Strategic Management: Strategic Managment

Gregory G. Dess, University of Texas at Dallas
G.T. Lumpkin, University of Illinois--Chicago

Effective Strategic Leadership: Creating a Learning Organization and an Ethical Culture

True or False


1	The leadership activity that entails building structures, teams, systems, and processes that facilitate the realization of a leader's vision is designing the organization.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


2	Successful learning organizations have a passive, uninspired approach to the unknown.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


3	In the "top-down" method to empowerment, leaders clarify the mission, allot responsibility, and hold people accountable for results.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


4	"Open book" management is a technique for gathering and disseminating internal information so that all employees can be uninvolved in decision making and management.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


5	Elements of an organization's design, structure, and reporting relationships that obstruct the flow of information are referred to as systemic barriers to change.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


6	Leaders who fail to establish proper systems and controls that facilitate ethical conduct share no responsibility with those who conceive, execute, and knowingly profit from corporate misdeeds.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


7	Distributing rewards strictly on the basis of outcomes is an effective way to encourage ethical behavior in an organization.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE

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