Impression management refers to the process by which a person influences other people's impressions of themselves in a certain way. It is an important aspect of self-regulation and also includes social interaction with others. It is the core of self-cognitive views. This basic motivation is that, whether individuals are inside or outside the organization, they are eager to be treated positively by others, to avoid being viewed negatively by others, and to try to make others actively look at their efforts is called acquired impression management, while weakening their deficiencies or avoiding A defensive measure that makes others look at themselves negatively is protective impression management. Which of the following are protected impression management:. ['Director Lin is approachable and always leads by example. Recently, the unit has collected donations for the disaster area. He has donated the most money and materials.', "Xiao Zhang's new unit always accepts the opinions of the old employee Meng, and often expresses that he admires him very much.", 'Xiaoli has few friends after work, but he told his colleagues that when he was studying in college, he was very good at studying and sports, and had many friends.', 'The company leader assigned Xiao Wang a task. Xiao Wang did not complete the task for a long time. When the leader urged him, he said, "I am very busy during this time and I will try my best to complete".']