In the informal coaching process, a leader is most likely to help a follower to grow skills by:
Creating a coaching plan.
Which statement about perceptual sets is most likely FALSE?
Perceptual sets are the tendency to perceive everything.
Which statement about the reflection component of the A-O-R model is most likely FALSE?
The importance of reflection in leadership development is rarely addressed by scholars.
Leadership training programs for mid-level managers are LEAST likely to focus on improving _____ skills.
strategic planning
People who are observing an action are much more likely than the actor to make the fundamental attribution error. This is called:
actor/observer difference.
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?
Single-loop learning
Leadership development is enhanced when experience involves the three processes of:
action, observation, and reflection.
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?
In-basket exercises
In the informal coaching process, a leader is most likely to inspire commitment from a follower by _____.
reviewing performance appraisals
What is most likely an advantage of role playing in leadership development programs?
Provides greater transferability to the workplace
In perception, which term refers to the process of assigning underlying causes to behaviors?
Attribution
_____ describe leadership situations and are used as vehicles for leadership discussions.
Case studies
What is a frequent lesson learned by both men and women from their career experiences?
Handling political situations
Which statement about action learning is most likely FALSE?
Action learning involves attending classes, watching videotapes, and working in teams to create development plans for the firm.
A situation in which one's expectations or predictions help determine the very results predicted is referred to as:
self-fulfilling prophecy.
Which of the following involves confronting your beliefs, inviting others to challenge you, and working on personal blind spots?
Double-loop learning
Crediting your own successes to dispositional factors and others' successes to factors in the environment are aspects of:
fundamental attribution error.
In leaderless group discussions, facilitators and observers rate participants and provide feedback about _____ skills.
interpersonal
Leadership studies programs at the university-level:
are increasingly popular at many liberal-arts institutions.
The process by which an older and more experienced person helps to socialize and encourage younger organizational colleagues is called:
mentoring.