Chapter 02 Leader Development Answer Key
True / False Questions
1.
(p. 45)
According to the A-O-R model, leadership development is enhanced when the
consequence and significance of an action is considered.
2.
(p. 45)
The most productive way to develop as a leader is to travel along the spiral of experience.
3.
(p. 47)
Experience is just a matter of what events happen to you.
4.
(p. 47–
Studies indicate that everyone attends to all aspects of a situation equally and that
perception is basically a passive activity.
Type: Knowledge
5.
(p. 49)
Type: Vocabulary
A situation in which one’s expectations help determine the predicted outcome is an
“attribution.”
6.
(p. 50)
Type: Vocabulary
The tendency to overestimate the dispositional factors and underestimate the
environmental factors in someone else’s failure is a fundamental attribution error.
7.
(p. 54)
Type: Knowledge
Single-loop learning refers to a self-fulfilling belief system, which is generally not open to
feedback.
8.
(p. 54)
Type: Knowledge
Double-loop learning is the process of learning something that one already predicted, as in
the “self-fulfilling prophecy.”
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9.
(p. 55)
Studies show that after event reviews (AERs), which involve reflecting on personal
leadership experiences, fail to improve leadership effectiveness.
10.
(p. 57)
The times when people most need to break out of the mold created by past learning
patterns tend to be the times when they are most unwilling to do so.
11.
Role-playing activities are used extensively during informal coaching sessions.
12.
(p. 61)
A participant in an in-basket exercise has a limited amount of time to prioritize and
respond to e-mails and phone messages from an actual manager’s in-box.
13.
(p. 64)
Technology-based approaches to leader development, such as video games and
simulations, encourage participants to take risks and think quickly.
14.
(p. 65)
A drawback to action learning is that it requires spending time away from one’s immediate
job responsibilities.
15.
(p. 66)
Insight on a leader’s strengths and development needs can be gathered through 360-
degree feedback.
16.
(p. 68)
Leaders and followers use development plans as road maps for changing their own
behaviors.
17.
(p. 69)
Leadership practitioners have a tendency to concentrate on coaching their top followers
and overlooking low-performing followers.
18.
(p. 70–
71)
Although formal coaching programs are considered effective tools for developing leaders,
less than half of the Global 1,000 companies use formal coaching because of high
investment costs and extensive time constraints.
19.
(p. 72)
Effective coaches require coachees to practice targeted behaviors through role-play
activities and later in real-world situations.
20.
(p. 72)
Mentoring and coaching are essentially the same types of programs.
Multiple Choice Questions
21.
(p. 45)
Leadership development is enhanced when experience involves the three processes of:
22.
(p. 48)
Which statement about perceptual sets is most likely FALSE?
23.
(p. 49)
In perception, which term refers to the process of assigning underlying causes to
behaviors?
24.
(p. 50)
Crediting your own successes to dispositional factors and others’ successes to factors in
the environment are aspects of:
25.
(p. 50)
People who are observing an action are much more likely than the actor to make the
fundamental attribution error. This is called:
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26.
(p. 52)
Which statement about the reflection component of the A-O-R model is most likely
FALSE?
27.
(p. 53)
A situation in which one’s expectations or predictions help determine the very results
predicted is referred to as:
28.
(p. 54)
Which term refers to a kind of learning between the individual and the environment in
which learners seek relatively little feedback that may significantly confront their
fundamental ideas or actions?
29.
(p. 54)
Which of the following involves confronting your beliefs, inviting others to challenge you,
and working on personal blind spots?
30.
(p. 56)
What is a frequent lesson learned by both men and women from their career experiences?
31.
(p. 58)
Leadership studies programs at the university-level:
32.
(p. 60)
_____ describe leadership situations and are used as vehicles for leadership discussions.
33.
(p. 60)
What is most likely an advantage of role playing in leadership development programs?
34.
(p. 61)
Leadership training programs for mid-level managers are LEAST likely to focus on
improving _____ skills.
35.
(p. 61)
Which of the following involves participants being given a limited amount of time to
prioritize and respond to a number of notes, phone messages, and letters?
36.
(p. 61)
In leaderless group discussions, facilitators and observers rate participants and provide
feedback about _____ skills.