Topic 9
What are the three different approaches to leadership?
Traits
Behavior
Contingency
A decision maker's ability to analyze only a few things at a time is referred to as what?
Cognitive Limits of Rationality
True or False:
Employees should not be terminated unless their jobs are eliminated, or they are unable to perform them. Personal preferences and personality clashes are not valid reasons for termination.
True.
This guideline can direct the development of ethical employment policies.
What are the 3 parts of the scientific method?
Hypotheses
Constructs
Observations
This kind of leader gets things done by relying on contingent rewards.
Transactional Leaders
What is one criteria we must consider when comparing individual versus group decision making?
Accuracy and Judgement
Creativity
Commitment and Acceptance
Time and Cost
Wages, Salaries, and benefits are an example of what kind of employment exchange?
Inducements-contributions balance
What research method consists of gathering information from employees who are working in their natural, everyday environment?
Field Survey
Tannenbaum and Schmidt created a model with how many different leadership styles?
7
The purpose of ---- was to enhance creativity through group discussions.
Brainstorming
Aviation Investment and Reform Act protects who?
Whistleblowers in the airline industry
The Solomon four-group design is the most highly recommended research design for evaluating what?
Training Programs
What are the three leadership styles, as discussed under the Behavior approach?
Authoritarian
Democratic
Laissez-faire
What occurs in highly cohesive groups when group pressures lead to reduce mental effort, poor testing of reality, and careless moral judgements.
Groupthink
What is the Caux Round Table?
An international organization of experienced senior business executives aiming to promote ethical business practices and a principled approach to global capitalism.
Participant observers live with the people being studied and observe them over an extended time is an example of what kind of research?
Quantitative or Qualitative?
Qualitative
Which decision making model identifies the appropriate styles leaders should use in making decisions?
Vroom and Yetton's normative decision-making model.
Allowing an employee to have 2 weeks off with pay for military duty may be treated as what kind of decision?
Nonprogrammed
Section 806 of the Sarbanes Oxley Act, 2002 protects who from retaliation?
Whistleblowers
This kind of chart displays all of the tasks involved in a project, the relative order of the tasks, and the amount of time each task is expected to take.
Gantt Chart