MGT 521 Complete Week 4 MGT 521 Week 4 DQ 1 The Management textbook describes three different types of leadership theories: early, contingency, and contemporary. Which of these leadership theories is the most complementary with your view of leadership and its place in management? Explain and support your answer. MGT 521 Week 4 DQ 2 The business world today continues to become more globalized, and most managers will find themselves working with at least one team member from a different culture. What are the factors a manager must consider when attempting to lead a team that includes members from other cultures? Do these factors differ, depending on the cultures represented on the team? Why or why not? MGT 521 Week 4 DQ 3 How can an understanding of organizational behavior help a manager improve employee job satisfaction and decrease turnover? What factors must be considered when gauging job satisfaction? MGT 521 Week 4 DQ 4 The Management textbook speaks to how managers can manage generational differences in the workplace. Why is it important to ensure generational differences are appropriately handled? Share an example of a misunderstanding you witnessed that was due to generational differences. MGT 521 Week 4 Individual Organizing Work You are a team of managers at a company. Upper management is concerned that the structure of the division your team manages is not accomplishing goals as efficiently as it could. As a result, upper management has tasked you to review the current organizational structure for efficiency and recommend needed changes. Your team notices the organizational chart has not been recently updated. To begin the task, your team must create an up-to-date organizational chart to determine the efficiency of the current structure. Then, you must create a new organizational chart that represents the recommended structural changes. You will then present recommendations and rationale to upper management. Complete the following tasks to prepare for your meeting with upper management. Select one team members company that he or she used to complete the Organizational Planning assignment. Identify the selected companys current organizational structure. Create anorganizational chart in Microsoft® PowerPoint® for the current structure of the selected company. Discuss,with your team, any structural changes or adaptations to the existing structures that you think should be recommended to improve that companys efficiency and effectiveness. Decide,as a team, what structural changes or adaptations should be recommended. Create an organizational chart in Microsoft® PowerPoint® for the recommended structure of the selected company. Justify your teams recommendations in a paper of no more than 1,050 words. If your team recommends that the company structure remain the same, defend your decision. Based on the teams decision, your paper must also include the following: • Describe the work that must be completed to accomplish the recommended changes or adaptations. If no changes are recommended, explain what work is currently being done and why it is successful. • Describe how the work could be done most effectively. Would the work be completed by individuals, teams, or a combination of both? If no changes are recommended, explain how the work is being completed and why the current method is successful. • Justify the selection for how the work could be done and describe the approach that should be used. Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment. MGT 521 Week 4 Individual Knowledge Check 1 . Which of the following describes the leadership style in which a leader tends to centralize authority, dictate work methods, make unilateral decisions, and limit employee participation? • A. Cultural style • B. Autocratic style • C. Democratic style • D. Laissez-faire style 2 . The ________ style of leadership describes a leader who tends to value employee participation, including in such areas as decision making and deciding on work methods and goals. • A. cultural • B. autocratic • C. democratic • D. laissez-faire 3 . Which of the following describes the leadership style in which the leader generally gives the group complete freedom to make decisions and complete the work in whatever way it sees fit? • A. Cultural style • B. Autocratic style • C. Democratic style • D. Laissez-faire style 4 . The ________ model proposed that the results of the least-preferred coworker questionnaire could determine whether someone was relationship or task oriented, and these results would determine effectiveness of group performance. • A. Fiedler contingency • B. situational leadership • C. leader participation • D. path-goal 5 . Which leadership model proposed that the final component in the model is the four stages of follower readiness, and different levels of follower readiness call for a different leader–follower relationship? • A. Path-goal model • B. The Fiedler model • C. Charismatic-visionary leadership • D. Situational leadership 6 . According to Hersey and Blanchard, a low task–high relationship situation calls for the ________ leadership style. • A. delegating • B. telling • C. participating • D. selling 7 . When Alan Jackman got promoted as the head of the sales team at Mac Software Inc., he chose three of his closest friends in the team to form the core sales group with