Ian Is a Manager of a Local Company

question 181

Multiple Choice

Ian is a manager of a local company. He holds departmental meetings daily in order to get input from the employees about ways to improve quality and safety. Ian often works alongside his employees and eats with them at lunch. All employees work as a team to produce the best product possible. Ian's management style would be classified as

• A) Type A.
• B) Type B.
• C) Theory X.
• D) Theory Y.

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Definitions:

Piaget's Cognitive-Developmental

A theory by Jean Piaget that outlines how children's ability to think and understand the world around them develops in stages as they grow.

Bronfenbrenner's Bioecological

A theoretical model proposing that human development is shaped by the interaction between individuals and their environments, including microsystems, mesosystems, exosystems, macrosystems, and the chronosystem.

Information Processing

The approach in psychology that studies how humans interpret, process, and respond to various stimuli using a model similar to computer processing.

Evolutionary Developmental

The study of how evolutionary processes guide the development of organisms, illustrating changes in development that lead to new forms and behaviors.