Question 25 Jose Rodriguez is a project leader for his large accounting firm. Hi

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Question 25

Jose Rodriguez is a project leader for his large accounting firm. His team is composed of several CPAs with an average of fifteen years experience each. Each team member is both competent and motivated to accomplish project tasks. Jose feels he should be actively listening and assisting the team members to use what they have learned. The Situational Leadership® Model would suggest that Jose practice a __________ leadership style.

Theory X

Theory Y

selling

participating

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Question 26

__________ diversification occurs when a firm adds unrelated goods or services to its line of business.

Concentric

Conglomerate

Horizontal

Backward

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Question 27

ConAgra, a diversified international food company, uses a team whose members are the purchasing manager and the purchasing agents in the department. Their goals include minimizing costs and ensuring that beef supplies are available to stores when needed. To achieve their goals, these work team members coordinate their activities constantly, sharing information on price changes and new products. What type of team is ConAgra likely using?

functional work team

self-managing work team

problem-solving work team

task force

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Question 28

When authority is concentrated at the top of an organization or department, decision making is __________.

strategic

decentralized

focused

centralized

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Question 29

Reuben Jennings is a life insurance salesman. He has changed jobs five times in the last fifteen years and is always looking for a good job opportunity. He has many friends who are agents with competing firms, and every so often they get together over lunch to discuss opportunities in their respective firms. This is an example of a(n) __________ channel.

downward

informal

horizontal

formal

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Question 30

Psychologist Abraham Maslow believed people have five types of needs, which he arranged in a hierarchy of needs. Why did Maslow arrange these needs in this manner?

Maslow believed needs are met in a chronological order, starting with infancy to old age.

Maslow suggested that, as a person satisfies each level of needs, motivation shifts to satisfying the next higher level of needs.

Maslow hypothesized that our needs are met over the years as we progress academically.

All of the above are among Maslow's conclusions.

Theory X

Theory Y

selling

participating

Explanation / Answer

Please find answers to first 4 questions ( Q.25 , Q26, Q27 and Q.28):

Theory X and theory Y are two contrasting styles of workforce motivation. Theory X is related to an authoritarian style of management that assumes that employees are inherently lazy and work averse. Managers adopting this style of management adopt stricter management controls and closer supervision in order to align the employee’s behaviour to the needs of the organization. A primary motivation in such cases is the employee’s needs for money and security.

Theory Y in contrast is related to a more participative style of management where employees are actively encouraged to be involved in the decision-making processes within the organization. It assumes that employees are self-motivated and see work as being a natural and enjoyable part of life. Both Theory X and Theory Y are in agreement that a manager’s responsibility is to plan, organize and coordinate workplace activities in order to meet organizational goals and maximize efficiencies. As such, both styles of management may have their place in the workforce where the primary need is to motivate employees and maximize productivity.

The style of management followed by Jose through listening and assisting is a participative type of management , i.e. Theory Y management.

JOSE PRATICES A THORY Y LEADERSHIP STYLE

Conglomerate are business houses who are involved in multiple number of businesses which are remotely connected with each other. More frequently found in Asia, one conglomerate can be involved in a salt to software business .

CONGOLOMERATE DIVERSIFICATION OCCURS WHEN A FIRM ADDS UNRELATED GOODS AND SERVICES TOITS LINE OF BUSINESS

A self-management team is a group of workers assigned to perform a specific job for a company. Instead of loosely connected workers performing separate tasks, a self-management team performs a defined set of interrelated tasks and has the autonomy to make most critical decisions about the work. Companies use self-management teams to improve productivity, quality and cost-management.  While the self-management team is independent, the team members are interdependent. The team is self-regulating, operating with few external controls. Team members determine schedules, procedures and the need to make adjustments.

Based on above explanation, the example given here is a case of “slef managing work tema “

CONAGRA IS LIKELY USING SELF MANAGING WORK TEAM

A centralized organizational structure is a setup in which most power and critical decision making responsibilities are concentrated with a few key leaders. A centralized organization often houses its primary decision makers or executives in a central headquarters with offices and meeting areas for leaders to discuss business.

WHEN AUTHORITY IS CONCENTRATED AT TOP OF AN ORGANIZATION OR DEPARTMENT, DECISION MAKING IS CENTRALIZED

JOSE PRATICES A THORY Y LEADERSHIP STYLE

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