Leadership MCQs Multiple Choice Questions

By: Prof. Dr. Fazal Rehman Shamil | Last updated: January 31, 2025

I am sharing with you important Leadership MCQs collected from past papers.

Q#1___________ Which approach is used in Organizations, hiring hundreds of new employees every year towards the recruiting process:

(A) systematic approach
(B) indirect approach
(C) direct approach
(D) organizational approach

Answer: A


Q#2___________ Monthly Market Report is an analysis of business done during the __________________:

(A) Whole day
(B) Whole month
(C) Whole week
(D) None

Answer: B


Q#3___________ Screening stage, ___________ stage and final stage are the three stages of interview process:

(A) opportunity
(B) collection
(C) selection
(D) None

Answer: C

qualities of a good leadership
qualities of a good leadershipQ#4___________ The effectiveness of a leader is dependent upon meeting _______ areas of need within the workgroup:

(A) One
(B) Three
(C) Five
(D) None of the above

Answer: (B)


Q#5___________ Needs, setting standards and maintaining discipline, and appointing sub-leaders according to Adair’s approach, called as:
(A) Work functions
(B) Task functions
(C) Individual functions
(D) Team functions

Answer: (D)


Q#6___________ The Ohio State Leadership Studies revealed _____________ and initiating structure as two major dimensions of leadership behaviour:
(A) Control
(B) Communication
(C) Collaboration
(D) Consideration

Answer: (D)


Q#7___________ _________ used the terms “employee-centred” and “production-centred” to describe leader behaviour:
(A) Blake and McCanse
(B) Fiedler
(C) McGregor
(D) Likert

Answer: (D)


Q#8___________ Identify the four main styles of leadership displayed by the manager which identified in Tannenbaum and Schmidt’s continuum of possible leadership behaviour:
(A) Tells, help, joins and leads
(B) Commands, sells, consults and resists
(C) Tells, sells, consults and joins
(D) Commands, help, joins and leads

Answer: (C)


difference between leader vs manager
difference between leader vs manager

Q#9 Contingency theories of leadership based upon:
(A) That there is no single style of leadership appropriate to all situations
(B) That there is a single style of leadership appropriate to all managers
(C) That there is a single style of leadership appropriate to all situations
(D) None of the above

Answer: (A)


Q#10 Leaders with a low LPC score gain satisfaction from _______________ according to Fiedler’s LPC scale:
(A) Developing team relationships
(B) Achieving objectives
(C) Both of these
(D) None of the above

Answer: (B)


Q#11 Model of leadership based on which aspects of a leader’s decision is Vroom and Yetton’s contingency?
(A) Decision acceptance
(B) Decision quality
(C) Both of these
(D) None of the above

Answer: (C)


Q#12 An individual’s motivation is dependent on:
(A) Whether path-goal relationships are clarified
(B) Expectations that increased effort to achieve an improved level of performance will be successful
(C) Their effective performance
(D) The necessary direction, guidance, training and support is provided

Answer: (B)


Q#13 The best example of a firm following a cost-leadership business strategy is:
(A) Wal-Mart
(B) Rolls Royce
(C) Mercedes Benz
(D) Macy’s

Answer: (A)


Q#14 Cost-leadership and product-differentiation strategies are so widely recognized that they are often called:
(A) common business strategies
(B) generic business strategies
(C) generic corporate strategies
(D) common corporate strategies

Answer: (B)


Q#15 Cost leadership as a strategy requires a firm to:
(A) aim at a cost advantage in a niche market
(B) be unique in its product offering
(C) aggressively search out efficiencies to maintain the lowest cost structure
(D) aim to be similar to its competition in most operations

Answer: (C)


Q#16 Firms implementing cost-leadership strategies will generally adopt a:
(A) multidivisional structure
(B) functional organizational structure
(C) product divisional structure
(D) matrix structure

Answer: (B)


Q#17 Firms implementing cost-leadership strategies will have ________ layers in their reporting structure:
(A) relatively complex
(B) relatively simple
(C) relatively few
(D) many

Answer: (D)


Q#18 The typical risks of a cost leadership strategy includes:
(A) production and distribution processes becoming obsolete
(B) the inability to balance high differentiation and low price
(C) excessive differentiation to
(D) loss of customer loyalty

Answer: (A)


Q#19 One aspect of using a cost leadership strategy is that experience effects may lead to lower costs. Experience effects are achieved by:
Answer: Repeating a process until a task becomes easier.


Q#20 Firms pursuing a cost-leadership strategy are typically characterized by:
(A) loose cost control systems
(B) close supervision of labor, raw materials, inventory, and other costs
(C) Both A and B
(D) a de-emphasis on quantitative cost goals and costs
(E) None of these

Answer: (B)


Q#21 What must a cost-leadership strategy accomplish to be successful?
(A) It must increase the firm’s cost above that of its competitors while offering adequate value
(B) It must reduce the firm’s cost below that of its competitors while offering superior value
(C) Both A and B
(D) It must reduce the firm’s cost below that of its competitors while offering adequate value
(E) None of these

Answer: (D)


Q#22 In the leadership theories of management, Being a leader would mean:
(A) effective leaders prioritize the needs and well-being of their followers
(B) leaders inspire and motivate their followers to achieve common goals by communicating a concise and clear vision and mission of the organization
(C) leaders possess certain traits or qualities, such as intelligence, and self-confidence
(D) All of these

Answer: (D)


Q#23 True/False: Compensation at cost-leadership firms is usually tied directly to product innovation and customer service efforts.
Answer: False


Q#24 True/False: One aspect of using a cost-leadership strategy is that experience effects may lead to lower costs.
Answer: True


Q#25 True/False: A firm that chooses a cost-leadership business strategy focuses on gaining advantages by reducing its costs to a level equal to all of its competitors.
Answer: False


Q#26 True/False: A cost-leadership competitive strategy helps reduce the threat of entry by creating cost-based barriers to entry.
Answer: True


Q#27 True/False: Cost leadership and product differentiation are so widely recognized that they are often called generic business strategies.
Answer: True


Q#28 True/False: Firms implementing cost-leadership strategies will generally adopt what is known as a functional organizational structure.
Answer: True


Q#29 True/False: In general, economies of scale and diseconomies of scale are relatively easy-to-duplicate bases of cost leadership.
Answer: True

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