Chapter 13 and 14 Management

According to industrial psychology, job performance is an additive function of motivation, ability, and situational constraints.

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According to some industrial psychologists, Job Performance = Motivation × Ability.

False

As a leader behavior, consideration refers to the extent to which leaders do what they said they would do.

False

In general, extrinsic rewards are more important to workers than intrinsic rewards.

False

Needs are defined as the social requirements that must be met to ensure survival.

False

One of the differences between managers and leaders is that managers focus on visions, missions, goals, and objectives, and leaders focus solely on productivity and efficiency.

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The basic components of equity theory are outcomes, instrumentality, and valence.

False

While consideration primarily affects subordinates' job performance, initiating structure primarily affects subordinates' job satisfaction.

False

According to McClelland's Learned Needs Theory, people are motivated by a need for power, achievement, and affiliation.

True

According to the trait theory, all effective leaders possess a similar set of traits or characteristics.

True

As a leader behavior, initiating structure is the degree to which a leader structures the roles of followers by setting goals, giving directions, setting deadlines, and assigning tasks.

True

Initiating structure leader behavior has also been referred to as "job-centered leadership" and "concern for production."

True

Leadership is the process of influencing others to achieve group or organizational goals.

True

Managers tend to have a short-term perspective, leaders tend to have a long-term perspective.

True

Motivation is the set of forces that initiates, directs, and makes people persist in their efforts to accomplish a goal.

True

Once lower-order needs are satisfied, it is difficult to predict which higher-order needs will motivate behavior.

True

The leadership behavior of consideration has also been referred to as "concern for people" and "employee-centered leadership."

True

The leadership trait of integrity refers to the extent to which leaders do what they said they would do.

True

The primary difference between leaders and managers is that leaders are concerned with doing the right thing, while managers are concerned with doing things right.

True

The two kinds of inequity are underreward and overreward.

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