True / False
1. Self-help is an important part of leadership development.
a.
True
b.
False
2. A leader who engages in double-loop learning questions the efficacy of his or her leadership.
a.
True
b.
False
True
Easy
15.1 – Explain how leaders develop through self-awareness and self-discipline.
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3. Education is concerned with the immediate application of knowledge.
a.
True
b.
False
False
Easy
15.2 – Explain how leaders develop through education, experience, and mentoring.
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True
Easy
15.1 – Explain how leaders develop through self-awareness and self-discipline.
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4. A corporate environment characterized by survival of the fittest tends to best contribute toward leadership development.
a.
True
b.
False
False
Easy
5. Leadership development can take place by using one’s immediate superior as a positive or negative model of effective
leadership.
a.
True
b.
False
True
Easy
6. Assigning managers to cross-functional teams to work on other disciplines has become a useful form of leadership
development.
a.
True
b.
False
True
Easy
7. Success is a special type of challenging experience that contributes enormously to reaching one’s leadership potential.
a.
True
b.
False
False
Easy
8. A person’s mentor can sometimes be a staff professional or a coworker.
a.
True
b.
False
True
Easy
9. A typical approach to online mentoring is to access a company’s database that describes the problems, weaknesses, and
performance evaluations of the company’s mentors.
a.
True
b.
False
False
10. Shadowing is directly observing the work activities of the mentor by following the person around for a stated period of
time.
a.
True
b.
False
True
Easy
11. One of the forces in the outside world compelling companies to develop leaders is the world economy’s shift from
dependency on financial capital to human capital.
a.
True
b.
False
True
Easy
12. In a typical simulation, participants observe a model of appropriate behavior and then imitate the behavior and gather
feedback.
Easy
a.
True
b.
False
13. A feedback-intensive program of leadership development helps participants identify the reasons for their behaviors.
a.
True
b.
False
True
Easy
14. Conceptual knowledge is very important because it alerts the leader to information that will make a difference in
leadership.
a.
True
b.
False
True
Easy
False
Easy
15. Leaders who score high on the personality dimension of emotional stability might become more effective in their
interpersonal relationships with the benefit of psychotherapy.
a.
True
b.
False
16. Succession planning is vital to the long-term health of an organization and therefore an important responsibility of
senior leadership.
a.
True
b.
False
True
Easy
17. The emotional aspects of leadership succession are ignored when a business founder is replaced by another leader.
a.
True
b.
False
False
Easy
False
Easy
18. According to two specialists in leadership assessment, many big mistakes in careers and organizations result from
_____.
a.
gaps in self-awareness
b.
excessive self-discipline
c.
lack of education
d.
lack of relevant experience
and Self-Discipline.”
15.1 – Explain how leaders develop through self-awareness and self-discipline.
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19. After receiving negative feedback about her company, the CEO showed double-loop learning by saying, _____
a.
“Maybe we are not in the right business.”
b.
“You cannot please everybody.”
c.
“I must tell the customer service department about this problem.”
d.
“This feedback is so important, it’s worth hearing twice.”
15.1 – Explain how leaders develop through self-awareness and self-discipline.
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20. One of the key dimensions of leadership, which a leader should take a stand on, is forceful leadership and _____
leadership.
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a.
assertive
b.
operational
c.
strategy
d.
enabling
21. Based on the four kinds of lopsided leaders, a heroic leader would be _____.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Easy
15.1 – Explain how leaders develop through self-awareness and self-discipline.
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22. Self-discipline plays an important role in leadership development because _____.
a.
most leaders have a tendency to be undisciplined
b.
it involves many apects of personal development
c.
most leaders have the need to punish themselves from time to time
d.
most forms of leadership development require double-loop learning
Easy
15.1 – Explain how leaders develop through self-awareness and self-discipline.
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15.1 – Explain how leaders develop through self-awareness and self-discipline.
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23. According to Richard Branson, a top executive at Virgin Atlantic, a special type of challenging experience that
contributes enormously to reaching one’s leadership potential is _____.
a.
partaking in social causes
b.
victory
c.
failure
d.
taking calculated risks
c
Mentoring.”
