A manager causing emotional or psychological suffering for those he or she manages would be called which type of manager?
A) A workaholic manager B) A split-personality manager
C) A malicious manager D) A spineless manager
Question 2The ________ studies researched the effects of productivity changes in the work environment and the results led to the development of behavioral management.
A) pay-for-performance B) command
C) time and motion D) Hawthorne
Question 3Company rules state that employees are not late if they arrive within seven minutes of their assigned starting time. If anyone is late more than three times, however, they are suspended without pay for a week.
Samuel is eight minutes late today because a tornado knocked out
electricity in his town and the storm afterward caused widespread flooding and traffic jams.
Samuel's boss wrote him up for being late anyway, even though he was the first worker to arrive
today. What behavior is Samuel's boss exhibiting?
A) Hoarding B) Buck passing
C) Abdication D) Playing it by the numbers
Question 4Daryl is afraid to make wrong decisions or to overstep his authority, so he sends his decisions up to his boss. Daryl is employing what type of decision making?
A) Affective decision making B) Conflict-based decision making
C) Buck-passing decision making D) Delayed decision making
Question 5________ decisions are those where time plays a major role.
A) Temporal B) Rational C) Political D) Economic
Question 6Harold wants something done about the air quality in his area. He went to Martha, his manager, and she told him she needs the request in writing. After he wrote it down, she said she needed it on a certain form.
After filling out the form, Harold was then told he would need to collect
data from air samples. What type of decision making does it appear Martha is using?
A) Emergency temporal decision B) Quick temporal decision
C) Lying D) Delayed decision