WGU D016 LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONS AND ETHICS | 2026 UPDATE | QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION

D016 Leadership Foundations and
ethics

Transformational Leadership - ANS>>Intellectual stimulation is characterized by jj jj jj jj jj jj jj


enabling "followers to think of old problems in new ways"
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Laissez-faire - ANS>>A leader who allows staff to determine how they will achieve goals
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and perform job functions has which leadership style
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Situational Leadership - ANS>>The basic principle underlying situational leadership is
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that the leader adapts her leadership behavior to followers' "maturity," based on their
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willingness and ability to perform a specific task.
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autocratic leadership style - ANS>>centralizing authority, making decisions alone, and
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expecting followers or subordinates simply to follow instructions
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authoritative leadership style - ANS>>That gives direct, clear, details instructions as to
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what, when, and how work is to be done
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Discipline - ANS>>Protecting instructional time from interruptions
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Protecting teachers from internal and external distractions
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Intellectual Stimulation (Transformational Leadership) - ANS>>Intellectual stimulation is
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characterized by enabling "followers to think of old problems in new ways"
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Optimizer - ANS>>In solving a problem searches for optimal solution
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order leadership style - ANS>>
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formal network of communication - ANS>>If the principal holds a faculty meeting and
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shares information regarding the new reading program, the formal communication
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network is being used
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Informal network of communication - ANS>>informal network, often referred to as "the
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grapevine," does have some negative features, of which the most noted are distortion
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and rumors (unsubstantiated information).
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downward communication - ANS>>Information that flows from higher to lower levels in
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the organization's hierarchy.
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, upward communication - ANS>>Information that flows from lower to higher levels in the
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organization's hierarchy. perhaps the form of communication that is most prone to
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filtering
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horizantal communication - ANS>>When individuals communicate with other individuals
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of the same status in the organization, horizontal communication is occurring
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Vertical Communication - ANS>>The term vertical is not used here to refer to the
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direction of the communication; rather, it describes a pattern that focuses on combining
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upward and downward communication, making leaders more visible through face-to-
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diagonal communication - ANS>>Communication that cuts across vertical and horizontal
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channels.
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wheel network - ANS>>a communication network in which a gatekeeper regulates the
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flow of information from all other members
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cognitive dissonance theory - ANS>>the theory that we act to reduce the discomfort
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(dissonance) we feel when two of our thoughts (cognitions) are inconsistent. For
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example, when our awareness of our attitudes and of our actions clash, we can reduce
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the resulting dissonance by changing our attitudes
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Communication Accommodation Theory - ANS>>The view that individuals adjust their jj jj jj jj jj jj jj jj jj


verbal communication to facilitate understanding.
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Communication Accommodation Theory - ANS>>theory that all people adapt their jj jj jj jj jj jj jj jj jj


behavior to others to some extent
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Barriers that interfere with effective communication - ANS>>information overload, status
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difference, semantics, filtering, para-language, interpersonal relationships
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formal networks - ANS>>the transmission of messages established and approved by the
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organizational hierarchy
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informal networks - ANS>>communications that flow along social and relational lines
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downward communication - ANS>>communication that flows from higher to lower levels
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in an organization
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Chain Network Structure - ANS>>A communication network in which information is
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passed from member to member, from one end of the chain to the other
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connectors - ANS>>Connectors are individuals on the faculty who see possibility, know a
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large number of people from different sectors, and have mastered the skill of bringing
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them together.
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