Exam 7: Leading Change

Particularly in situations of strategic renewal and change, formal leaders need to learn about how their effects are proceeding through a process of mutual engagement with employees at all organizational levels.

Moving from individual to shared leadership is desirable, and is:

To transform an organization from a collection of individuals into a coordinated, interdependent unit requires _________that transcends instrumentality.

Formal leaders may exert a powerful influence over followers without exercising effective leadership.

The flow of information from lower to higher hierarchical levels is called:

Which of the following actions does NOT help create a shared purpose?

Which of the following best describe how leaders enhance the effectiveness of change implementation:

Dominant individual leaders can create an internal dynamic that builds ,_________ while______ initiative, innovation, and teamwork.

In leadership development, recruiting candidates with outstanding technical skills:

If employees are committed to their organization, emotionally they are less likely to engage in required behavioral changes because they are happy with the status quo.

Selecting an individual for a leadership position who has always worked in one functional area has which of the following downsides:

Stretch goals are designed to urge workers to go beyond their normal job descriptions and expand their areas of expertise, even if short-term performance is sacrificed.

Given a combination of experience, training, and circumstances, a wide array of individuals can be effective leaders.

Effective leaders need to take specific steps to ensure that communications move both upward and downward, and is best they simply response to all questions, fully and completely.

Organizational purpose is:

Which of the following is NOT a core task of change leadership:

___________are clearly articulated and challenging performance expectations.

Cisco CEO, John Chambers was NOT committed to building collaboration as a way of keeping his company agile and responsive to a rapidly shifting competitive and technological environment. This explains why their change initiative was unsuccessful.

With narrowly focused functional managers rather than broadly based leaders, organizations become:

Leaders should work through coalitions and leverage their hierarchical authority.