Deck 1: An Intoduction to Self-Leadership: the Journey Begins

Question 1

Which of the following are areas that leadership can originate from?

A)External leadership and coworkers
B)Yourself,external leadership,and the group
C)The goup
D)Yourself and coworkers

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Leadership takes place in which of the following situations?

A)Isolated events
B)Process involving many parts
C)Isolated events and a process
D)Isolated events,a process,and a cycle

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which of the following represents a situation in which we influence our own behavior?

A)Low and high control situations
B)Moderate control situations
C)High control situations
D)Low,medium,and high control situations

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Leadership has been conceived in which of the following manners?

A)A personality concept
B)A form of persuasion
C)An instrument of goal achievement
D)All of the above

Question 5

If individuals are determining the standards and objectives using self-leadership strategies,they are engaging in which of the following ?

A)The what we need to do
B)The why we need to do
C)The how we need to do
D)The what and why we need to do

Question 6

Which of the following forms of leadership can exert influence over an individual's behavior?

A)Externally oriented
B)Participative
C)Self-leadership
D)All of the above

Question 7

If individuals are engaging in strategic analysis and strategic implementation parts of self-leadership,they are engaging in what parts of self-leadership?

A)The what
B)The what and how
C)The how and why
D)The why and how

Question 8

The most commonly recognized source of leadership involves influence that leaders exercise over their followers is representative of which form of leadership?

A)Externally oriented
B)Participative
C)Self-leadership
D)Shared leadership

Question 9

The vast majority of leadership research has been isolated on:

A)self-leadership and external leadership
B)external leadership
C)participative leadership and external leadership
D)self-leadership,participative leadership,and external leadership

Question 10

Due to a dysfunctional self-leadership process,which of the following can happen?

A)Wrong line of work and the right job
B)Wrong job
C)Discontentment with life,wrong line of work,and wrong job
D)Right line of work,right job,and discontentment with work

Question 11

When engaging in self-leadership stratgies,there is a process of self-influence strategies that include which of the following?

A)Behavioral strategies
B)Cognitive strategies
C)Behavioral and cognitive strategies
D)Personality strategies

Question 12

Which of the following is NOT an example of participative leadership?

A)A manager and subordinate reaching a shared expectation for sales increase in the next quarter
B)A manager telling a subordinate the expectations for sales increases in the next quarter
C)A manager and subordinate reaching an expectation of a reward for completing a certain task
D)A manager and subordinate discussing how to improve the sales in the next quarter

Question 13

Which of the following can influence self-leadership?

A)Type of outcome
B)Culture
C)Country
D)All of the above

Question 14

All of the following are key components of the most useful definitions of leadership except:

A)process of influence
B)directing behavior
C)involving others
D)towards accomplishing goals

Question 15

All of the following are ways in which you lead yourself,even in highly controlled situations except for which if the following?

A)Choosing order in which tasks are completed
B)Choosing to set a higher personal goal than what boss expects
C)Having boss set the order of tasks
D)Be tough on self for smallest mistakes

Question 16

Self-leadership involves strategies that help individuals understand:

A)what and why we need to do certain activities
B)what,why,and how we need to do certain activities
C)why and how we need to do certain activities
D)what and how we need to do certain activities

Question 17

Which of the following is an example of self-leadership?

A)Working with a boss to set goals
B)Setting self-goals to accomplish
C)The boss setting goals
D)The boss consulting you before setting goals

Question 18

Which of the following is not an example of external leadership?

A)A manager setting the goals for the next quarter
B)A manager working with an employee to set goals for the next quarter
C)A manager setting the time periods for which work will be done
D)A manager setting the work schedule

Question 19

Which of the following are ways that individuals can effectively lead themselves?

A)Focus on positives in work
B)Be discontent
C)Give up self-leadership potential to others
D)Not focusing on what drives their happiness

Question 20

Having control over your own lives,including where we work and whom we work for can be known as?

A)Making our own lunch
B)Picking our path
C)Deciding our future
D)Choosing our destiny

Question 21

Who is ultimately your leader?

A)Yourself
B)Your boss
C)Your coworkers
D)The world

Question 22

Which of the following are results from not engaging in effective self-leadership processes and not making choices that are beneficial?

A)Unhappiness
B)Discontentment
C)Wrong work
D)All of the above

Question 23

Which of the following suggests that we influence our own behavior and as a result,choose who we become?

A)Self-leadership
B)Shared leadership
C)Participative leadership
D)External leadership

Question 24

Leadership consists of a process of influence for directing behavior towards accomplishing goals.

Question 25

Vicarious learning and symbolic mechanisms for learning and experiencing tasks and events is a key part of which theory?

A)Intrinsich motivation theory
B)Social role theory
C)Social cognitive theory
D)Goal setting theory

Question 26

What of the following is left up to us?

A)Where we work
B)Whom we work for and who are boss is
C)Who our boss is and where we work
D)Where we work and whom we work for

Question 27

recognizes the importance of natural rewards from doing activies that we enjoy.

A)Intrinisic motivation theory
B)Social cognitive theory
C)Social role theory
D)Social impact theory

Question 28

Most leadership literature focuses on influenced exercised by one or more persons over others.

Question 29

The importance on capacity of a person to manage or control oneself-particularly when faced with difficult,yet important tasks is a key component of what theory?

A)Social cognitive theory
B)Intrinsic motivation theory
C)Social impact theory
D)Social role theory

Question 30

Self-leadership is a comprehensive process of self-influence that only consists of behavioral strategies of influence.

Question 31

Discuss what is meant by "we all lead ourselves".Does this mean that all leaders effectively lead themselves? If not,what are some of the weaknesses in a self-leadership process that can occur.

Question 32

We do which of the following with what we are and what we become?

A)Choose
B)Decide
C)Do not choose
D)Do not decide

Question 33

The concept of self-leadership is primarily derived from research on social cognitive theory and intrinsic motivation theory.

Question 34

If an individual is collaborating with a manager on setting goals,expectations,and tasks,there is participative leadership occurring.

Question 35

We choose what we are and what we become through various self-influence processes.

Question 36

Which of the following theories have been primarily driving reserach in self-leadership?

A)Social cognitive theory and social role theory
B)Intrinsic motivation theory and social role theory
C)Social role theory
D)Social cognitive theory and intrinsic motivation theory

Question 37

recognizes the adoption and change of human behaviors as a complex process with many parts.

A)Intrinsic motivation theory
B)Social cognitive theory
C)Social impact theory
D)Social role theory

Question 38

Compare and contrast the following sources of leadership: external leadership,participative leadership,and self-leadership.

Question 39

Describe the basic tenets of social cognitive theory and intrinsic motivation theory-specifically focusing on the role that these theories have in laying a foundation for self-leadership.

Question 40

All influence that an individual experiences comes from influential external leaders.

Question 41

Discuss self-leadership by defining self-leadership and discussing the what,why,and how of self-leadership.

Question 42

Discuss the various different ways that leadership has been conceived in the literature.In addition,provide a general definition of leadership that encompasses what leadership is.