Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing, Theory and Application 8th Edition-Bessie L Marquis - Huston
Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing, Theory and Application 8th Edition-Bessie L Marquis - Huston
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Chapter 03 Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing, Theory and Application 8th Edition
Complete Chapter Questions With Answers
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| 1. | What concept is servant leadership based upon? | |
| A) | Trusting and valuing employees | |
| B) | Genuinely liking your colleagues | |
| C) | A laissez-faire style of leadership | |
| D) | A dynamic leadership charisma | |
| Ans: | A | |
| Feedback: | ||
| These managers, termed servant leaders, put serving others, including employees, customers, and the community, as the number-one priority. In addition, servant leaders foster a service inclination in others that promotes collaboration, teamwork, and collective activism. The servant leader is not necessarily associated with the concepts identified in the other options. | ||
| 2. | What is the critical leadership skill when attempting to build a cooperative and effective team? | |
| A) | Showing their true feelings | |
| B) | Empathizing with followers | |
| C) | Identifying existing emotions in themselves and others | |
| D) | Manipulating the emotions of all involved to achieve stated goals | |
| Ans: | C | |
| Feedback: | ||
| Theorists studying emotional intelligence posit that the ability to identify emotions in themselves and in others is a critical ingredient of leaders, enabling them to build a cooperative and effective team. While the other options may have value, they do not represent the critical skill related to team building. | ||
| 3. | Which principle will help increase the likelihood that followers do not mislead their leader? | |
| A) | Support the followers’ right to disagree | |
| B) | Rely only on facts and discount intuition | |
| C) | Discourage acceptance until the facts are proved | |
| D) | Identify who to rely upon and who not to listen to | |
| Ans: | A | |
| Feedback: | ||
| There is no guarantee that followers will not mislead leaders, but adhering to certain principles, such as making sure that followers are allowed to disagree, will guard against this happening. The remaining options are flawed in the principles they support. | ||
| 4. | Which statement regarding the characteristics of a good leader is true? | |
| A) | They are totally trustworthy | |
| B) | They may have character flaws | |
| C) | They are by nature good intentioned | |
| D) | Charisma is their strongest attribute | |
| Ans: | B | |
| Feedback: | ||
| Leaders may be deceitful and trustworthy, greedy and generous, and cowardly and brave. To assume that all good leaders are good people is foolhardy and makes us blind to the human condition. It is only when we recognize and manage our failings that leaders achieve greatness. | ||
| 5. | To decrease overtime, the manager of a surgical unit offers nurses who get their work finished on time for an entire 2-month period an extra day off with pay at regular time. What is this an example of? | |
| A) | Bribing nurses | |
| B) | Quantum leadership | |
| C) | Principal agent theory | |
| D) | Servant leadership | |
| Ans: | C | |
| Feedback: | ||
| Principal agent theory suggests that followers may have an informational (expertise or knowledge) advantage over the leader as well as their own preferences, which may deviate from that of the principal. This may lead to a misalignment of goals. To influence the agent, the principal offers an incentive that corrects excessive overtime. The remaining options do not represent the example offered. | ||
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