Moderate
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24. An important way for leaders to capitalize on challenging experiences is for them to be given _____.
a.
leeway in choosing how to resolve the problem
b.
careful guidance in how to resolve the problem
c.
the opportunity to delegate the problem to someone else
d.
a policy and procedure manual for resolving the problem
a
Education, Experience, and Mentoring.”
Easy
15.2 – Explain how leaders develop through education, experience, and mentoring.
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25. Extremely challenging experiences are sometimes referred to as _____.
a.
crucibles
b.
risks
c.
successes
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d.
learning curves
26. A major purpose of assigning managers to cross-functional teams to work is to _____.
a.
broaden their job roles and prepare them for bigger tasks
b.
keep them thinking in terms of functional silos
c.
inculcate the quality of humility in them
d.
give them experience in working with other disciplines
Education, Experience, and Mentoring.”
15.2 – Explain how leaders develop through education, experience, and mentoring.
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27. A distinguishing characteristic of a mentoring relationship is that _____.
a.
the mentor recommends the protégé for promotion
b.
an emotional tie exists between the mentor and the protégé
c.
the protégé can avoid training if he or she is being mentored
d.
the protégé gets groomed to replace the mentor
15.2 – Explain how leaders develop through education, experience, and mentoring.
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Through Education, Experience, and Mentoring.”
15.2 – Explain how leaders develop through education, experience, and mentoring.
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28. In the shadowing approach to mentoring, the protégé _____.
a.
follows the mentor around for a stated period of time
b.
stays out of the spotlight so he or she can learn
c.
keeps others in the dark about his or her developmental opportunities
d.
alternates between two or three mentors for a defined time period
Through Education, Experience, and Mentoring.”
15.2 – Explain how leaders develop through education, experience, and mentoring.
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29. Online mentoring works by essentially _____.
a.
having frequent face-to-face contact between mentors and mentored employees
b.
holding video conferences with potential mentors
c.
using search engines to find mentors in other companies
d.
matching mentors and mentored employees via websites
15.2 – Explain how leaders develop through education, experience, and mentoring.
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30. A feedback-intensive management development program _____.
a.
is free of cost to almost all participants of the program
b.
focuses on learning how to apply knowledge
c.
provides program participants with the right amount of challenge
d.
helps leaders find more constructive ways of achieving their goals
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31. A key element of behavioral role modeling is _____.
a.
reading about the accomplishments of great leaders
b.
participating in simulations of company problems
c.
essaying behaviors that a learner has observed
d.
showing behavioral characteristics of an underdog in a particular situation
c
Easy
15.3 – Summarize the nature of leadership development programs.
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32. _____ are used to give managers the opportunity to work on problems that approximate those faced by the company.
a.
Simulations
b.
Crucibles
c.
Feedback intensive programs
d.
Skill-based programs
a
Programs.”
Easy
15.3 – Summarize the nature of leadership development programs.
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15.3 – Summarize the nature of leadership development programs.
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33. Which of the following is an advantage of coaching?
a.
It alerts the leader to information that will make a difference in leadership.
b.
It helps in acclimatizing to the company and accepting its vision and values.
c.
It helps leaders overcome emotional problems hindering their leadership effectiveness.
d.
It helps a person improve in an area that is preventing him or her from becoming a leader.
blocking further progress as a leader. See “Leadership Development Programs.”
15.3 – Summarize the nature of leadership development programs.
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34. Which of the following is a major aim of socializing programs?
a.
It helps employees understand and accept the company’s vision and values.
b.
It gives participants the opportunity to work on a problem that simulates a real organization.
c.
It alerts the leader to information that will make a difference in leadership.
d.
It enables improvement in an area that is blocking one’s progress as a leader.
15.3 – Summarize the nature of leadership development programs.
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35. A directly practical approach to leadership development, where leaders and potential leaders work together in groups
to solve organizational problems outside their usual sphere of influence is called a(n) _____.
a.
feedback-intensive program
b.
evaluation program
c.
socialization program
d.
action learning program
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