Test on Understanding Key Leadership Styles
Understanding Key Leadership Styles: A Student's Guide
Test: Leadership styles
20 questions
Question 1: Transactional leaders primarily drive employees towards business goals and targets by separating themselves from the decision-making process and allowing employees to make decisions.
A. Ano
B. Ne
Explanation: A transactional leader uses rewards and punishments to drive employees towards business goals and targets. The act of separating oneself from the decision-making process and allowing employees to make decisions is characteristic of a laissez-faire/free reign leader.
Question 2: A laissez-faire leader allows employees to make decisions in the best interest of the organisation.
A. Ano
B. Ne
Explanation: A laissez-faire/free reign leader delegates decision-making to employees and allows them to make decisions in the best interest of the organisation.
Question 3: Under a laissez-faire leadership style, the decisions made by employees are primarily intended to benefit only the employees themselves rather than the overall organization.
A. Ano
B. Ne
Explanation: A laissez-faire/free reign leader allows employees to make decisions in the best interest of the organisation.
Question 4: Under an autocratic leadership style, employees are encouraged to question the leader's decisions.
A. Ano
B. Ne
Explanation: The study materials state that under an autocratic leadership style, employees must execute the decisions of the leader without questioning his/her decisions. They are not encouraged to question.
Question 5: A democratic leader involves employees in the decision-making process.
A. Ano
B. Ne
Explanation: A democratic leader involves employees in the decision-making process. This inclusive approach by the leader ensures the support of employees in decisions made by the leader.