Steven Is a Manager with a Small Engineering Firm

question 96

Multiple Choice

Steven is a manager with a small engineering firm. Jack, who is one of two civil engineers that Steven supervises, has been having an attendance problem lately which severely impacts the productivity of the already small group of staff. Other employees are starting to resent Jack and as a result employee morale has declined as well. Steven would like to terminate Jack but it will take him several months to find a replacement and he can't afford to operate with just one civil engineer. However, if he keeps Jack he may lose other staff to competing firms. This scenario is an example of how ________ can impact the way employees are managed.

• A) organizational culture
• B) strategy
• C) employee concerns
• D) labor force trends
• E) company characteristics

Understand different types of power used by leaders and managers.

Recognize the characteristics and significance of servant and visionary leadership.

Distinguish between the bases of power and their applications within organizational settings.

Grasp the concept of empowerment and its importance in leadership.

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Definitions:

Printf Method

A method in programming, often seen in languages like C and Java, used for formatted output to console or a file.

Formatting Instructions

Guidelines or commands that specify how data should be presented or formatted, often used in programming to improve the readability or appearance of output.

System.out.println

A Java statement used to print a line of text to the console or output stream.

Arguments

Values or variables passed to a function or method when it is called, used within the function to perform operations or calculations.