For Empowerment to Succeed, Managers Should

question 79

Multiple Choice

For empowerment to succeed, managers should

• A) micromanage their teams and delegate as much work as possible.
• B) ensure that communication flows top down from senior management.
• C) help their teams ensure that communication flows in both directions.
• D) hold frequent meetings to constantly supervise the progress of the team.
• E) ensure that a team shares information only after it receives approval.

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Definitions:

Thoughts

Mental processes or ideas that occur in the mind, ranging from conscious reasoning to subconscious beliefs.

Conditioned Stimulus

A formerly neutral stimulus that, following its pairing with an unconditioned stimulus, ends up provoking a conditioned response.

Unconditioned Response

A natural, automatic reaction to a stimulus that occurs without prior learning or conditioning.

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with an unconditioned stimulus, is able to elicit a conditioned response on its own.