Nipurna Is a High School Guidance Counselor

question 146

Multiple Choice

Nipurna is a high school guidance counselor.Nipurna is well liked by the staff and students whom she supervises.She recognizes that they have excellent problem-solving skills and are committed to excellence.She lets the people she supervises assume as much responsibility as they are capable of handling.It would appear that she

• A) takes a Theory Z approach to management.
• B) uses ideas from scientific management.
• C) believes in McGregor's approach to managing people.
• D) uses the qualitative perspective of management.
• E) is applying principles from management science.

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Definitions:

Mental Set

A cognitive tendency to approach situations in a fixed way based on previous experiences, potentially inhibiting problem-solving.

Confirmation Bias

The bias towards selecting, decoding, favoring, and reminiscing over data that corroborates one's prior beliefs or conjectures.

Perceptual Set

A tendency to perceive or notice some aspects of the available sensory data and ignore others.

Grammatical Rules

The structured guidelines that govern the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language.