Mgt. Set 4

Darla is a research analyst at Hughend Inc. which of the following types of teams has been described

Self-directed team

_____are teams made up of members who work with minimum supervision and rotate jobs to produce a complete product or service

Self-directed teams

_____ are good at traditional management functions such as planning and budgeting and generally focus on the impersonal aspects of job performance

Transactional leaders

According to a report from the National Bureau of Economic Research, white-sounding names got 50 percent more call-backs than African American-sounding names, even when skills and experience were equal. This is an example of _____.

Unconscious Bias

A leader who understands why teams are difficult for people can:

Be more effective

Which of the following types of leaders uses unconventional means to transcend the status quo and create change?

Charismatic leaders

Follower ___, a response to the use of power, helps to overcome the fear associated with change efforts.

Commitment

______, a follower response to the use of power, means that people will obey orders and carry out instructions even though they may not like it.

Compliance

A(n) ____ is made up of members from different departments within an organization

Cross-functional team

A group consists of people who:

Do related work but may not depend on each other

Personalized leaders are characterized as ____.

Exploitative

A(n) ______ is a team member who attains benefits from team membership but does not actively participate in and contribute to the team's work

Free rider

Paying a woman less than a man for the same work is known as ________.

Gender Discrimination

Grace and Richard work for QWERTY Corp. They have similar experience and bth have been promoted to senior managers for a new project. However, Grace is paid less that Richard for the same work. This is an example of:

Gender discrimination

Transformational Leadership:

Inspires followers to go beyond their own self-interests for the good of the group

Which of the following is a common dysfunction of teams?

Lack of trust

_______ refers to an adverse feeling or opinion formed without regard for the facts.

Prejudice

Which of the following statements is true of the glass ceiling?

Prevailing attitudes are invincible obstacles to women's advancement

In terms of the common team dysfunctions, in attention to results leads members to:

Put personal ambition ahead of collective results

______ exercise power in service of higher goals that will benefit others and the organization as a whole

Socialized Leaders

_____ focus on a particular goal and disband once the project is completed

Special-purpose teams

Which of the following statements is true of teams

Teams work to accomplish a shared goal

Which of the following is a criterion that can guide ethical action?

The action should respect the rights of individuals and groups affected by it

In the context of the survey of followers, which of the following statements is true of female leaders?

They are more individually considerate than male leaders

Which of the following statements is true of charismatic leaders?

They use unconventional means to transcend the existing order

When a leader and company act out prejudicial attitudes toward people who are the targets of their prejudice, ____occurs.

discrimination

The inclusive model of diversity includes differences in:

lifestyle only

Ethnocentrism is the belief that

one's culture and subculture are inherently superior to other cultures

In the United States, some women leaders feel that the cost of climbing the corporate ladder is too high and they leave before ever encountering the glass ceiling. This phenomenon has been referred to as the:

opt-out trend

A charismatic leader:

uses available means to achieve goals within the framework of the existing order. (wrong)