MGT 316T Wk 5 – Practice: Knowledge Check

_________ power, which all managers have, is power that results from a manager’s authority to offer praise and pay raises, even promotions to his or her subordinates.

Multiple Choice

• Legitimate
• Expert
• Reward
• Coercive
• Referent

The primary purpose of relationship-oriented leadership behavior is to ensure that people, equipment, and other resources are used in an efficient way to accomplish the mission of a group or organization.

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Bureaucratic control attempts to elicit employee compliance using strict rules, a rigid hierarchy, well-defined job descriptions, and administrative mechanisms such as budgets, performance appraisals, and compensation schemes.

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Dionne has been very careful to work with her team to finalize next year’s goals. She has taken the process seriously and now wants to make sure that others do their part. She is insisting that all employees follow instructions fully and completely. How would you describe the management function that Dionne is now engaging in?

Multiple Choice

• She is in the controlling function because she is concerned with seeing that the right things happen at the right time.
• She is in the planning function because she is setting goals and deciding how to achieve them.
• She is in the micromanaging function because she is over-controlling the employees.
• She is in the leading function because she is motivating the people to work hard.
• She is in the organizing function, because she is arranging tasks and people to accomplish the work.

Which negative trait of some leaders is marked by a cynical view of human nature that condones opportunistic and unethical ways of manipulating people, putting results over principles?

Multiple Choice

• narcissism
• Machiavellianism
• glad-handing
• sociopathy
• psychopathy

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a successful control system?

Multiple Choice

• It is realistic and positive.
• It is timely and accurate.
• It is strategic.
• It is results oriented.
• It is inflexible.

_____ focuses on clarifying employees’ roles and task requirements and providing rewards and punishments contingent on performance.

Multiple Choice

• Participative management
• Laissez-faire leadership
• Servant leadership
• Transactional leadership
• Empowering leadership

Which of the following statements is NOT a practical implication of the behavioral approaches to leadership?

Multiple Choice

• It is important to train managers on the various forms of task leadership.
• It is important to train managers on the various forms of relationship leadership.
• There is one best style of leadership.
• A leader’s behavior is more important than his or her traits.
• How effective a particular leadership behavior is depends on the situation at hand.

______ is the last step in the control process.

Multiple Choice

• Measure the performance
• Take ive action if necessary
• Develop an ideal
• Determine the problem
• Establish standards

Which of the following is NOT a key quality displayed by humble leaders?

Multiple Choice

• appreciation of others
• low self-focus
• low self-awareness
• appreciation of the greater good
• openness to feedback