Leadership Chapter 13,14,15

A major leadership initiative for enhancing a learning organization is to:

Create a strategic intent to learn

One of the major challenges faced by a new leader is

Deciding how much time to spend leading, versus doing individual tasks

A market research works on a variety of projects sourced from across the country. It has 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

Benjamin Corp, a farmer-owned dairy cooperative company, procures milk from a number of farmers in the locality and distributes packaged products to retailers across the state. The cooperative company has been successful over the years due to its emphasis on values such as loyalty,pride,and cohesiveness. In which of the following dimensions is the company likely to score highest?

In-group collectivism

The recommended approach for strategy formulation by a leader is for him or her to:

Inspire a large number of people to help achieve organizational purposes.

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.

To motivate diverse people to actually buy products, a company's sales representative should be:

Multicultural

To motivate diverse people to actually buy products, a companys's sales representative should be:

Multicultural

It is recommended that global leaders must:

Recognize

A major challenge in developing a diverse workforce is

Reducing turnover among the minority group members hired

Developing a pool of leadership successors combines evaluating potential with giving high-potential candidates the:

Right type of developmental experiences

The internal weakness is a SWOT analysis include factors such as:

Risk of pursuing a particular course of action

According to research, two success factors for international management positions are:

Sensitivity to cultural differences and being culturally adventurous

After receiving negative feedback about her company, the CEO showed double-loop learning by saying,

" Maybe we are not in the right business"

A company with a strategy of high quality typically

?? It's NOT focuses on quality products for high-end consumers

Oscar an extrovert, enjoys meeting new people and traveling to remote areas. he quits his job as an investment banker to find a new exciting job that would also give him a high level of work satisfaction. Oscar has now got a job in a non-profit organization that requires him to travel to a number of underdeveloped countries and localities to provide his services. This given scenario is an example of:

A good person-organization fit

To attain the highest level of cultural intelligence, it is important that________

A person's head, body, and heart work together smoothly

Amber Corp. and Kyler Corp., two major technology firms, have decided to operate together in specific areas such as distribution and marketing for better utilization of the expertise available in both the firms. This can be referred to as:

A strategic alliance

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 an____

Action learning program

A contextual chameleon is a global leader who

Adapts to unfamiliar roles and environments

A distinguishing characteristic of a mentoring relationship is that

An emotional tie exists between the mentor and the protege

A major aspect of direction setting by the leader is to:

Anticipate and create a future for the firm

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 response

When faced with conflict, a Malaysian manager is likely to:

Be a diplomatic in finding a solution

In contrast to his or her southern counterpart, the stereotypical northern U.S manager is likely to be:

Brusque and impatient for results

Which of the following is a key characteristic of servant leadership?

Caring for people

___ leaders typically are emotionally involved in their firms and find it difficult to look on while somebody else operates the firm

Entrepreneurial

When the successor is an outsider, boards consistently use_______________ to locate one or several candidates.

Executive search firms

A study found that when executives on overseas assignments had low emotional intelligence, they often:

Failed in their assignments

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:

Failure

Being multilingual is more important than being multicultural in persuading a person from another culture to purchase your product or service

False

Which of the following is not one of the three components of cultural intelligence?

Financial CQ

A retailer targeting low income groups is an example of the ___________ strategy

Focus

According to two specialists in leadership assessment, many big mistakes in careers and organizations result from

Gaps in self-awareness

Nathan is the CEO of a large business firm whose sales are declining rapidly. A superior act of strategic leadership would be for him to:

Give the company a new strategic direction

A major purpose of assigning managers to cross-functional teams to work is to ___________

Give them experience in working with other disciplines

In the past several years, Dawson Inc, a consumer durables company, has been focusing only on a particular region due to its foretasted potential for the durables industry. Due to recessionary conditions in the region, the sales of Dawson's products has been hit hard and resulted in severe losses. Which of the following could prevent such a scenario?

Global diversification

A major challenge in providing leadership to cross-cultural teams is that the team members may:

Have different attitudes toward hierarchy and authority

A powerful strategy for gaining competitive advantage is to:

Hire talented, well-motivated people throughout the firm

Owen Corp, a company operating in the retail industry , has an implicit policy of recruiting candidates from the majority community. Its rival firm, which encourages job applications from diverse backgrounds, has been registering a higher profit consistently. In the context of the implicit recruitment policy at Owen Corp, which of the following is more likely to contribute to such a pattern in profitability?

It could have shrunk its supply of potential candidates

Mauricia Corp., a biotechnology firm, has initiated a program that encourages employees to form groups on the basis of 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 likely disadvantage of such a set up?

It could lead to divisiveness

Caiden Inc, a leader in the apparel industry, wants to infuse change and add variety to its existing collection. The Company makes extensive use of social media to receive feedback, suggestions, and ideas from existing and potential customers. This is an example of:

Knowledge creation

Which one of the following is NOT one of the three components of knowledge management?

Knowledge hoarding

Peter and his teammates engage in action learning when they

Learn while attacking a significant organizational problem

An important way for leaders to capitalize on challenging experiences is for them to be given____

Leeway in choosing how to resolve the problem

Executive coaching is beneficial because

Managers receive advice and encouragement about leadership skills

Mary, a line manager, is interested in pursuing self-help to develop leadership capabilities and interpersonal skills. Which of the following is a form of self-help that Mary could pursue?

Modeling the behavior of one of the effective leader's in her organization

The purpose of psychotherapy in leadership development is to

Overcome emotional problems

Workers with a high-power-distance value tend to accept the idea that:

People have unequal power throughout the firm.

Which of the following is a contributing factor to team learning?

Personal mastery of the job

William the CEO of a business empire which has its presence in eight different industries in twenty countries, possesses the expertise to persuade and convince people of other countries to accept his business ideas. William can be considered as a leader who:

Possesses global leadership skills

An organization is in the process of assessing a group of potential leaders based on their personality traits. A few of the group members did not fare well in the test. This displayed symptoms of emotional instability while role playing and when they were made to participate in simulations. Some of the behaviorism exhibited included belittling other employees, swearing, and unduly pressurizing subordinates. In order to help these employees display more appropriate behavior and deal better with emotional instability, the organization could use___?

Psychotherapy

The main reason companies evaluate their leadership developments programs is to____

See if they are cost effective

Succession planning is vital tot he long-term health of an organization and therefore an important responsibility of:

Senior leadership

George is the team leader for a group of six people. He has a habit of making impulsive decisions without consulting all his team members, and he tries to ignore any feedback or clues that might point against his actions. George is extremely defensive. In this case, George is an ____ learner

Single-loop

The purpose of a SWOT analysis is to assess:

Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats

Diversity is most likely to enhance business performance when:

The organization culture supports diversity

Which of the following is a major disadvantage of having an outsider hired for a leadership position?

The outsider does not understand the industry or how to bring about change in the company

A key characteristic of an organization with leadership diversity is that:

There is a heterogeneous group of leaders

Bases on the four kinds on lopsided leaders, a heroic leader would be?

Too forceful and strategic

A key characteristic of strategic thinking is that it involves high-level cognitive activity on the part of the leader:

True

A strong performance orientation is a strong cultural value, as indicated by a study of German middle managers

True

A vision should point to which activities an organization should take on and which activities it should avoid.

True

Conceptual knowledge is very important because it alerts the leader to information that will make a difference in leadership.

True

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 hour. Katrina would show cultural sensitivity by:

Trying to understand the dining tradition

In relation to an organization, systems thinking refers to:

Understanding how the organization interacts with the environment

The clearest commitment to valuing diversity occurs when:

Valuing diversity i incorporated into organizational strategy.