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QUESTION

Transformational leaders communicate the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats so that employees develop a strong sense of purpose and learn to view problems as personal challenges to be overcome.

Given that some of these are internal factors and some are external factors, which part of a SWOT analysis does an employee have the most effect on and why?
A) strengths, because it’s easier to see what’s going well than to see what’s going wrong
B) weaknesses, because employees might have the best ideas for how to do things better
C) opportunities, because motivated employees are more observant
D) threats, because employees will want to defend their company
E) strengths, because employees will want the company to make more money

ANSWER

Answer: B
Explanation: B) Only weaknesses and strengths are internal. External factors are more difficult to affect. Of the internal factors listed, only Choice B has a reasonable explanation.