Test Bank: The New Leadership Challenge ; Creating the
Future of Nursing 6th Edition by Grossman - Ch. 1-11,
9781719640411, with Rationales
Leader - ANSWER: selects and assumes role:
Manager - ANSWER: ia assigned ot appointed to role
management - ANSWER: is a problem-oriented process with similarities to the nursing process
Leadership - ANSWER: ia a way of behaving: it is the ability to cause others to respond, not because
they have to, but b/c they want to
Managers four functions - ANSWER: Planning- What is to be done
Organizing- How it is to be done
Directing- Who is to do it
Controlling- when and how it is to be done
Theories of Management - ANSWER: Traditional (scientific) theory
Behavorial (human-interaction) theory
Systems Theory
Contingency (motivational) theory
Traditional (scientific) theory - ANSWER: high productivity level expected from worker
Behavorial (human-interaction) theory - ANSWER: considers the workers needs
Systems theory - ANSWER: -Decisions are based on how others will be affected
-considering the parts of a system as a whole
contingency(motivational) theory - ANSWER: examines what motivates workers to be productive and
effective in completing the work
3 types of management styles - ANSWER: autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire
Autocratic manager - ANSWER: uses an authoritarian approach to direct activities of others
democratic manager - ANSWER: people-oriented and emphasizes effective group functioning
laissez faire manger - ANSWER: maintains a permissive climate with little direction or control exerted
Theories of Leadership - ANSWER: Contingency leadership
Situational leadership
interactional leadership
transactional/transformational leadership
Contingency leadership - ANSWER: leadership flexible enough to address varying situations
situational leadership - ANSWER: situation is analyzed and leadership style is selected that will best
address issue
Interactional leadership - ANSWER: development of trust in relationship
Future of Nursing 6th Edition by Grossman - Ch. 1-11,
9781719640411, with Rationales
Leader - ANSWER: selects and assumes role:
Manager - ANSWER: ia assigned ot appointed to role
management - ANSWER: is a problem-oriented process with similarities to the nursing process
Leadership - ANSWER: ia a way of behaving: it is the ability to cause others to respond, not because
they have to, but b/c they want to
Managers four functions - ANSWER: Planning- What is to be done
Organizing- How it is to be done
Directing- Who is to do it
Controlling- when and how it is to be done
Theories of Management - ANSWER: Traditional (scientific) theory
Behavorial (human-interaction) theory
Systems Theory
Contingency (motivational) theory
Traditional (scientific) theory - ANSWER: high productivity level expected from worker
Behavorial (human-interaction) theory - ANSWER: considers the workers needs
Systems theory - ANSWER: -Decisions are based on how others will be affected
-considering the parts of a system as a whole
contingency(motivational) theory - ANSWER: examines what motivates workers to be productive and
effective in completing the work
3 types of management styles - ANSWER: autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire
Autocratic manager - ANSWER: uses an authoritarian approach to direct activities of others
democratic manager - ANSWER: people-oriented and emphasizes effective group functioning
laissez faire manger - ANSWER: maintains a permissive climate with little direction or control exerted
Theories of Leadership - ANSWER: Contingency leadership
Situational leadership
interactional leadership
transactional/transformational leadership
Contingency leadership - ANSWER: leadership flexible enough to address varying situations
situational leadership - ANSWER: situation is analyzed and leadership style is selected that will best
address issue
Interactional leadership - ANSWER: development of trust in relationship
