What is emotional intelligence and how is it related to effective leaders?

What is authentic leadership and what are the characteristics of authentic leaders?

What are the differences among the cost leadership, differentiation, focused cost leadership, focused differentiation, and integrated cost leadership/differentiation business-level strategy

What are the four leadership behaviors in the path-goal theory of leadership?

What are the leadership behaviors in the path-goal theory of leadership?

What is the nature of leadership and the leadership process?

The two types of visionary leadership are _____.

a. tactical leadership and charismatic leadership

b. charismatic leadership and transformational leadership

c. situational leadership and transactional leadership

d. transformational leadership and transactional leadership

e. situational leadership and strategic leadership

Which type of organizational structure enables a company to better serve the local market?

A. Product organizational structure

B. Geographical organizational structure

C. Flat organizational structure

D. Functional organizational structure

What is the role of top management in organizational ethics?

What is the purpose of the world trade organization?

How does a company's ethical behavior impact organizational outcomes?

What is a situational style of leadership?

Managerial efforts to boost a company's stock price should entail such actions as

A.) spending amounts on corporate citizenship and social responsibility that are above the industry average, boosting the company's dividend payout ratio to more than 100%, and paying off all long-term debt within 2 years.

B.) paying off all long-term debt as rapidly as possible, keeping the company's dividend payout ratio between 25% and 50%, spending additional money on corporate citizenship and social responsibility, and maintaining a credit rating that is no less than B+.

C.) raising the company's dividend each year (ideally by at least exist.05 per share) and repurchasing shares of common stock.

D.) increasing the company's dividends each year, keeping the company's credit rating at A (or above), spending sufficient money on corporate citizenship and social responsibility to earn a Gold Star Award for Exemplary Corporate citizenship and issuing a sufficient number of shares of common stock to pay off all long-term debt.

E.) charging a price for branded footwear that is below the industry average in all geographic regions, spending amounts on corporate citizenship and social responsibility that are below the industry average, keeping the company's image rating above 70, paying a dividend each year that equals projected EPS, and repurchasing shares of common stock."

Which of the following is a way to reduce costs and strive to achieve a competitive advantage based on lower overall costs per pair sold than rival companies?

a. Building production plants in all four geographic regions

b. Investing in one or more plant upgrades that have the effect of lowering manufacturing costs per pair produced

c. Avoiding the use of overtime at the company's plants

d. Avoiding producing private-label shoes

e. Keeping advertising costs in each geographic region to amounts that are below the industry average in that region