With regard to personal and team identities, all of the following are true EXCEPT:
a. groups and teams provide people with identity.
b. feeling good about ourselves is often dependent upon feeling that our groups are adequate or superior to other groups.
c. there is a potentially infinite number of group distinctions that people can use to define their identity.
d. people with an interdependent outlook focus on the extent to which they are autonomous and unique.
Question 2Organizational involvement may involve top-management teams (TMT). One advantage of TMT with regard to participative management is:
a. by restructuring the tasks performed by employees to make them more rewarding, people are more engaged.
b. by moving away from commitment and toward bureaucracy, the hierarchy of leadership is concentrated at the top of the organization.
c. TMT, as opposed to individuals, are more likely to represent the wide range of interests of people in the organization.
d. by involving people at the lowest levels of the organization, they learn how to maximize the organization's goals.
Question 3All of the following strategies may encourage participative management EXCEPT:
a. task delegation.
b. parallel suggestion involvement.
c. job involvement.
d. theory X management.
Question 4What is one of the key reasons why leaders should be vigilant about their use of power, and seek feedback as to the effectiveness of their behaviors?
a. Power can make people focus more on negative, threatening information rather than positive information.
b. Many leaders who have power engage in a more limited array of behaviors.
c. Leaders often have an egocentrically-biased view of themselves, believing themselves to be more fair, generous, and trustworthy than others evaluate them to be.
d. Those who lack power are often blindly trusting of those who are in positions of power.
Question 5What is one way to enhance the quality of Leader-Member Exchanges (LMX) between leaders and their employees?
a. A manager invests in their employees' skills, and empowers them to grow and learn.
b. Leader keeps out of his or her employees' way, and focuses on tracking the financial gains of the team's performance.
c. Unethical leadership practices.
d. Leader invests in building their external network of business contacts.
Question 6According to French and Raven, there are many different sources of power that people use in organizations and teams.
A person who is the leader or CEO of a company has __________ power; a person who has special training in a given subject has __________ power; a person who uses praise has __________ power.
a. expert; referent; reward
b. legitimate; expert; reward
c. reward; expert; referent
d. legitimate; referent; reward
Question 7In regard to using power, Wageman and Mannix identify patterns of power use by team members. Which of the power use patterns is considered the most effective?
a. Abdication
b. Overuse
c. Managing the resource
d. Expert power
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