Empowering employees has a number of results, such as:

Empowering employees has a number of results, such as:
 
  A) decreasing the importance of information sharing.
  B) requiring managers to tell employees what to do.
  C) boosting the coercive power of managers.
  D) encouraging managers to work as facilitators.

Question 2

When employees are empowered, managers are more likely to exercise:
 
  A) expert power.
  B) charisma power.
  C) coercive power.
  D) any type of position power.

Question 3

A tool for developing a leader's concern for production and the concern for people is:
 
  A) leadership motivation training.
  B) influence style training.
  C) attribution approach training.
  D) grid training.

Question 4

John is offered an attractive incentive to steal sensitive information about his company's wealthy investment customers. Which of the following statements best reflects John's thoughts if he is at the preconventional level of moral development?
 
  A) If I do go through with the act, I will be letting down my manager and coworkers badly.
  B) My job is to protect the information that this company deals in and I should not violate my duties.
  C) I am liable to be criminally prosecuted for my involvement in stealing the information.
  D) Going through with this act would be highly unfair not just to the client, but also to my employers.

Question 5

________ measures the strength of a person's convictions.
 
  A) Moral development
  B) Locus of control
  C) Ego strength
  D) Social desirability

Question 6

Organizations that emphasize flexibility while also paying a great deal of attention to the external environment are said to have a(n):
 
  A) market culture.
  B) clan culture.
  C) adhocracy culture.
  D) competing values culture.

Question 7

Nancy becomes aware that her company is emitting toxic waste into a nearby stream. After finding that reporting it to her supervisor does no good, she reports the incident to the press. Nancy's behavior is an example of:
 
  A) organizational citizenship behavior.
  B) whistle-blowing.
  C) procedural justice.
  D) distributive justice.

Question 8

In the downsizing process, restructuring hits ________ of organizational hierarchies especially hard.
 
  A) the middle layers
  B) the strategic points
  C) the technostructures
  D) communication elements