Exam 10: Developing Leaders

The most effective development methods that are used extensively in the United States rely on intensive feedback and developmental relationships.

Leader development programs can forego several criteria for effective training and still likely achieve long-term benefits.

Assessment data can increase individual awareness.

Traditional intelligence refers to social and interpersonal skills.

Assessment for feedback intensive programs includes a combination of interviews,aptitude tests,and personality tests,but does not include role plays,simulations or experiential exercises.

Within the United States,leader development tends to focus on conceptual and holistic understanding as well as theoretical development.

Sally,vice president of human resources,wants to create a development program that will have the greatest likelihood for success in developing necessary knowledge,skills,and abilities among the organization's newly hired managers.If she selected one type of method for leader development that meets the most criteria for these effective programs,which should she select?

Women tend to outperform male counterparts on the results of 360-degree feedback.

The component of the U.S.Army model of leadership development that focuses on knowledge and skills in specific content areas such as technical and interpersonal skills is know as:

Managerial and supervisory development primarily focuses on:

All of the following elements make up the core of learning except:

Participants of leader development programs must be aware of the need for change and specific areas they should address so they are ready to change.

Learning addresses the process whereas development focuses on the content of the change.

In 2009, large U.S.companies spent over________ on employee learning development.

According to 2009 study,______ percent of U.S.corporations offered tuition assistance programs.

Leader development may be either generic or customized.

If self-awareness is the cornerstone of development,then experience,or developmental experience,is its core.

________ refers to the component of the U.S.Army's leadership development model that focuses on self-awareness through clarification of core values such as loyalty,duty,respect,and personal courage.

Coaching programs are most often used in:

After several years of making service calls,Joydeep's performance consistently has been below average.He is not responsive to customers' needs.Comments from customers indicate Joydeep is uninterested in his work.Sundar,Joydeep's supervisor,approaches him to participate in a newly created leader development program offered by the organization.Joydeep is not enthusiastic about participating in the program.Which aspect of the core of learning best describes Joydeep?