SNCOA Test 2 UPDATED Questions and
CORRECT Answers
DDR - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Helps teach airman their jobs
Happens early on in career
DDR: Direction, discipline recognition, the foundation of P2 the foundation of early career
helps teach Airmen who their jobs
Profession of arms - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Three dimensions :physical intellectual
moral
Progressive professionalism P2 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Rating yourself on a continuum
less professional two more professional, how you dress carry yourself attitude interaction
Comprehensive airman fitness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Resiliency , well-being health,
improve resiliency develop life skills reduce self-defeating behaviors enhance physical fitness
Total force fitness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Individual, family, organization enables you
to sustain optimal well-being and performance under all conditions
Domains of fitness (4) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Mental, physical, social, spiritual
Ethical relativism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Definition of right or wrong, depends on the
view of the individual culture history, nothing is objectively right or wrong
Ethical leadership - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Combines ethical decision making and
ethical behavior, Occurs in individuals and organizations
Ethical dilemma - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Situations where one is forced to choose
between two alternatives both can be on favorable or less right
,Morals - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Values that we attribute to a system of believes, help us
define right from wrong generally come from a higher being or authority. <ex, religious
believes >
Values - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- ValuesCore believes we hold regarding what is fair for
what we believe to be of worth
Competing values - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- When your personal values conflict With
those of an institution, subordinance or peers
Ethical traps (4 types) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Confusion or uncertainty about what
action to take in a situation. Examples include ethical relativism, loyalty syndrome, wary over
image, drive for success
Ethical relativism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Weather in action is right or wrong depends
on the moral norm of the society, When decisions are made based on personal values or
beliefs of right or wrong rather than military rules regulations or codes of conduc (ethical trap
)
Loyalty syndrome - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Making decisions based on respect or
loyalty to an individual unit or organization , rather than using military rules regulations or
codes of conduct (ethical trap)
Worry over image - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Making decisions based on how they will
impact your reputation for image (ethical trap)
Drive for success - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Making a decision based on "win at all cost"
attitude rather than military rules regulations or code of conduct, "all about me way of
leading" ( ethical trap)
"Toners" ethical principles (3) OPRD - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Owning, ordering,
ougting
Principal, purpose, people
Rules, results, reality
,Discern, declare, do
Ethical decision making (5 steps - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. Interpret the situation
2. Analyze the situation
3. Identify ethical traps
4. consider possible COAS
5. Decide most ethical COA
Change management - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- how you handled change and how you
lead your organization through change
Change agent - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Individual test with implementing the change
Elements of adaptability (3) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Cognitive, emotional, dispositional
Cognitive flexibility - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Incorporating different thinking strategies,
keeping multiple scenarios in mind so that you can adjust to changing situations having a
plan a B or C if needed.
Emotional flexibility - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Ability to change how you deal with your
and others' emotions, maintaining balance (seeking your mentors advice)
Dispositional flexibility - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Optimism grounded in realism, seeing
the positive but being realistic and honest (mentoring)
Kubler - Ross: reactions to change model (5) stages - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Denile,
anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance (People can cycle through or regress)
Claes- Jansen: reaction to change model - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Tool for visualizing
how people experience change, perceptions feelings, aspirations, triggered by External
change
Consists of the following phases; contentment, denial, confusion, renewal
, Resistance (2) types - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Active resistance; finding fault, ridiculing,
appealing to fear, manipulating (In your face )
Passive resistance; includes agreeing verbally but not following through, framing ignorance
and withholding information
example of globalization as a pressure for a change - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Increased
competition for quality work forces; communication problems due to water differences in
workforce skills, attitudes and needs; challenges in building cohesion and common purpose
because of organizational differences
Globalization ( pressure to change ) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Process of interaction &
integration among the people companies, governments of different nations usually driven by
international trade & investments, aided by information technology
Pressures for change (5) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Internal environment (w/i ORG )
external environment, (outside ORG)
globalization, (governments)
peace, ( reduce military forces)
demographics ( change in population)
Rogers diffusion of innovations Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Based on how quickly
a person adapts new ideas (5)
Innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, leggards
Innovation Theory:
Late majority - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Large majority, Greatest percentage of population
more skeptical of change
Might not get on board until they see others doing so
Innovation theory:
