Deck 8: Vision-Oriented Leadership Behaviors

Question 1

Our text claims that a leader is more akin to an orchestra leader than to John Wayne as an icon of action.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

To gain a broad understanding of the business context for leadership, the point made in the text is that an individual must read twenty-four business-related books per year.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Comparing transformational and incremental change, only transformational change can be strategically oriented for long-term success of the organization.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The Chief Euphoria Officer of Ben and Jerry's wrote an annual report on social and environmental performance to help keep on track as a values-led business.

Question 5

Competencies at the level of the organizational domain are grouped into one of two sections-the task or people domain.

Question 6

Scanning the environment is an important competency of vision-oriented leadership behavior.

Question 7

With environmental scanning, a leader who sees a phenomenon such as growing inventories can take corrective action such as postponing nonessential expenses.

Question 8

A strategic plan must be considered static for the designated period of four or five years even when there are changes shown in a formal SWOT analysis.

Question 9

A single reliable source is recommended when scanning the environment because it is likely that multiple sources would disagree with each other.

Question 10

Good supervisors cannot engage in operations and personnel planning without ever being involved in strategic planning.

Question 11

A performance indicator is a technique to link strategy with funding.

Question 12

Typically the organization's regular review of its mission and vision is routine, without calling for major change.

Question 13

A major problem with organizational vision is that it cannot provide a sense of focus when environmental change occurs.

Question 14

Organizational mission should be attainable and grounded in the present.

Question 15

Because values describe the norms for beliefs of an organization, they are thought to be the most important aspect of organizational culture.

Question 16

Western culture tends to focus on:

A) reflection
B) harmony
C) action
D) contemplation

Question 17

One way for employees to learn how to master the competencies involved in organization-level leadership is by:

A) volunteering at nonprofit organizations
B) becoming an industrial organization psychology major
C) attending seminars for professional development
D) finding executive role models

Question 18

According to UPS vice president Noel Massie, the key to achieving the ability to remain in touch with ideas for crafting a better future is:

A) vision
B) constant learning
C) management by objective
D) mission

Question 19

Vision-oriented behaviors:

A) are more micro- than macro-oriented
B) emphasize scanning the environment and planning strategically
C) help leaders to manage people
D) cause the organization to face its problems head-on in order to make employees happy

Question 20

Scanning the environment, the initial competency of vision-oriented leadership behavior, is similar to:

A) monitoring and evaluating internal relationships
B) strategic planning and data-gathering on a short-term basis
C) monitoring and consulting outside of the organization
D) conducting surveys and evaluating data

Question 21

Strategic planning:

A) emphasizes the development of people
B) has the purpose of refining operations
C) ends with definition of mission
D) emphasizes internal "fit" with the environment

Question 22

The logical incrementalism approach suggests that:

A) the strategic planning process is best achieved at an intensive retreat that includes all levels of management
B) the strategic planning process is linear
C) only the broadest mission and objectives are set by executives; divisions and units are encouraged to behave as relatively independent strategic business units
D) this process best serves all types of organizations

Question 23

Select the false statement regarding mission articulation:

A) It can occur outside the strategic planning process
B) It is related to strategic planning
C) It has only explicit aspects
D) It serves nonstrategic purpose

Question 24

Mission statements have the same connotations as:

A) organizational purpose relative to the type of activities to be performed for customers
B) the aspirations of the organization
C) the organization's goals
D) the special competencies in which the organization is expected to excel

Question 25

Developing working relationships that are voluntary but substantive outside the organization is known as the act of:

A) networking
B) partnering
C) collaborating
D) cooperating

Question 26

A higher level of partnering that generally requires a substantial degree of reciprocal influence is called:

A) alliance
B) coalition
C) cooptation
D) confederation

Question 27

Performing general management functions is most closely related to:

A) general planning and accounting
B) operations and fiscal investment for high returns
C) structuring the organization and staffing the positions created
D) operations and strategic planning

Question 28

According to Rosenbloom (1998), one of the common problems that occur in decision-making is:

A) underappreciation of personnel factors
B) excessive use of emotional appeals
C) involving too many people in the process
D) lack of clear goals

Question 29

The model of decision-making that describes pragmatically how we "muddle through" decisions as we adjust over time to changing factors around us is called:

A) the reasoned-choice model
B) the incremental model
C) the mixed scanning model
D) the environmental scan model

Question 30

Culture changes may lead to dramatic differences when successfully implemented. One classic example of an organization implementing this type of organizational change in order to survive in the early 1990s was:

A) IBM
B) Xerox
C) UPS
D) McDonald's

Question 31

What are the different frameworks used in decision-making? When are these frameworks most commonly used?

Question 32

Managing successful organizational change is generally considered the most difficult of all competencies. Why? What competencies does it build upon and how?

Question 33

With the case of the huge Toyota recall of 2010, it was stated that the observer could witness the importance of rules in decision-making. Explain.

Question 34

Describe the importance of networking and partnering outside the business for creating vision.

Question 35

Argue in favor of the position that general management functions are necessary for leadership.