discuss the roots of organizational culture.
 Discuss the role organizational culture plays during times of
change.
 Discuss the role leadership plays in forming and challenging
cultural norms.
 Organizational ethics and ethical considerations or change.
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LDR 535 Week 6 CAREER CONNECTION
Leadership Development Journal - Final
Complete the Adaptive Leadership Questionnaire.
Summarize your results in Leadership Development Journal: Entry
#5. Include in the summary:
 How you see yourself and your strategic leadership traits
 What the self-assessment indicates about you
Finalize your Leadership Development Journal. Include in the
Leadership Development Journal:
 The weekly entries for the Journal including the summaries and
results for the assessment tools

 Your overall assessment based on your weekly self-assessments
and what you have learned about leadership through the course,
course readings, and other resources
 How you will use what you've learned about yourself and your
leadership skills to help you in your current or planned career
path
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LDR 535 Week 6 DQ 1
Week 6 DQ 1
In the article, “Mapping Out a Game Plan for Change” found in your
Electronic Reserve Readings for Week Five, the author says “Plan to
be wrong.” What does he mean by this? Why is it important to create
a change management plan that is flexible enough for this?
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