What concept is servant leadership based upon?
A) Trusting and valuing employees
B) Genuinely liking your colleagues
C) A laissez-faire style of leadership
D) A dynamic leadership charisma
Ans: A
Feedback: These managers, termed servant leaders, put serving others, including employees,
customers, and the community, as the number-one priority. In addition, servant leaders
foster a service inclination in others that promotes collaboration, te
What is the critical leadership skill when attempting to build a cooperative and effective
team?
A) Showing their true feelings
B) Empathizing with followers
C) Identifying existing emotions in themselves and others
D) Manipulating the emotions of all inv
Ans: C
Feedback: Theorists studying emotional intelligence posit that the ability to identify emotions in
themselves and in others is a critical ingredient of leaders, enabling them to build a
cooperative and effective team. While the other options may ha
Which principle will help increase the likelihood that followers do not mislead their
leader?
A) Support the followers' right to disagree
B) Rely only on facts and discount intuition
C) Discourage acceptance until the facts are proved
D) Identify who to r
Ans: A
Feedback: There is no guarantee that followers will not mislead leaders, but adhering to certain
principles, such as making sure that followers are allowed to disagree, will guard against
this happening. The remaining options are flawed in the prin
Which statement regarding the characteristics of a good leader is true?
A) They are totally trustworthy
B) They may have character flaws
C) They are by nature good intentioned
D) Charisma is their strongest attribute
Ans: B
Feedback: Leaders may be deceitful and trustworthy, greedy and generous, and cowardly and
brave. To assume that all good leaders are good people is foolhardy and makes us blind
to the human condition. It is only when we recognize and manage our fai
To decrease overtime, the manager of a surgical unit offers nurses who get their work finished on time for an entire 2-month period an extra day off with pay at regular time. What is this an example of?
A) Bribing nurses
B) Quantum leadership
C) Principal
Ans: C
Feedback: Principal agent theory suggests that followers may have an informational (expertise or
knowledge) advantage over the leader as well as their own preferences, which may
deviate from that of the principal. This may lead to a misalignment of
Which statement concerning nursing leadership functioning at its potential is true?
A) The leadership role is most important in nursing today
B) Leadership is most important in managing health-care costs
C) The most important nursing leadership role is be
Ans: D
Feedback: For managers and leaders to function at their greatest potential, the two roles must be integrated. The other statements are not true.
What is the conclusion of interactional theories regarding successful leadership?
A) Leaders, followers, and the situation were all variables that interacted
B) The situation had the most profound effect on success in leadership
C) The situation has a gre
Ans: A
Feedback: The successful leader will diagnose the situation before applying strategies from a large
repertoire of skills that involve assessing the various variables presented by the leader, the followers and the situation. The remaining options ar
What is an example of a positive outcome of a leader's emotional intelligence?
A) Emotions are held in check
B) Emotions are used effectively
C) Expression of one's emotions is expected
D) Expression of one's emotions is encouraged
Ans: B
Feedback: Emotional intelligence refers to the ability to use emotions effectively and is required by
leader-managers in order to enhance their success. Holding one's emotions in check can be unhealthy. The remaining options do not address the usef
A manager has proposed to the hospital board that it hires someone to teach
management and leadership classes and that head nurses are paid to attend the classes.
What is this an example of?
A) Using emotional intelligence
B) Transformational leadership
C
Ans: C
Feedback: By providing classes in leadership, the manager is investing in the potential of the head
nurse staff to become better leaders and managers. Human capital refers to the attributes of a person that are productive in some economic context,
An organization has hired six RNs who have recently immigrated to the United States. The manager has noticed they interact very little with other staff, often speaking in their own language during their breaks, although they speak English while on duty. W
Ans: D
Feedback:
Providing an opportunity for both groups of nurses to share their cultural heritage and
differences in nursing care is an opportunity to promote acceptance among all members
of the staff. It has been established that speaking the language
What is a focus of thought leadership?
A) Challenging the status quo
B) Learning new technology
C) Keeping up with current nursing knowledge
D) Being a transformational leader
Ans: A
Feedback: Thought leadership applies to a person who is recognized among his or her peers for innovative ideas and who demonstrates the confidence to promote those ideas. Thus, thought leadership refers to any situation in which one individual conv
What statement describes the concept of quantum leadership?
A) Ability to use emotions effectively that is required by leader-managers in order to
enhance their success
B) In order to lead, leaders must be true to themselves and their values and act
accor
Ans: D
Feedback: Quantum leadership suggests that the environment and context in which people work is
complex and dynamic and that this has a direct impact on organizational productivity
required by leader-managers in order to enhance their success. Authe
A transition has occurred in the twenty-first-century industrial age leadership to what type of leadership?
