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Q29. Participative leadership is most likely to be effective in a culture with:

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Q29. Participative leadership is most likely to be effective in a culture with:
   a. high collectivism
   b. low power distance
   c. high gender egalitarianism
   d. low performance orientation

Q17. Research at CCL indicates that the least amount of learning occurred for managers who had:
   a. assignments for which they were well prepared
   b. challenges they had to face alone
   c. opportunities to make mistakes
   d. diverse experiences with different types of challenges

Q18. Which statement about leadership development in organizations is least likely to be accurate:
   a. leadership development should be consistent with organization strategy
   b. developmental activities should be coordinated with formal training
   c. self development activities should be maximized to reduce costs
   d. leadership development should be integrated with succession planning
Q34. Which of the following is not characteristic of most leadership research?
   a. an assumption of strong effects by heroic individual leaders
   b. a focus on dyadic processes rather than collective processes
   c. an emphasis on explanatory processes and mediating variables
   d. an assumption of unidirectional causality from leader to followers
Q38. Which of the following is not a common feature of leadership research?
   a. surveys conducted in real organizations
   b. studies conducted to test leadership theories
   c. studies that involve field experiments
   d. studies with retrospective ratings of leader behavior

Explanation / Answer

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29. b) Low power distance – because to collect ideas and opinions of every employee, the manager and team leaders have to stay closer to their sub ordinates – hence the power distance must be low

17. a. when they are already well prepared for the assignments, then there is no surprise and excitement component and hence they get bored and do not learn much.

CCL Research

18. d. succession planning is not related to Leadership development

34. c. an emphasis on explanatory processes and mediating variables is not a characteristic of most leadership research

38. c. Studies involving field experiments is not a common feature of leadership research because conducting experiments on the field does not have anything to do with the art of leadership.

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