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Chapter 10: Leadership, Followership, and Management

Questions

1. Which leadership style works best when the members of the group have the same level of education as the leader and the leader performs the same tasks as the group members?

1. Laissez-faire

2. Democratic

3. Participative

4. Authoritarian

2. Which leadership style works best with groups whose members have a relatively equal status and who know each other well because they have worked together for an extended period?

1. Laissez-faire

2. Democratic

3. Nondirective

4. Authoritarian

3. People who work under which leadership style usually harbor hostile feelings that they are fearful to express, use passive-aggressive techniques to try to even the playing field, and feel oppressed and unable to use their full potential as a worker?

1. Laissez-faire

2. Democratic

3. Nondirective

4. Authoritarian

4. Which type of leader often allows the group to make its own decisions without regard to the task at hand and ultimately may not achieve the goals the group was organized for in the first place?

1. High relationship–low task

2. High task–low relationship

3. High task–high relationship

4. Low task–low relationship

5. Various forms of punishment, ranging from verbal putdowns to poor performance evaluations that are used to determine pay raises, are used by which type of leader?

1. High relationship–low task

2. High task–low relationship

3. High task–high relationship

4. Low task–low relationship

6. Which theory recognizes that multiple intangibles exist whenever people interact and that factors such as sense of meaning, creativity, inspiration, and vision are involved in creating a sense of mission that exceeds good interpersonal relationships and rewards?

1. Trait theory

2. Behavior theory

3. Situational theory

4. Transformational theory

7. The American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics for Nurses is directed toward promoting and maintaining which quality of the nursing profession?

1. Integrity

2. Critical thinking

3. Problem-solving

4. Active listening

8. In which approach is it expected that providing the right incentives, primarily money, will increase employee productivity?

1. Time–motion theory

2. Human interaction theory

3. Situational theory

4. Transformational theory

9. Managers who favored which theory were required to develop a different set of management skills, including counseling effectively, boosting motivation, using effective leadership skills, and maintaining productive communication?

1. Time–motion theory

2. Human interaction theory

3. Situational theory

4. Transformational theory

10. In the health-care delivery setting, which of the following can be defined as the process of decision-making at the top levels of an organization that ensures the organization achieves its goals and produces high-quality outcomes by defining expectations, delegating power to key personnel, and overseeing the administrative process?

1. Leadership

2. Management

3. Governance

4. Ownership

11. Which type of budgeting is built on the belief that traditional methods of budgeting are too simple to account for all the variations in the budgeting process and cannot be adapted to ongoing changes?

1. Historical budget

2. Incremental budget

3. Zero-based budget

4. Performance-based budget

12. Many home health-care agencies use which model for assigning an RN to work with an individual or family for the duration of services rendered?

1. Functional nursing

2. Team nursing

3. Primary care nursing

4. Modular nursing

13. Important aspects of which nursing model include relying on unlicensed assistive personnel for the provision of direct care, grouping clients with similar needs, developing relative intensity measures, and emphasizing team concepts in small groups that remain constant?

1. Functional nursing

2. Team nursing

3. Primary care nursing

4. Modular nursing

14. Which legislative act is a federal law that is being written to improve nurse–patient ratios in hospitals that receive Medicare funds?

1. Affordable Care Act

2. Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act

3. Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act

4. Emergency Treatment and Active Labor Act

15. With its emphasis on access to care, which legislative act is projected to inject some 22 million newly insured clients into the health-care system between 2019 and 2024?

1. Affordable Care Act

2. Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act

3. Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act

4. Emergency Treatment and Active Labor Act

Questions, Answers, and Rationales

1. Which leadership style works best when the members of the group have the same level of education as the leader and the leader performs the same tasks as the group members?

1. Laissez-faire

2. Democratic

3. Participative

4. Authoritarian

Page: 4

2. Which leadership style works best with groups whose members have a relatively equal status and who know each other well because they have worked together for an extended period?

1. Laissez-faire

2. Democratic

3. Nondirective

4. Authoritarian

Page: 4

3. People who work under which style of leadership usually harbor hostile feelings that they are fearful to express, use passive-aggressive techniques to try to even the playing field, and feel oppressed and unable to use their full potential as a worker?

1. Laissez-faire

2. Democratic

3. Nondirective

4. Authoritarian

Page: 4

4. Which type of leader often allows the group to make its own decisions without regard to the task at hand and ultimately may not achieve the goals the group was organized for in the first place?

1. High relationship–low task

2. High task–low relationship

3. High task–high relationship

4. Low task–low relationship

Page: 7

5. Various forms of punishment, ranging from verbal putdowns to poor performance evaluations that are used to determine pay raises, are used by which type of leader?

1. High relationship–low task

2. High task–low relationship

3. High task–high relationship

4. Low task–low relationship

Page: 7

6. Which theory recognizes that multiple intangibles exist whenever people interact and that factors such as sense of meaning, creativity, inspiration, and vision are involved in creating a sense of mission that exceeds good interpersonal relationships and rewards?

1. Trait theory

2. Behavior theory

3. Situational theory

4. Transformational theory

Page: 9

7. The American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics for Nurses is directed toward promoting and maintaining which quality of the nursing profession?

1. Integrity

2. Critical thinking

3. Problem-solving

4. Active listening

Page: 16

8. In which approach, is it expected that providing the right incentives, primarily money, will increase employee productivity?

1. Time–motion theory

2. Human interaction theory

3. Situational theory

4. Transformational theory

Page: 22

9. Managers who favored which theory were required to develop a different set of management skills, including counseling effectively, boosting motivation, using effective leadership skills, and maintaining productive communication?

1. Time–motion theory

2. Human interaction theory

3. Situational theory

4. Transformational theory

Page: 24

10. In the health-care delivery setting, which of the following can be defined as the process of decision-making at the top levels of an organization that ensures the organization achieves its goals and produces high-quality outcomes by defining expectations, delegating power to key personnel, and overseeing the administrative process?

1. Leadership

2. Management

3. Governance

4. Ownership

Page: 26

11. Which type of budgeting is built on the belief that traditional methods of budgeting are too simple to account for all the variations in the budgeting process and cannot be adapted to ongoing changes?

1. Historical budget

2. Incremental budget

3. Zero-based budget

4. Performance-based budget

Page: 30

12. Many home health-care agencies use which model for assigning an RN to work with an individual or family for the duration of services rendered?

1. Functional nursing

2. Team nursing

3. Primary care nursing

4. Modular nursing

Page: 48

13. Important aspects of which nursing model include relying on unlicensed assistive personnel for the provision of direct care, grouping clients with similar needs, developing relative intensity measures, and emphasizing team concepts in small groups that remain constant?

1. Functional nursing

2. Team nursing

3. Primary care nursing

4. Modular nursing

Page: 48

14. Which legislative act is a federal law that is being written to improve nurse–patient ratios in hospitals that receive Medicare funds?

1. Affordable Care Act

2. Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act

3. Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act

4. Emergency Treatment and Active Labor Act

Page: 33

15. With its emphasis on access to care, which legislative act is projected to inject some 22 million newly insured clients into the health-care system between 2019 and 2024?

1. Affordable Care Act

2. Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act

3. Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act

4. Emergency Treatment and Active Labor Act

Page: 32