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What is a leader?
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The owner of a company
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A person who follows the commands of other people
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Someone who has followers
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Someone who cannot persuade other people to do things
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Which of the following is a trait of a leader?
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The ability to alienate, confuse or make other people angry
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Vision, and the ability to guide others towards making that vision a reality
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Avoiding decisions that may change things
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Being able to only find fault in other people and their ideas
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Which roles do leaders play in their organisations?
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Set the strategic vision and goals of the company
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Organising people and staffing issues to get the job done
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Set plans and budgets in the short-term goals of the company
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Bring about order and consistency in the company
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Leaders are born with different characteristics or traits from other people
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- True
- False
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An organisation is dominated by one central leader. This type of leadership is:
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Autocratic
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Democratic
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Collaborative
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Laissez-Faire
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Democratic leadership is characterised by...
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A leader's source of power being derived from their position in the organisation
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A general lack of leadership activity - followers are left to decide their own priorities and methods for undertaking work
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The leader is just another member of the group and has no more power than anyone else
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Encourages group participation and makes decision on the group opinion (majority rules)
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Contingency leadership says....
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Leaders and methods are the same no matter what type of situation occurs
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You need the right kind of leader for certain situations and need to change leadership as the situation changes
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All leaders have specific traits that they are born with and do not need to change with the situation
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That leadership is not as important as the situation and no formal leader needs to be n charge
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Transactional leadership is different from transformational leadership because...
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Transactional leaders initiate and drive organisational change while transformational leaders motivate followers to accomplish goals by clarifying roles and task requirements.
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Transactional leaders look for deviations from procedures and then take corrective action while transformational leaders are controversial as their leadership always involves change and conflict
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Transactional leaders articulate a vision while transformational leaders exchange rewards and promises to manage the delivery of organizational goals.
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Transactional leaders form emotional attachments with followers while transformational leaders intervene only if standards are not met.
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Transformational leaders...
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Motivate followers to accomplish goals by clarifying role and task requirements
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Have a laissez – faire approach to responsibilities and decisions
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Articulate a vision and align it with the followers' value systems
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Recognize only accomplishments.
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Why are values important in leadership?
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They help define problems and offers solutions that are acceptable to everyone
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They are not important in leadership and get in the way of making decisions
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They have minimal importance and only are used when we talk about CSR.
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Values only apply in a person’s personal life and have no application at work.
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Stakeholders are...
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Foreign governments
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The people who work for competing companies
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Everyone
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The people who work directly for an organisation
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The triple bottom line model is...
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Used to justify only following profit and ignoring everything else
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An examination of the environmental, social, and economic benefits using that to determine success
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A method that uses a SWOT analysis, a PESTEL analysis and Porters 5 forces to determine successful business models.
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An examination of cost cutting measures to increase profitability of an organization.
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Porter's five forces model examines:
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The strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, social cultural issues and threats facing an organization
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The political, economic, social, environmental and technologic factors facing an organization
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The strength of new competitors, the power of suppliers, the power of buyers, the threat of new products, and the strength of the industry
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The buying power of your company versus the selling power of your product.
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A SWOT analysis is useful because it:
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Examines your organizations current situation from two perspectives, Internal and external, while looking at strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
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Examines the strategy of the organization in relation to its place in the industry and examines the power of the suppliers, the competitors and the threat of new products
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Examines the organizations political, economic, sociocultural, technological, environmental and legal perspectives
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Examines the ability to focus on stakeholder involvement through a process of continuous quality management.
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Communication is a process. The process is from the sender to the receiver
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Encoding- transmission- decoding- feedback
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Decoding- transmission- feedback- encoding
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Feedback- decoding- transmission- encoding
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Transmission- encoding- decoding- feedback
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A clear vision and mission statement are not important to the success of an organization
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- True
- False
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To transmit messages clearly, leaders need to:
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Select an inappropriate communication channel
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Have long, wandering messages that leave a lot up to interpretation
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Use vague language that could insult people
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Have clear, concise, simple messages on appropriate channels.
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Assertive communication is...
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The best way to communicate.
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Structured in a way that the individual takes responsibility or “I” statements
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By using “We” and “the team” phrases
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Passive
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Effective listening means...
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Stop talking and remove distractions
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Pay attention to the purpose and the words used.
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Remain open, flexible and observant
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All of the answers
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None of the answers
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Barriers to communication come in many forms, including:
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Environmental Barriers (employees located in other places, bad equipment)
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Organizational Barriers (command chain, formal reporting structure)
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Individual differences (cultural issues, differences in gender)
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All of the answers
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None of the answers
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In conflict management, when should a leader use compromise management style?
