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,Chapter 1: Nursing Leadership and
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ManagementMULTIPLE CHOICE
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1. According to Henri Fayol, the functions of planning, organizing, coordinating, and
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a. Roles
b. Process
c. Functions
d. Taxonomy

ANS: B, The management process includes planning, organizing, coordinating, and controlling. Management roles include
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bh information processing, interpersonal relationships, and decision making. Management functions include planning, organizing,
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bh staffing, directing, coordinating, reporting, and budgeting. A taxonomy is a system that orders principles into a grouping or
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2. Which of the following is considered a decisional managerial role?
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a. Disseminator
b. Figurehead
c. Leader
d. Entrepreneur


ANS: D, The decisional managerial roles include entrepreneur, disturbance handler, allocator of resources, and negotiator.
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Theinformation processing managerial roles include monitor, disseminator, and spokesperson. The interpersonal managerial
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roles include figurehead, leader, and liaison.
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3. A nurse manager meets regularly with other nurse managers, participates on the
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bh organizations committees, and attends meetings sponsored by professional organizations in
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bh orderto manage relationships. These activities are considered which function of a manager?
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a. Informing
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c. Monitoring
d. Networking

ANS: D, The role functions to manage relationships are networking, supporting, developing and mentoring, managing conflict
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,bh and team building, motivating and inspiring, recognizing, and rewarding. The role functions to manage the work are planning
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bh and organizing, problem solving, clarifying roles and objectives, informing, monitoring, consulting, and delegating.
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4. A nurse was recently promoted to a middle-level manager position. The nurses title
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bh wouldmost likely be which of the following?
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b. Director
c. Vice president of patient care services
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ANS: B, A middle-level manager is called a director. A low managerial- level job is called the first-line manager. A nurse in
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anexecutive level role is called a chief nurse executive or vice president of patient care services.
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5. A nurse manager who uses Frederick Taylors scientific management approach, would most
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ANS: C, The area of focus for scientific management is labor productivity. In bureaucratic theory, efficiency is achieved
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through impersonal relations within a formal structure and is based on positional authority. Administrative principle theory
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consists of principles of management that are relevant to any organization.
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6. According to Vrooms Theory of Motivation, force: bh bh bh bh bh bh




a. is the perceived possibility that the goal will be achieved.
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b. describes the amount of effort one will exert to reach ones goal. bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh




c. describes people who have free will but choose to comply with orders they are given. bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh bh




d. is a naturally forming social group that can become a contributor to an organization.
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ANS: B, According to Vrooms Theory of Motivation, Force describes the amount of effort one will exert to reach ones goal.
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bh Valence speaks to the level of attractiveness or unattractiveness of the goal. Expectancy is the perceived possibility that the
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goal will be achieved. Vrooms Theory of Motivation can be demonstrated in the form of an equation: Force = Valence
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bh Expectancy (Vroom, 1964). The theory proposes that this equation can help to predict the motivation, or force, of an
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individual as described by Vroom.
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7. According to R. N. Lussier, motivation: bh bh bh bh bh




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c. is determined by others choices.
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ANS: D, Motivation is a process that occurs internally to influence and direct our behavior in order to satisfy needs.
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Motivation is not explicitly demonstrated by people, but rather it is interpreted from their behavior. Motivation is whatever
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8. According to R. N. Lussier, there are content motivation theories and process
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bh motivationtheories. Which of the following is considered a process motivation theory?
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c. Existence-relatedness-growth theory bh