Deck 12: Leadership Development at Individual and Organizational Levels

Question 1

Leadership development should begin with developing oneself.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The methods for development of leadership include self-study, interviews, and skinless techniques.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Majoring in literature for the study of the classics is the best way to achieve the training needed for career mobility.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Supervisory skills training focuses on interpersonal skills for motivating followers, whereas management development focuses on more complex interpersonal skills for achieving organizational results.

Question 5

Tuition reimbursement by employers is uncommon because it has been found to be a waste of investment by the organization.

Question 6

It is possible to explore what competencies disappear as senior leaders in particular organizations retire, along with implications for leadership development activities.

Question 7

With empathy toward others combined with self-knowledge, one is on the way to emotional intelligence.

Question 8

Typical programs for first-line supervisors focus on media and public relations and strategic planning.

Question 9

Because systematic processes are good for identifying future leaders, managers should identify the people who are described as "good in their current job" because they are the very best candidates to develop for succession planning.

Question 10

The key aspect of development, self-assessment, is defined as the leader thinking about how to improve.

Question 11

Vertical leadership teams take more sociotechnical design than do self-managed teams.

Question 12

As group size increases in a self-managed team, pressure to formalize roles increases.

Question 13

Integrative leadership is the ability to take a big-picture look at the organizational environment and to separate out the components that need to be addressed for sustainability.

Question 14

All members of self-directed teams need to participate as leaders.

Question 15

A self-directed team is both cross-function and fully empowered for a particular result.

Question 16

The activity that enhances the abilities, attitudes, and quality of leadership is called:

A) leadership learning
B) leadership progress
C) leadership improvement
D) leadership development

Question 17

British Petroleum's (BP's) formal training program for supervisors, called "first-level leaders," was:

A) thin-client metaframe technology
B) deemed unsuccessful
C) conducted using a face-to-face setting
D) accountable for BP's ultimate downfall in environmental, safety, and political controversies, including the Houston deepwater oil spill

Question 18

Which of the following describes the Pygmalion effect?

A) Trainees have genetic predispositions for success or failure
B) It is a technique to enhance ability through psychological means
C) High expectations for employees invariably lead to supervisorial disappointment in performance
D) It is a myth

Question 19

Which of the following is related to the five methods for development through structured experience?

A) group learning exercises
B) mirrored salary increases
C) class-based training programs
D) coaching and mentoring

Question 20

The most commonly used developmental technique at all levels is:

A) disciplining
B) coaching
C) self-teaching by reading
D) informal ad hoc feedback pertaining to return on investment

Question 21

Which of the following is an accurate statement regarding mentoring?

A) It focuses on the big picture
B) It focuses on specific learning goals
C) It is a protégé relationship between two people assigned to work together, with one serving as supervisor
D) It focuses on emerging leaders fixing a technical problem

Question 22

One of the major components of a leadership development program is:

A) accumulative leadership
B) nonintegrative leadership
C) parallel leadership
D) distributed or shared leadership

Question 23

Self-directed teams have been used in Europe since the 1950s, but generally the method did not migrate to the United States until:

A) the 1960s
B) the 1980s
C) the 2000s
D) the 2010s

Question 24

Which of the following describes self-managed team theory?

A) It distributes the standard functions of leadership among the group, allowing assignment of leadership functions based on talent
B) It describes the type of team leadership of this decade
C) All members need to participate as leaders, particularly when there is confusion about the goal
D) It refers to a natural work group with an appointed leader

Question 25

Peter Drucker opines that the "only way" for leaders to discover their strengths is to utilize:

A) leadership traits
B) a psychological approach
C) feedback analysis
D) punishment and reward mechanisms

Question 26

Interpersonal competencies that inspire others to be effective are known as the concept of:

A) behavioral intelligence
B) social intelligence
C) personality IQ
D) emotional intelligence

Question 27

Henry Fayol, writing on the functions of management in the late nineteenth century, was concerned with the:

A) need of achievement
B) right method of leader assessment
C) stability of tenure of personnel
D) impact of cutback management

Question 28

Which of the following prevents a leadership crisis relative to the baby boom generation in today's workforce?

A) coaching
B) partnering
C) restructuring
D) succession planning

Question 29

Leadership development:

A) includes structured experiences such as job rotation,
Mentoring, and specialized developmental assignments
B) includes self-evaluation methods such as succession planning and informal integration
C) utilizes one method of organizational intelligence as always the best
D) is the same concept as a self-directed unilateral team

Question 30

Which of the following is one type of condition described by Katzenbach and Smith (1993) that must exist for self-managed teams to perform well?

A) nonmutual accountability
B) common purpose
C) general skills
D) high number of team members

Question 31

What elements are particularly important in enhancing structured experience as a developmental tool?

Question 32

Describe a succession management program and explain its purpose.

Question 33

Follow the instructions of the second classroom activity by completing the leadership assessment in the appendix to Chapter 12. What areas do you assess as your best? Which are your weakest areas? What might you do to strengthen your weak areas?

Question 34

What is an individual learning plan?