D016 Leadership Foundations and ethics
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Transformational Leadership - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Intellectual stimulation is
characterized by enabling "followers to think of old problems in new ways"
Laissez-faire - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A leader who allows staff to determine how they
will achieve goals and perform job functions has which leadership style
Situational Leadership - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The basic principle underlying
situational leadership is that the leader adapts her leadership behavior to followers'
"maturity," based on their willingness and ability to perform a specific task.
autocratic leadership style - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅centralizing authority, making
decisions alone, and expecting followers or subordinates simply to follow instructions
authoritative leadership style - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅That gives direct, clear, details
instructions as to what, when, and how work is to be done
Discipline - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Protecting instructional time from interruptions
Protecting teachers from internal and external distractions
Intellectual Stimulation (Transformational Leadership) - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Intellectual stimulation is characterized by enabling "followers to think of
old problems in new ways"
Optimizer - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅In solving a problem searches for optimal solution
order leadership style - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅
, formal network of communication - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅If the principal holds a
faculty meeting and shares information regarding the new reading program, the formal
communication network is being used
Informal network of communication - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅informal network, often
referred to as "the grapevine," does have some negative features, of which the most noted are
distortion and rumors (unsubstantiated information).
downward communication - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Information that flows from higher
to lower levels in the organization's hierarchy.
upward communication - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Information that flows from lower to
higher levels in the organization's hierarchy. perhaps the form of communication that is most
prone to filtering
horizantal communication - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅When individuals communicate
with other individuals of the same status in the organization, horizontal communication is
occurring
Vertical Communication - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The term vertical is not used here to
refer to the direction of the communication; rather, it describes a pattern that focuses on
combining upward and downward communication, making leaders more visible through face-
to-face contact.
diagonal communication - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Communication that cuts across
vertical and horizontal channels.
wheel network - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅a communication network in which a
gatekeeper regulates the flow of information from all other members
cognitive dissonance theory - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅the theory that we act to reduce
the discomfort (dissonance) we feel when two of our thoughts (cognitions) are inconsistent.
For example, when our awareness of our attitudes and of our actions clash, we can reduce the
resulting dissonance by changing our attitudes
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Transformational Leadership - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Intellectual stimulation is
characterized by enabling "followers to think of old problems in new ways"
Laissez-faire - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A leader who allows staff to determine how they
will achieve goals and perform job functions has which leadership style
Situational Leadership - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The basic principle underlying
situational leadership is that the leader adapts her leadership behavior to followers'
"maturity," based on their willingness and ability to perform a specific task.
autocratic leadership style - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅centralizing authority, making
decisions alone, and expecting followers or subordinates simply to follow instructions
authoritative leadership style - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅That gives direct, clear, details
instructions as to what, when, and how work is to be done
Discipline - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Protecting instructional time from interruptions
Protecting teachers from internal and external distractions
Intellectual Stimulation (Transformational Leadership) - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Intellectual stimulation is characterized by enabling "followers to think of
old problems in new ways"
Optimizer - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅In solving a problem searches for optimal solution
order leadership style - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅
, formal network of communication - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅If the principal holds a
faculty meeting and shares information regarding the new reading program, the formal
communication network is being used
Informal network of communication - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅informal network, often
referred to as "the grapevine," does have some negative features, of which the most noted are
distortion and rumors (unsubstantiated information).
downward communication - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Information that flows from higher
to lower levels in the organization's hierarchy.
upward communication - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Information that flows from lower to
higher levels in the organization's hierarchy. perhaps the form of communication that is most
prone to filtering
horizantal communication - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅When individuals communicate
with other individuals of the same status in the organization, horizontal communication is
occurring
Vertical Communication - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The term vertical is not used here to
refer to the direction of the communication; rather, it describes a pattern that focuses on
combining upward and downward communication, making leaders more visible through face-
to-face contact.
diagonal communication - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Communication that cuts across
vertical and horizontal channels.
wheel network - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅a communication network in which a
gatekeeper regulates the flow of information from all other members
cognitive dissonance theory - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅the theory that we act to reduce
the discomfort (dissonance) we feel when two of our thoughts (cognitions) are inconsistent.
For example, when our awareness of our attitudes and of our actions clash, we can reduce the
resulting dissonance by changing our attitudes
