Chapter 10 - Effective Leadership & Human Relations
Chapter 11 - The Team Concept
Chapter 12 - Human Behavior and the Art of Persuasion
Chapter 14 - Effective Delegation & How to Assign Work
Chapter 15 - The Role of Personality
100

Listen first; speak last is a leadership effectiveness rule espoused by this business guru.

Who is Peter Drucker?

100

Name two of the stages in the life of a group.

What are:

forming

storming

norming

performing

100

This person established the Hierarchy of Needs.

Who is Abraham Maslow?

100

In the book, ________, Richard Bolles provides a tool to evaluate your personality based on job families.

What is What Color is Your Parachute?

100

Openness to experience is one of the traits in this personality assessment.

What is the Big 5 or OCEAN?

200

He is the author of How to Win Friends and Influence People.

Who is Dale Carnegie?

200

What are two factors that can lead to groupthink?

What are:

pressure to conform to the majority view

group cohesiveness

isolation

stress

200

Author Daniel Goleman identified this as an essential and indispensable requirement for effective leadership.

What is emotional intelligence?

200

These managers supervise and coordinate the activities of operating employees.

What are first-line managers?

200

The qualities that are associated with jobs requiring high social contact and service to others are most likely found in people high in this personality.

What is extroversion?

300

Physical withdrawal in the workplace can be exhibited by this action.

What is absenteeism?

Also acceptable are daydreaming, moonlighting, and cyber loafing.

300

This person wrote The Five Dysfunctions of Team.

Who is Patrick Lencioni?

300

This is at the top of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.

What is self actualization or fulfillment>

300

These are purported to be the 3 D's for all work.

What are:

do it

delegate it

ditch it

300

Name two of the four ways to to differences of personality/conflict in the work place.

What are:

talk it out

be understanding

be flexible

be tolerant

400

The purpose of the Hawthorne Studies was to analyzed these things.

What are working conditions and work relationships?

400

An individual approach works best to accomplish when this situation exists.

What is "when immediate action required"?

400

According to the text, name one of the three elements of the Art of Persuasion.

What is:

An understanding of people

the effective use of words

the ability to manage conflict

400

This is a good rule to follow in selecting employees and assigning work.

What is PAP?

Performance

Attitude

Psycho-social compatibility

400

The text identified three different styles of interpersonal relations.

What are:

traditionals

participatives

individualists

500

This is the single strongest driver of overall job satisfaction.

What is the work itself?

500

This technique emphasizes building on strengths and gaining commitment through participation.

What is appreciative inquiry?

500

According to Kenneth Thomas, this is one approach to managing conflict.

What is:

avoidance

accommodation

domination 

compromise

collaboration

500

This book was on the 1969 New York Times best seller list and proposed that people are promoted to their level of incompetence.

What is the Peter Principle?

500

This book addresses one of the Big Five personality traits of extroversion/introversion.

What is Quiet?