Alex Is a Company Manager Who Dictates Workplace Rules and Task

question 5

Multiple Choice

Alex is a company manager who dictates workplace rules and task assignments without giving employees much opportunity to voice their task preferences or workplace concerns.Alex best illustrates

• A) strengths-based selection.
• B) transformational leadership.
• C) 360-degree feedback.
• D) a directive leadership style.

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Definitions:

Fundamental Attribution Error

The tendency to overestimate the influence of personal traits and underestimate the effects of situations when explaining others' behaviors.

Milgram's Research

A series of social psychology experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram, which measured the willingness of participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience.

Obedience

is the act of following orders or instructions from an authority figure, often studied in psychology as a behavior of compliance.

Groupthink

A psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people, where the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome.