UNIT 2 KNOWLEDGE CHECK

Leadership development is enhanced when an experience involves three processes, which are

Action, observation, and reflection.

Which of the following is a conventional distinction between managers and leaders?

Managers maintain, while leaders develop.

Which of the following fundamental archetypes of leadership is most likely to take risks and action in a crisis?

The Warrior-Knight archetype

Identify a true statement about passive followers according to Robert Kelley's basic styles of followership.

They require constant direction because they lack initiative and a sense of responsibility.

Which of the following statements is true of women in leadership positions?

Women had significantly lower well-being scores than men.

According to Patricia O'Connell's webs of belief, which of the following web is the foundation for leaders to function in complex, uncertain, and changing environments where leadership solutions to challenges depend on mutual trust and respect among parties?

authenticity

Which of the following involves a willingness to confront your own views and an invitation to others to do so, too?

double-loop learning

According to Robert Kelley's basic styles of followership, who among the following presents a consistent picture to both leaders and coworkers of being independent, innovative, and willing to stand up to superiors?

exemplary followers

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 from a fictitious manager's in-basket?

in-basket exercises

Ideal followers are most likely to be described as

independent.

According to leadership researchers, leadership

is an interpersonal relation in which others comply because they want to.

A personal relationship in which a more experienced mentor (usually someone two to four levels higher in an organization) acts as a guide, role model, and sponsor of a less experienced protégé is known as

mentoring.

Unlike traditional training programs, action learning

often is conducted in teams of work colleagues who are addressing real company challenges.

Craig, a marketing manager at HeliZone Inc., rarely takes initiative or suggests new ideas during project meetings. He does his work halfheartedly and needs to be guided by his manager on a regular basis. According to Robert Kelley's basic styles of followership, Craig most likely is a(n)

passive follower

Jonathan, a front desk executive at Read Books Inc., handled 40 customer calls per day. He was then sent to a training program last month to improve his communication skills, which cost the organization $500. This month, Read Books observes that his growth is positive and substantial and that he is able to handle 60 customer calls per day. His productivity has increased by $700. This scenario most likely exemplifies

return on investment.

Which of the following terms describes a kind of learning between an individual and the environment in which learners seek relatively little feedback that may significantly confront their fundamental ideas or actions?

single-loop learning

The tendency to overestimate the dispositional causes of behavior and underestimate the environmental causes when others fail is called

the fundamental attribution error.

Which of the following is a phenomenon that refers to situations in which people feel themselves at risk of being judged by others holding negative images about them?

the stereotype threat

A key reason behind using the phrase "desirable opportunities" in a definition of leadership was precisely to distinguish between leadership and

tyranny.

Leadership is most associated with words like

vision.