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Leadership 101 Practice Test: Participative Management and Leading Teams 2
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Leadership 101 Practice Test: Participative Management and Leading Teams 2
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1. Because the French are argumentative, they expect their leaders to involve them in decision making.
2. To be effective, teams must have right power and authority to accomplish its task and implement its ideas.
3. Leaders should closely monitor employees after they delegate a task and make sure that they pull back the task if the employee makes a mistake.
4. The primary role of team leaders is to set goals and make decisions regarding how to implement them.
5. In self-guided correction, team members monitor and correct their own behavior.
6. In order to build employee autonomy, once they delegate a task, leaders should leave their followers alone until the task is completed.
7. In the U.S, low power distance facilitates participation.
8. Self-managed teams do not need to coordinate their activities and decisions with others in the organization.
9. IBM
10. Although the Japanese culture is high on power distance, the country has a tradition of employee participation in decision making.
11. An underlying factor that may prevent managers from delegating is the personality traits of their followers.
12. Because followers
13. Building effective teams is relatively quick once you pick the right members
14. Because of collectivism, Mexican employees often expect to participate in decision making.
15. Self-leadership is the process of leading people to lead themselves.
16. In order for participation to be successfully implemented, it is important that followers be committed to its implementation. However, leadership commitment is less essential.
17. Participation can only succeed if both leaders and followers are committed to it.
18. New roles for leaders in teams include continuing to do actual work.
19. Genencor International managers believe that employee participation programs often cost too much.
20. Participation is on a continuum from traditional organizational to team-based organizations.
21. The concept of participation is a relatively new idea in leadership and management.
22. Most organizations use a combination of traditional structures and teams.
23. One of the primary reasons leaders fail to delegate is that they feel their followers are not ready.
24. Participation should be used when the task is complex, there is no time pressure, the organization is ready, and employee commitment is needed.
25. Teams often have assigned leaders whereas groups share leadership.