him. Which of the following predictions would be consistent with the leader-member exchange theory? • A. Such an arrangement eventually becomes unstable. • B. Job satisfaction is more likely to be higher for the team members who are not a part of the core group. • C. Team members who are not a part of Alans core group are actually far more competent than his friends who form the core team. • D. Alans core group will engage in more helping or citizenship behaviors at work. 8 . Which of the following is an accurate statement about managers transferring into the role of effective team leaders? • A. They will instinctively know how to effectively lead a team to success. • B. They will be able to apply command-and-control type functions that were used in the past. • C. They may try to retain too much control at a time when team members need more autonomy. • D. Team leadership will come naturally to them. 9 . Rachel Keller’s colleagues and subordinates have a high regard for her. They know that Rachel can help them meet their goals, and she is always willing to reward them when they do. What her subordinates like best about Rachel is that they know she appreciates their work by the team lunches she often holds. Which of the following best describes Rachel’s leadership style? • A. Transactional • B. Charismatic • C. Trait • D. Transformational 10 . Which of the following is the type of power a person has because of his or her level of authority in the business? • A. Legitimate power • B. Coercive power • C. Reward power • D. Expert power 11 . Sam Meyers manages a telemarketing call center. He has 20 employees working for him who are displeased with the way he yells and threatens to terminate them for what they see as small issues. Which kind of power is Sam using to get the job done? • A. Legitimate power • B. Coercive power • C. Reward power • D. Referent power 12 . Marsha Lewis is the manager at a fast-food establishment, managing a staff of 25 employees. Many of her staff members are extremely impressed with how she handles her work, and they emulate Marsha’s behaviors and actions in working with others. The team believes Marsha is fair and understanding, and she always promotes from within when employees have been performing well. Which two sources of power does Marsha use in this example? • A. Reward and referent power • B. Referent and coercive power • C. Expert and reward power • D. Referent and expert power 13 . What performance measure considers the efficiency and effectiveness of employees? • A. Employee productivity • B. Organizational citizenship behavior • C. Job satisfaction • D. Turnover 14 . What aggregate measure allows managers to assess how happy an employee is with the many different factors at his or her job? • A. Employee happiness • B. Workplace misbehavior • C. Employee productivity • D. Job satisfaction 15 . When an employee volunteers to run a canned food drive, this is an example of • A. employee productivity • B. organizational citizenship behavior • C. employee happiness • D. job satisfaction 16 . In the Big Five Model of personality, an employee who is good-natured and highly cooperative, would be referred to as scoring high in the trait of ________. • A. extraversion • B. agreeableness • C. conscientiousness • D. emotional stability 17 . In the Big Five Model of personality, conscientiousness refers to ________. • A. the degree to which someone is calm, enthusiastic, and secure (positive) or tense, nervous, depressed, and insecure (negative) • B. the degree to which someone is sociable, talkative, assertive, and comfortable in relationships with others • C. the degree to which someone is reliable, responsible, and dependable • D. the degree of influence the individual believes he or she has over certain factors 18 . Susan is often described as being fascinated by many things, including outdoor activities, inventive art exhibits, and books by up-and-coming authors. According to the Big Five Model of personality, Susan would be described as ________. • A. conscientious • B. extraverted • C. emotionally stable • D. open to experience 19 . ________ theory gauges whether a person’s behavior shows distinctiveness, consensus, and consistency. • A. Perception • B. Behavior • C. Attribution • D. Social contrast 20 . Garth manages a team of 5 salespeople. One of the salespeople, Robert, has been late to work for the past few days. If Garth attributes Robert’s tardiness to a lack of caring about his job versus Robert having to drop his wife at work, Garth is using the________. • A. fundamental attribution error • B. self-serving bias • C. assumption of similarity • D. halo effect 21 . At work today, Tanya received the good news that the team she was part of secured a winning bid for her company to serve as the architect partner for a new shopping mall. Tanya also received the bad news that the transmission on her car must be replaced. Tanya credits the good news to her ability to complete work on time and the bad news to the poor craftsmanship of her car. Tanya is exhibiting a(n) ________. • A. assumed similarity • B. stereotyping • C. fundamental attribution error • D. self-serving bias To purchase this material link assignmentcloud/MGT-521/MGT-521-Complete-Week-4 For more details visit assignmentcloud
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