Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

Question

1. Self-leadership suggests that goals should be set by the employee's supervisor with or without the employee's involvement.
2. Positive self-talk motivates employees by increasing their effort-to-performance expectancy.
3. Mental imagery helps us to anticipate and work out solutions to potential obstacles in our
work.
4. Mental imagery excludes visualizing completion of a task.
5. An element of self-leadership involves keeping track of our progress toward goals.

Answer 1

1. FALSE
Self-leadership involves setting goals alone, rather than having them assigned by or jointly
decided with a supervisor. Research suggests that employees are more focused and perform
better when they set their own goals, particularly in combination with other self-leadership
practices.
2. TRUE
Self-talk refers to any situation in which we talk to ourselves about our own thoughts or
actions. Positive self-talk creates a ''can-do'' belief and thereby increases motivation by raising
our self-efficacy and reducing anxiety about challenging tasks. This way, it increases the
effort-to-performance expectancy of employees.
3. TRUE
Mental imagery involves mentally practicing the task, anticipating obstacles to goal
accomplishment, and working out solutions to those obstacles before they occur. By mentally
walking through the activities required to accomplish the task, we begin to see problems that
may occur. We can then imagine what responses would be best for each contingency.
4. FALSE
One part of mental imagery helps us anticipate things that could go wrong; the other part
involves visualizing successful completion of the task. This visualization increases goal
commitment and motivates people to complete the task effectively.
5. TRUE
An element of self-leadership, called self-monitoring is the process of keeping track at regular
intervals of one's progress toward a goal by using naturally occurring feedback.