Principles of Management Unit 5

Two important group outcomes or consequences of the interactive process that unfolds between a leader, follower, and the situation include:

task performance and group maintenance

The path-goal theory of leadership includes all of the following EXCEPT:

the modification of the situation to fit the predominant style of leadership

When Suzanne wanted to learn about the law that protects individuals who are 40 years of age or older from employment discrimination based on age, she should read up on which of the following?

ADEA of 1967

People born between 1946 and 1964 are classified as which of these?

Baby Boomers

According to the evolution of HR work, in _____, HR continues to be a partner to the business, but has also become a competitive practice for responding to external business conditions.

wave 4

______ occurs when an employee or an applicant is treated unfairly at work or in the job hiring process due to an identity group, condition, or personal characteristic.

workplace discrimination

Which of the following definitions of leadership is adopted by your textbook authors?

Leadership is defined as a social influence relationship between two or more persons who depend upon one another for the attainment of certain mutual goals in a group situation.

As a manager your organization is constantly confronted with a variety of changes in the market or a wide range of situations. You have to recruit and select a manager for a group of employees responsible for several related products. You have just read about Fiedler's Contingency model and decided to use the LPC score to aid you in selecting a leader for the management group. You have interviewed four candidates for the job (Erin, Josh, Michael, Tabitha) and the scores for each of the candidates were Erin=high LPC, Josh=moderately high LPC, Michael=middle LPC, Tabitha=low LPC. Which of the candidates would you hire?

Michael (NOT ERIN!!!!!)

Jay Patel is the HR manager at BNB Manufacturing. Jay wants to establish the pay-for-performance structure at BNB. Jay's boss is interested in the following questions: How much differentiation of performance will we have? What is the cost of doing this pay-for-performance? Jay should focus on which of the following step in the framework to obtain these answers?

Review the financial impacts of creating pay-for-performance changes.

______ suggests that people use categorization to simplify and cope with large amounts of information. These categories allow us to quickly and easily compartmentalize data, and people are often categorized by their visible characteristics, such as race, sex, and age.

Social cognitive theory

As a manager of a diverse work group, which of the following general statements or principles would you use to guide you in attempting to be an effective leaders?

The effective practice of leadership necessitates a careful look at and understanding of the individual differences brought to the leader-follower relationship by the cross-cultural context.

________ discrimination is a catchall term that describes when people are denied employment opportunities because of their identity group or personal characteristics such as sex, race, age, or other factors.

access

Performance management began as a simple tool to drive _____ but has evolved more recently into a tool used for _____.

accountability; employee development

Human resources compliance is an area that traces back to the very origin of the human resources function—to

administrative and regulatory functions.

According to Professor Conger of McGill University, a strategic opportunist is:

an organizational visionary

Which of these refers to differences between team members in characteristics such as expertise, experiences, and perspectives?

cognitive diversity

At BAC Toys, employees go through hiring and onboarding, to performance management and talent development, all the way through to transitions such as job change and promotion, to retirement and exit. This is called ______.

employee life cycle

In Wave 2 of the evolution of HR, it looks outside their organizations to customers, investors, and communities to define success—in the form of customer share, investor confidence, and community reputation.

false

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) of 1967 protects individuals who are 30 years of age or older from employment discrimination based on age.

false

According to Professor Jay A. Conger, Professor at Canada's McGill University, the major forces for the next generation of leaders will be:

global competitiveness and diversity

______ represents the degree to which employees are accepted and treated fairly by their organization.

inclusion

All of the following would be considered a substitute for leadership EXCEPT:

low position power

Which term describes a stereotype that portrays Asian men and women as obedient and successful and is often used to justify socioeconomic disparities between other racial minority groups?

model minority myth

Although HR is responsible for creating and facilitating the performance management processes, it is the ______ that need to strongly support the process and communicate the linkage of performance management to overall organizational goals and performance.

organizational managers

Which leadership theory states that the challenge facing leaders is first to analyze the situation and identify the most appropriate style of leadership and then to develop the capacity to be flexible enough to use different leadership styles as appropriate?

path-goal approach to leadership

Which term represents an individual's visible characteristics, including, but not limited to, age, body size, visible disabilities, race, or sex?

surface-level diversity

Compared to _____% in 1977, the labor force participation rate for men is now approximately ______% and is expected to decrease through 2024 to _____%.

59; 53; 52

By the 1960s nearly _____% of all U.S. companies were using a performance appraisal process.

90

Which agency was created by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the primary goal of making it illegal to discriminate against someone in the workplace due to their race, national origin, sex, disability, religion, or pregnancy status?

EEOC

Which of the following statements regarding the differences between management and leadership is NOT true?

Leaders are seen as motivating primarily through extrinsic processes while managers motivate primarily through intrinsic processes.