Leadership Chapter Fourteen and Fifteen
After receiving negative feedback about her company, the CEO showed double-loop learning by saying, _____
"Maybe we are not in the right business."
Which of the following is least likely to be a source of cultural misunderstanding?
Entertaining in restaurants
_____ leaders typically are emotionally involved in their firms and find it difficult to look on while somebody else operates the firm.
Entrepreneurial
Which of the following is not one of the three components of cultural intelligence?
Financial CQ
Which of the following is an advantage of coaching?
It helps a person improve in an area that is preventing him or her from becoming a leader.
A contextual chameleon is a global leader who:
adapts to unfamiliar roles and environments.
In contrast to his or her southern counterpart, the stereotypical northern U.S. manager is likely to be:
brusque and impatient for results.
In the shadowing approach to mentoring, the protégé _____.
follows the mentor around for a stated period of time
A major challenge in providing leadership to cross-cultural teams is that the team members may:
have different attitudes toward hierarchy and authority.
Online mentoring works by essentially _____.
matching mentors and mentored employees via websites
The purpose of psychotherapy in leadership development is to _____.
overcome emotional problems
A marketing advantage for a company having a multicultural work force is that:
programs can be readily developed to reach a targeted ethnic or racial group.
A major challenge in developing a diverse workforce is:
reducing turnover among the minority group members hired.
Major account executive Katrina is visiting another country, and soon discovers that her customers will not talk about business until the group has dined together for several hours. Katrina would show cultural sensitivity by:
trying to understand the dining tradition.
Which of the following is an example of an action learning program for leadership development?
Barry, a production manager, has been assigned a project from the corporate social responsibility division of his company.
Mauricia Corp., a biotechnology firm, has initiated a program that encourages employees to form groups on the basis of a particular characteristic such as race, sex, ethnicity, etc. Mauricia Corp's initiative is based on the belief that such programs would help team members to discover their true potential and climb up the corporate ladder. Which of the following is a likely disadvantage of such a set up?
It could lead to divisiveness.
Which of the following is a challenge of being a new leader?
Overcoming the need to be liked by everybody
Wyatt has an MBA degree from a reputed university in the U.K. He has been working with Linocco Inc. for over two years, and he expects to be promoted as branch manager shortly. Sunny took-up a diploma course in management after he passed out of high school. He was never really interested in increasing his qualifications, but he has also been working at Linocco Inc. for over five years. Sunny expects to become the branch manager as well. However, the organization decides to promote Wyatt and not Sunny. Which of the following could be a reason for Wyatt being promoted and not Sunny?
There is a positive relationship between the amount of formal education and the level of leadership position attained.
A market research works on a variety of projects sourced from across the country. It has a deliberate policy of employing research team members from a variety of cultural minorities such as Asians, Africans, Hispanics, and Native Americans. This policy of the firm is likely to:
enhance team performance.
Alice works with Lee. She spends two days every month observing Lee's work activities, attending important meetings with him, and discussing important tactics. Lee conducts debriefing sessions with Alice where they discuss what she has learned and why it is necessary to use certain tactics at certain times. In this case, Lee is mentoring Alice using the approach known as _____.
shadowing