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In a situation that calls for quick, decisive action.
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In a situation where parties of equal power level are committed to different goals and cannot agree.
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In a situation where the leader finds out they are wrong.
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For trivial and unimportant issues.
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Effective decisions need to be effectively communicated.
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- True
- False
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The general decision making model has four phases. Which of the following is NOT one of the phases?
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The Input phase.
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The Processing phase.
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The Output phase.
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The Decoding phase.
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Autocratic leaders often create a great deal of personal friction between people
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- True
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Collaborative decision making is
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A decision making process where a leader shares their formal decision making power.
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A decision making process where the leader does not make the final decision, but a person under the leader has the power delegated to them.
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A decision making process where the leaders have no formal power over the process, but has to negotiate with others to make the decision happen.
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The leader exercises complete control of the process and does not need any outside help or advice to make decision.
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Delegated decision making is:
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A decision making process where a leader shares their formal decision making power.
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A decision making process where the leader does not make the final decision, but a person under the leader has the power to make decisions for the leader.
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A decision making proves where the leaders have no formal power over the process, but has to negotiate with others to make the decision happen.
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The leader exercises complete control of the process and does not need any outside help or advice to make decision.
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Negotiated decision making is:
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A decision making process where a leader shares their formal decision making power.
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A decision making process where the leader does not make the final decision, but a person under the leader has the power to make decisions for the leader.
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A decision making proves where the leaders has the opportunity to get a ‘win- lose’ or a ‘win-win’ outcomes.
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The leader exercises complete control of the process and does not need any outside help or advice to make decision.
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Which of the following is a barrier to effective decision making?
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A lack of budget
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A lack of material or equipment
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Staffing shortages or limitations
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All of the answers
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None of the answers
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Which type of mental barrier to decision making is the following: A leader has heard that global warming is a hoax. He is determined to keep on that idea even when people show him evidence that he is wrong.
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Sunk cost
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Status quo
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Framing
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Anchoring
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The charismatic leader possesses the following traits:
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Arrogance
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Low self-esteem
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A lack of ability
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All of the answers
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None of the answers
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Which of the following is NOT one of the Porter's five competitive forces?
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Bargaining power of suppliers.
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Threats of new entrants and barriers to entry.
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Threats of substitutes.
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Threats of technological advances.
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As per Porter and Kramer (2006) what are the main reasons that an organisation should consider their corporate social responsibility obligations :
i. Moral obligation: To “do the right thing”
ii. Sustainable development: Focused on environment
iii. License to operate: Since corporations need approval to do business
iv. Reputation: In terms of the company’s image, brand, morale, or stock value.
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i,ii and iii only
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ii ,iii and iv only
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i and ii only
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all of the answers
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According to Earley and Mosakowski (2004), what are the three main elements to cultural intelligence?
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The Mind (cognitive), The body (physical) , The Heart (emotional)
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Cultural Diversity ,Equal Opportunity, Transparency
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Social Obligation ,Moral Obligation ,Cultural Intelligence
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Ability to Observe, Ability to understand, Ability to survive
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i.___________is made up of geographically or organisationally dispersed members
who share a common purpose & are linked primarily through advanced information
& telecommunication technologies
ii. ____________ are work teams made up of culturally diverse members who live &
work in different countries & coordinate some part of their activities on a global basis
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Decisive team, Hierarchic team
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Integrative team, Job-centred team
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Virtual team, Global team
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Task Oriented team, People Oriented team
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Which of the following is NOT one of the four main qualities that are important for an authentic leadership as per Goffee and Jones (2005) ?
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Manage the perception others have of you
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Know yourself and others
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Use where you come from
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Develop action plans
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Which of the following statement reflects the principle of great man theory?
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A list of the key things that a leader should do to be great.
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Refers to the notion that people are born leaders
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Is concerned about the small details and how to increase productivity
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Translate vision into something tangible
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Theory Y assumes which of the following?
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People are committed to organisational activities.
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People achieve little satisfaction from work.
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People are poorly motivated.
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People seek to avoid work.
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Leadership is the ability to:
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influence others.
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empower, motivate and inspire their followers to achieve organizational goals.
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enable others to contribute towards the effectiveness and success of the organization.
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all of the answers
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Blake and Mouton’s Managerial Grid has all of the following management styles
EXCEPT:
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Country club Management
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Impoverished Management
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Middle-of-the-road Management
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Democratic Management
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i._________, are developed over a lifetime and are a result of education and
experience.
ii._________ is the code of principles and values that governs the behavior of a person
or group with respect to what is right or wrong
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Morality, motivational goals
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Values, Ethics
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Leaders, Authoritarian
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Cognitive, laissez faire
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