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A strategic vision provides a clear future direction for the firm,a framework for its mission and goals,and enhanced employee communication,participation,and commitment.

A) True
B) False

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According to research,effective leaders at all levels of organizations have high levels of Emotional Intelligence (EI) .CEOs with high EI excel in all of the following except

A) managing relationships.
B) influencing people.
C) forging alliances inside and outside the firm.
D) ability to discourage outside stakeholders.

E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

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All of the following are components of emotional intelligence (EI) except

Which of the following is not a part of the three broad sets of capabilities that a leader should possess?

According to the CEO of Hanover Insurance,learning organizations require that everyone feels and supports a compelling purpose.What is the most difficult aspect of creating this learning organization?

Ethics is a question of personal scruples,a confidential matter between employees and their consciences and therefore for a leader it is acceptable to assume the company should not bear any responsibility for individual misdeeds.

Setting a direction is the leadership activity that involves developing a strategic vision of what the organization could become.

When faced with barriers to change,leaders can create a good climate for advancing the aims of the organization and making progress towards its goals by building ______________ and _____________.

According to the Gresham law of planning,operational decisions do not drive out the time necessary for strategic thinking and reflection.

Successful leaders are driven by a deeply embedded desire to achieve for the sake of achievement.

Proactive measures to prevent organizational ethics problems do not include

Inspiring and motivating people with a mission or purpose is a necessary and sufficient condition for developing a learning organization.

In the integrity-based approach to ethics management,the objective is to

To successfully empower employees to achieve organizational goals,leaders must perform the tasks of resource allocation and power brokering.

Inappropriate reward systems seldom cause individuals at all levels throughout an organization to commit unethical acts,since people are either unethical or ethical in their behavior.

An ethical organization is characterized by its concept of ethical values and integrity that is used to unify the organization across different functions,lines of business,and employee groups.

According to Michael Williams,director of Entrepreneurship Activities and the Business and Entrepreneurship Clinic at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business,effective leaders ____________ themselves with exceptional people and are trusted and fantastic ____________.

Barriers associated with a managerial tendency to look at issues from a biased or limited perspective are known as

People with strong self-awareness are overly critical and unrealistically optimistic and are well suited to run organizations,because they will make good judgment calls.

Coercive power is the power exercised by use of fear of punishment for errors of either omission or commission by employees.