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Leadership 101 Practice Test: Leading Change
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Leadership 101 Practice Test: Leading Change
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1. Practices of exemplary leadership include:
2. When facing unplanned and revolutionary change, and leadership may become more central.
3. All of the following are general causes that explain resistance to change except:
4. The text identifies all of the following except as potential solutions to overcome resistance to change.
5. The process of planned change includes steps.
6. Jeff Immelt, CEO at General Electric, changed the culture of the organization by teaching employees team skills and evaluating on those skills. Those who showed the best potential and performance were promoted to lead others. This process is best represented by which of Kouzes and Posner
7. describes the process where leaders focus employees
8. is change that occurs when leaders or followers make a conscious effort to changes in response to a specific pressure or problem.
9. The major contribution of change-oriented and visionary leadership approaches is:
10. Chantelle helped guide her organization through the process by creating regular meetings with employees to discuss progress of the change initiatives and to reflect upon challenges and obstacles in an effort to adapt more effectively to the change effort. This best illustrates which characteristic of Lewin
11. is change that occurs randomly and suddenly without the specific intention of addressing a problem.
12. Leaders can manage unplanned change by taking all of the following steps except .
13. Researchers Kouzes and Posner propose that in order to truly motivate followers, leaders must do all but one of the following:
14. Amy has just finished reading Kouzes and Posner
15. requires individuals to consider a problem by taking different positions and perspectives.
16. Which is not an individual factor causing resistance to change?
17. Ford has a rigid hierarchical pecking order that discourages sharing ideas and well-established leadership-training practices. Which cause of organizational resistance to change does this illustrate?
18. Kurt Lewin
19. Preparing people in understanding the need for change describes the stage of Kurt Lewin
20. is change that is rapid and dramatic.
21. According to John Kotter, leaders involved in organizational change must:
22. Director Mueller of the FBI shifted budgetary funds from fighting crime to counter-intelligence in order to support the new direction. This example best illustrates which step in the planned change process?
23. The FBI faces a gap between actual and desired performance. This is an example of force for change.
24. is the ability to link or combine ideas in novel ways
25. Organizations that rely too heavily on people with highly developed but narrow expertise who are celebrated and expected to provide answers experience: