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P I A PERSONAL
INVENTORY
PERSONAL INVENTORY ASSESSMENT
ASSESSMENT
Leadership Style Indicator: While leadership styles will often need to vary based on the situation, most people have a
preference for one style or another. Use this scale to assess your personal leadership style preference.
Personal Assessment of Management Skills: This instrument is designed to assess your proficiency in the use of
important personal and interpersonal skills that are relevant for managers.
Ethical Leadership Assessment: Since leaders set the tone for the entire organization, it’s especially important that they
engage in ethical behaviours. Use this scale to assess your ethical perspective on leadership roles.
OB at Work
BREAKOUT GROUP EXERCISES
Form small groups to discuss the following topics, as assigned by your instructor:
1. Identify an example of someone you think of as a good leader (currently or in the past). What traits did he or
she have? How did these traits differ from those in someone you identify as a bad leader?
2. Identify a situation when you were in a leadership position (in a group, in the workplace, within your family,
etcetera). To what extent were you able to use a contingency approach to leadership? What made that easier
or more difficult for you?
3. When you have worked in student groups, how frequently have leaders emerged in the groups? What difficulties
occur when leaders are leading peers? Are there ways to overcome these difficulties?
Being Charismatic
From Concepts to Skills on pages 410 – 411 provides ideas on how to become charismatic. In this exercise, you will use
that information to practise projecting charisma. 134
1. The class should break into pairs.
EXPERIENTIAL EXERCISE
2. Student A’s task is to “lead” Student B through a new-student orientation to your college or university. The
orientation should last about 10 to 15 minutes. Assume that Student B is new to your college or university and
is unfamiliar with the campus. Student A should attempt to project himself or herself as charismatic.
3. Roles now reverse and Student B’s task is to “lead” Student A in a 10- to 15-minute program on how to study
more effectively for college or university exams. Take a few minutes to think about what has worked well for
you, and assume that Student A is a new student interested in improving his or her study habits. Again, Student
B should attempt to project himself or herself as charismatic.
4. When both role plays are complete, each pair should assess how well it did in projecting charisma and how it
might improve.
ETHICAL DILEMMA
Undercover Leaders
The W Network television show Undercover Boss Canada
features a leader working undercover in his or her own
company to find out how the organization really works. 135
Here, we consider the ethical leadership lessons it might offer.
Executives from Mexx Canada, Calgary Transit, Sodexo
Canada, and Mr. Lube have been featured on the show.
Typically, the executive works undercover for a week.
Then the employees with whom and under whom the