Why Is It Important to Understand the Drawbacks of Technology

question 36

Multiple Choice

Why is it important to understand the drawbacks of technology in the workplace?

• A) to learn to avoid electronic communication whenever possible
• B) to understand that misinterpretation, employee surveillance, and information overload can hinder your professional excellence
• C) to make sure that no one has access to your personal information
• D) to create a workplace culture that is not greatly influenced by electronic communication

Understand how situational factors according to House's Path-Goal Theory affect leadership effectiveness.

Explain the implications of participative leadership and under what conditions it is most beneficial.

Recognize the role of an LPC score in Fiedler's Contingency Theory.

Identify leadership theories that hinge on task, employee characteristics, or other situational factors.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

An indicator of how much the values in a dataset spread out or differ from each other.

Normal Curve

A bell-shaped curve that represents the distribution of many types of data where most occurrences take place in the middle of the range.

Probability

The measure or estimation of how likely it is that an event will occur, expressed as a number between 0 (impossible) and 1 (certain).

Median

A statistical measure that represents the middle value in a given set of data when it is arranged in numerical order.