LHRD 3723 WEEK 8 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
vision - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅In the context of leadership, a _____ is a mental model of an ideal future
state. It offers a picture of what could be.
Visions - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅_____ imply change and can challenge people to reach a higher
standard of excellence.
purpose - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅At the same time, a vision is like a guiding philosophy that provides
people with meaning and _____.
mission - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A _____ is how to get there. It is what people do in order to achieve
the vision.
long-term - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A leader's challenge is to develop a _____ vision that organizational
members can share, of the future they seek to create together.
entrenched mental models - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Peter Senge suggests that leaders sometimes carry
with them "_____" that limit their ability to see new possibilities in their environments. These could be
assumptions about the nature of people, organizational politics, attitudes toward risk-taking, or any
number of fixed ideas.
influences; react - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Although this picture of a possible future may not always be
crystal clear, the vision itself plays a major role in how the leader _____ others and how others _____ to
his or her leadership.
training; development - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Vision plays a prominent role in _____ and _____
literature.
begin with the end in mind - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Covey suggested that vision is one of seven habits
of highly effective people. He argued that effective people "_____"; that they have a deep
understanding of their goals, values, and mission in life; and that this understanding is the basis for
everything they do.
, exemplary - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Kouzes and Posner, whose Leadership Practices Inventory is a widely
used leadership assessment instrument, identified vision as one of the five practices of _____
leadership.
transformational leadership theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅In _____, vision is identified as one of the
four major factors that account for extraordinary leadership performance.
charismatic leadership theories; Charismatic - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅In _____, vision is highlighted as a
key to organizational change. _____ leaders create change by linking their vision and its values to the
self-concept of followers.
visionary leadership theories - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Some theories are actually titled _____ because
vision is their defining characteristic of leadership.
- a picture
- a change
- values
- a map
- a challenge - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Research on visionary leadership suggests that visions have five
characteristics:
picture; status quo - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A vision creates a _____ of a future that is better than the
_____. It is an idea about the future that requires an act of faith by followers.
common goal - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅As a rule, these mental images are of a time and place where
people are working productively to achieve a _____.
effectively - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Nevertheless, when a leader is able to paint a picture of the future
that is attractive and inspiring, it can have a significant impact on his or her ability to lead others _____.
I Have a Dream - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Martin Luther King Jr.'s "_____" speech, given during the March
on Washington in 1963, is the epitome of an ideal future worth striving for: "I have a dream that one day
vision - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅In the context of leadership, a _____ is a mental model of an ideal future
state. It offers a picture of what could be.
Visions - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅_____ imply change and can challenge people to reach a higher
standard of excellence.
purpose - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅At the same time, a vision is like a guiding philosophy that provides
people with meaning and _____.
mission - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A _____ is how to get there. It is what people do in order to achieve
the vision.
long-term - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A leader's challenge is to develop a _____ vision that organizational
members can share, of the future they seek to create together.
entrenched mental models - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Peter Senge suggests that leaders sometimes carry
with them "_____" that limit their ability to see new possibilities in their environments. These could be
assumptions about the nature of people, organizational politics, attitudes toward risk-taking, or any
number of fixed ideas.
influences; react - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Although this picture of a possible future may not always be
crystal clear, the vision itself plays a major role in how the leader _____ others and how others _____ to
his or her leadership.
training; development - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Vision plays a prominent role in _____ and _____
literature.
begin with the end in mind - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Covey suggested that vision is one of seven habits
of highly effective people. He argued that effective people "_____"; that they have a deep
understanding of their goals, values, and mission in life; and that this understanding is the basis for
everything they do.
, exemplary - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Kouzes and Posner, whose Leadership Practices Inventory is a widely
used leadership assessment instrument, identified vision as one of the five practices of _____
leadership.
transformational leadership theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅In _____, vision is identified as one of the
four major factors that account for extraordinary leadership performance.
charismatic leadership theories; Charismatic - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅In _____, vision is highlighted as a
key to organizational change. _____ leaders create change by linking their vision and its values to the
self-concept of followers.
visionary leadership theories - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Some theories are actually titled _____ because
vision is their defining characteristic of leadership.
- a picture
- a change
- values
- a map
- a challenge - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Research on visionary leadership suggests that visions have five
characteristics:
picture; status quo - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A vision creates a _____ of a future that is better than the
_____. It is an idea about the future that requires an act of faith by followers.
common goal - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅As a rule, these mental images are of a time and place where
people are working productively to achieve a _____.
effectively - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Nevertheless, when a leader is able to paint a picture of the future
that is attractive and inspiring, it can have a significant impact on his or her ability to lead others _____.
I Have a Dream - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Martin Luther King Jr.'s "_____" speech, given during the March
on Washington in 1963, is the epitome of an ideal future worth striving for: "I have a dream that one day
