Jim Is the Daytime Supervisor for an Automobile Assembly Line

question 34

Multiple Choice

Jim is the daytime supervisor for an automobile assembly line. He supervises forty-five workers who perform routine jobs that require minimal training. Which of the following suggests that Jim follows the transactional model of leadership?

• A)Jim has a certain idea about how he should behave as a leader and what he should do for his team of workers.
• B)Jim sets goals, monitors progress toward goal achievement, and rewards and punishes people for their level of goal accomplishment.
• C)Jim's leadership skills are most effective when applied to match the characteristics of the situation at hand.
• D)Jim wants to develop a partnership with his team illustrated by reciprocal influence, mutual trust, respect and liking, and a sense of common fates.
• E)Jim likes to provide the guidance and support needed by employees and ties meaningful rewards to completion of objectives.

Conceptualize non-excludability and non-rivalry as defining characteristics of public goods.

Apply the principle of marginal social benefit being equal to the sum of individual marginal benefits in determining the efficient provision of public goods.

Understand how the free-rider problem affects the provision of public goods.

Analyze conditions under which public goods should be provided to enhance social welfare.

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Definitions:

Systems Of Belief

Complex frameworks consisting of philosophical, ethical, or theological ideas that guide individuals or groups in their understanding of the world and their behavior within it.

Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

A theory suggesting that the structure of a language influences its speakers' world view or cognition, often referred to as linguistic relativity.

Cultural Relativism

The principle that an individual's beliefs and activities should be understood by others in the context of that individual's own culture.

Cultural Pluralism

A societal approach that recognizes and appreciates the diversity of cultures within a community or nation while advocating for mutual respect and peaceful coexistence.