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Multiple Choice $($MC$)$ QUESTIONs $($Qs$).$ This section contains $25$ multiple$-$choice questions $(25$ MCQs$).$

Approximately $2$ minutes per question tan additional time $(10$ minutes$)$ for transferring answers to the answer sheet. Total time for the midterm is $60$ minutes.

Please, answer all questions, AND TRANSFER ALL ANSWERS to the answer sheet where you write your name and ID number.

Empowering employees often leads to

A$)$ increased employee motivation and commitment.

B$)$ decreased overall employee performance.

C$)$ dangerous working conditions.

D$)$ increased time needed for day$-$to$-$day supervision.

E$)$ a decrease in employee interactions.

Recognizing, admitting, and learning from mistakes are characteristics of a leader with

A$)$ high emotional intelligence.

B$)$ low intuition.

C$)$ high affiliation orientation.

D$)$ high empathy.

E$)$ low task orientation.

A transformational manager engages and empowers subordinates to take personal responsibility for solving problems through

A$)$ coercive power.

B$)$ intellectual stimulation.

C$)$ referent power.

D$)$ virtual stimulation.

E$)$ transactional leadership.

Lana motivates her subordinates to focus their efforts on the needs of coworkers and customers, rather than just their own personal goals. She is demonstrating $q,$ leadership.

A$)$ transactional

B$)$ transformational

C$)$ charismatic

D$)$ intrinsic

E$)$ extrinsic

Leadership substitutes can

A$)$ increase organizational efficiency.

B$)$ increase competition between leaders.

C$)$ decrease organizational effectiveness,

D$)$ minimize the value of leaders,

E$)$ increase the demands on managers' time.

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Salma is very clear in defining for his subordinates the incentives avallable to them for different levels of performance. She makes sure they understand the path toward receiving incentives and follows through on revarting them when they meet those goals. Salma eshilbits the leadership.

A$)$ path$-$goal

B$)$ transactional

C$)$ equity

D$)$ motivator$-$hygiene

B$)$ hierarchy of needs

Employees at Awasl share the belief that every product defect is the responsibility of the entire organization to resolve, regardless of which team may have caused the defect. This shared belief is an aspect of Awasl's organizational

A$)$ stricture.

B$)$ culture.

C$)$ design.

D$)$ strategy

E$)$ enrichment.

To obtain scarce resources given a rapidly changing and uncertain external environment, what would you recommend managers do$?$

A$)$ Establish rentrictive norms to guide employee activities.

B$)$ Centralize authority.

C$)$ Use a mechanistic form of organizing.

D$)$ Maintain control of employee activities.

E$)$ Create an entrepreneurial culture.

Task $$ is the degree to which programmed solutions are available to people or functions to solve the problems they encounter.

A$)$ flexibility

B$)$ specialization

C$)$ autonomy

D$)$ variety

E$)$ analyzability

$$ is the process by which managers decide how to divide tasks into a specific division of labor.

A$)$ Job design

B$)$ Job enlargement

C$)$ Span of control

D$)$ Task analyzability

E$)$ Job integration

$$ is increasing the number of different tasks in a given job by changing the division of labor.

A$)$ Job simplification

B$)$ Job enlargement

C$)$ Job enrichment

D$)$ Span of control

E$)$ Job autonomy

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ii$)$ According to the expectancy theory, the term $q,$ refers to how desirable each of the outcom avaliable from an organization is to a person.

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D$)$ goal

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According to Maslow's hierarchy, a company is addressing the need for $$ when it organizes

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D$)$ belongingnes

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Acrerding to Heraberg's theory,

A$)$ molivator $$ needs refer to the nature and challenge of one's work.

b$)$ expectancy

C$)$ instrumental

D$)$ hystene

B$)$ vaten!

According to MeClelland, an employee with a strong desire to perform tasks well and meet personal standards for excellence has the need for

A$)$ affillation.

b$)$ belongingaces.

C$)$ achlevement.

D$)$ selfactualization.

ii$)$ equity.

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