Communication
Power
Leadership
Management
Change Mgt
100

The perceptual model of communication depicts communication as a process in which:

  1. communication is 100 percent accurate.

  2. communication needs are minimized.

  3. receivers create meaning in their own minds.

  4. there is no need to encode or decode messages.

  5. feedback is not important.

What is receivers create meaning in their own minds (3)?

100

What type of management style is when the manager/leader and followers jointly make decisions?

  1. power sharing

  2. authoritarian

  3. influence sharing

  4. power distribution

  5. compliance

What is power sharing (1)?

100

________ leadership focuses on increased benefit to others rather than to oneself.

  1. Transformational

  2. Relationship-motivated

  3. LMX

  4. Servant

  5. Inspirational

What is Servant (4)?

100

What type of management style is when the manager/leader and followers jointly make decisions?

  1. authoritarian

  2. influence sharing

  3. power distribution

  4. power sharing

  5. compliance

What is power sharing (4)?

100

The ________ stage of the Lewin model addresses helping people and the organization institutionalize the changes.

  1. freezing

  2. motivating

  3. change

  4. refreezing

  5. training

What is refreezing (4)?

200

A decision maker is influenced by the manner in which a problem or question is stated. This represents the ________ bias.

  1. confirmation

  2. availability

  3. representativeness

  4. overconfidence

  5. framing

What is framing (5)?

200

The relationship between conflict intensity and performance outcomes can be described as:

  1. the higher the conflict intensity, the lower the performance.

  2. the higher the conflict intensity, the higher the performance.

  3. higher conflict intensity is related to moderate performance.

  4. both high and low conflict intensity are related to lower performance.

  5. conflict intensity is unrelated to performance.

What is both high and low conflict intensity are related to lower performance (4)?

200

________ focuses on clarifying employees’ role and task requirements and providing followers with positive and negative rewards contingent on performance.

  1. Transformational leadership

  2. Consideration

  3. Empowerment

  4. Transactional leadership

  5. Initiating structure

What is Transaction leadership (4)?

200

What tool can help employees understand how their work contributes to their employer’s overall success?

  1. business plan

  2. corporate plan

  3. solution map

  4. strategy map

  5. external process diagram

What is strategy map (4)?

200

An example of internal forces for change is:

  1. changing customer preferences.

  2. international competition.

  3. participation/suggestions by employees.

  4. demographic changes.

  5. mergers and acquisitions.

What is participation/suggestions by employees (3)?

300

In the zone of effective communication, all of the following are included except:

  1. newsletters

  2. texts

  3. voicemail

  4. noise

  5. video conference

What is noise (4)?

300

________ is expressed by demanding compliance or using intimidation or threats.

  1. Coalition building

  2. Pressure

  3. Legitimizing

  4. Consultation

  5. Ingratiation

What is pressure (2)?

300

When a leader is setting challenging goals, emphasizing excellence, and demonstrating confidence in employees’ abilities, he or she is engaging in ________ behaviors.

  1. path-goal-clarifying

  2. achievement-oriented

  3. work-facilitation

  4. supportive

  5. interaction-facilitation

What is achievement-oriented (2)?

300

In organizational development (OD), you can approach the organization as if it were a sick patient. Which of the following is first step in this approach to OD?

  1. “Refreeze” its mission statement.

  2. “Diagnose” its ills.

  3. Prescribe an “intervention.”

  4. “Evaluate” progress or effectiveness.

  5. Implement an “intervention.”

What is "Diagnose" its ills (2)?

400

What generation prefers instant messaging and texting over phone calls, letters, and reports?

  1. Gen Z

  2. Millennial

  3. Baby Boomer

  4. Gen X

  5. Traditionalist

What is Millennial (2)?

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