A) Relationship age
B) Quantum
C) Authentic
D) Thought
Ans: A
Feedback: A transition has occurred in the twenty-first-century industrial age leadership to relationship age leadership. Quantum leadership suggests that the environment and context in which people work is complex and dynamic and that this has a d
There are current and future paradigm shifts in health care that affect the leadership
skills needed by nurses in the twenty-first century. What issue at the organizational and unit levels are nurse-leaders being directed to address?
A) Active involvement
Ans: D
Feedback: At the organizational and unit levels, nurse-leaders are being directed to address high turnover rates by staff, an emerging shortage of qualified top-level nursing
administrators, growing trends toward unionization, and intensified effor
How many characteristics such as servant leadership does Tabaka suggest is required of an agile organization today?
A) 1
B) 5
C) 10
D) 15
Ans: C
Feedback: Tabaka suggests that servant leadership is one of the top 10 characteristics of an agile organization today.
Goleman in his best seller Emotional Intelligence identifies self-awareness as one of the five components of emotional intelligence. What is self-awareness?
A) The ability to recognize and understand one's moods, emotions, and drives as well
as their effe
Ans: A
Feedback: Self-awareness: The ability to recognize and understand one's moods, emotions, and drives as well as their effects on others. Self-regulation: The ability to control or redirect disruptive impulses or moods as well as the propensity to su
Goleman in his best seller Emotional Intelligence built upon work in his identification
of five components of emotional intelligence. Which component of emotional intelligence is occurring when a person is proficiently handling relationships and building
Ans: D
Feedback: Social skills: Proficiency in handling relationships and building networks; an ability to find common ground. Self-regulation: The ability to control or redirect disruptive
impulses or moods as well as the propensity to suspend judgment.
Shirey suggests there are five distinguishing characteristics of authentic leaders. Which
characteristic is occurring when authentic leaders link between purpose and passion by having congruence in beliefs and actions?
A) Purpose
B) Values
C) Heart
D) Rel
Ans: B
Feedback:
Values: Authentic leaders link between purpose and passion by having congruence in beliefs and actions. Purpose: Authentic leaders understand their own purposes and passions as a result of ongoing self-reflection and self-awareness. Heart
Avolio states that there are four factors that cover the components of authentic
leadership. What is occurring when analyzing data rationally before making decisions?
A) Balanced processing
B) Internalized moral perspective
C) Relational transparency
D) S
Ans: A
Feedback: Balanced processing refers to analyzing data rationally before making decisions.
Internalized moral perspective suggests that the authentic leader is guided by internal moral standards, which then guide his/her behavior. Relational transp
Avolio states that there are four factors that cover the components of authentic
leadership. What is occurring when one openly shares feelings and information
appropriate to a situation?
A) Balanced processing
B) Internalized moral perspective
C) Relation
Ans: C
Feedback: Relational transparency refers to openly sharing feelings and information appropriate to
a situation. Balanced processing refers to analyzing data rationally before making decisions. Internalized moral perspective suggests that the authen
Which action is associated with relationship age leadership? Select all that apply.
A) Communicates regularly with subordinates
B) Encourages teamwork to achieve problem solving
C) Includes committee representatives from all areas that will be affected by
Ans: A, B, C, D
Feedback: People skills, cooperation, and valuing staff knowledge are all characteristics of the
relationship age leader. Focus on fact gathering rather than finding the meaning of the data is characteristic of an industrial age leader.
A manager demonstrating an understanding of the principles of Human Capital theory will schedule which staff in-service? Select all that apply.
A) Effective communication skills
B) Financial planning for retirement
C) Advanced cardiopulmonary resuscitatio
Ans: A, C, D
Feedback: Human capital can refer to a group's collective knowledge, skills, and abilities. Human capital theory suggests that individuals and/or organizations will invest in
education and professional development if they believe that such an
Which activity supports the principles of strengths-based leadership?
A) Tuition reimbursement for LPN to RN transition programs
B) Rehab services to staff diagnosed with abuse problems
C) Mental health counseling for depression and anxiety
D) Smoking ces
Ans: A
Feedback: Strengths-based leadership, which grew out of the positive psychology movement (began in the late 1990s), focuses on the development or empowerment of workers'
strengths as opposed to identifying problems, improving underperformance, and
Which characteristics are associated with Collin's Highly Capable Individual level of leadership? Select all that apply.
A) Possesses useful knowledge
B) Builds effective interdisciplinary teams
C) Galvanizes members to achieve goals
D) Demonstrates effec
Ans: A, D
Feedback: Level 1: Highly capable individual makes high quality contributions with their work; possesses useful levels of knowledge; and has the talent and skills needed to do a good job. Team building is a Level 2 characteristic. Organizational
Which response is characteristic of a servant leader?
A) I don't think you have the skills necessary to be effective.
B) Let me think about that request for 24 hours.
C) Do whatever it takes to get it done fast.
D) I'll personal handle this situation.
Ans: B
Feedback: A servant leader always thinks before reacting. This leader also chooses words carefully so as to not damage those being led, provides directions toward goal achievement, and
finds asking for input more important than personally providing