LEADERSHIP ROLES AND
MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS IN
NURSING THEORY AND APPLICATION.
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
PASS 2026/2027
Which represents the management functions that are incorporated into management process?
A. Planning, directing, organizing, staffing, and transforming
B. Organizing, staffing, planning, empowering, and controlling
C. Inspiring, planning, staffing, directing, and evaluating
D. Planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling - ANS D. Planning, organizing,
staffing, directing, and controlling
Feedback: Management functions include planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and
controlling. These are
The manager of a care facility advocates traditional management science. What is this manager
most likely to prioritized?
A. Ensuring that workers are satisfied in the roles.
B. Identifying and addressing barriers to efficiency.
C. Empowering workers to make decisions independently.
D. Providing rewards for exceptional caring - ANS B. Identifying and addressing barriers to
efficiency.
Feedback: Classical, or traditional, management science focuses on production in the
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, workplace and on delineating organizational barriers to productivity and efficiency. Little
attention was given to worker job satisfaction, and workers were assumed to be motivated
solely by economic rewards. This management style tends to be more authoritarian than
empowering. Rewards are more likely to be conferred on workers who increase efficiency
rather than those who exemplify psychosocial concepts, such as caring.
Caregivers at a public health center believe that their manager adheres to theory X. What action
by the manager best confirms a suspicion?
A. The manager allocates rewards based on the outcome of the nurses work.
B. The manager collaborate with senior staff to set quarterly goals for the center.
C. The manager is difficult to access when there's a problem or crisis in the center
D. The manager insist on occupying nurses to community events and observing them closely -
ANS D. The manager insist on occupying nurses to community events and observing them
closely
Feedback: Theory X managers believe that their employees are basically lazy, need constant
supervision and direction, and are indifferent to organizational needs. Close scrutiny of
nurses' performance would suggest this perspective. Being inaccessible during a crisis is an
undesirable trait in a manager, but this does not directly suggest a Theory X perspective.
Collaboration and the distribution of rewards would be more closely associated with a
Theory Y approach, which is more optimistic.
Accreditors are scheduled to visit a hospital site, and staff members have been made aware of
what they will be assessing. What staff behavior would most clearly suggest the presence of the
Hawthorne effect?
A. The nurses avoid contact with the accreditors because they fear criticism
B. The nurses constantly improve their performance because they know it's being scrutinized
C. The manager temporarily adopt a leader ship role
D. The manager blames individual nurses for deficits identified in the accreditation report -
ANS B. The nurses constantly improve their performance because they know it's being
scrutinized
Feedback: The Hawthorne effect indicated that people respond to the fact that they are being
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MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS IN
NURSING THEORY AND APPLICATION.
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
PASS 2026/2027
Which represents the management functions that are incorporated into management process?
A. Planning, directing, organizing, staffing, and transforming
B. Organizing, staffing, planning, empowering, and controlling
C. Inspiring, planning, staffing, directing, and evaluating
D. Planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling - ANS D. Planning, organizing,
staffing, directing, and controlling
Feedback: Management functions include planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and
controlling. These are
The manager of a care facility advocates traditional management science. What is this manager
most likely to prioritized?
A. Ensuring that workers are satisfied in the roles.
B. Identifying and addressing barriers to efficiency.
C. Empowering workers to make decisions independently.
D. Providing rewards for exceptional caring - ANS B. Identifying and addressing barriers to
efficiency.
Feedback: Classical, or traditional, management science focuses on production in the
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, workplace and on delineating organizational barriers to productivity and efficiency. Little
attention was given to worker job satisfaction, and workers were assumed to be motivated
solely by economic rewards. This management style tends to be more authoritarian than
empowering. Rewards are more likely to be conferred on workers who increase efficiency
rather than those who exemplify psychosocial concepts, such as caring.
Caregivers at a public health center believe that their manager adheres to theory X. What action
by the manager best confirms a suspicion?
A. The manager allocates rewards based on the outcome of the nurses work.
B. The manager collaborate with senior staff to set quarterly goals for the center.
C. The manager is difficult to access when there's a problem or crisis in the center
D. The manager insist on occupying nurses to community events and observing them closely -
ANS D. The manager insist on occupying nurses to community events and observing them
closely
Feedback: Theory X managers believe that their employees are basically lazy, need constant
supervision and direction, and are indifferent to organizational needs. Close scrutiny of
nurses' performance would suggest this perspective. Being inaccessible during a crisis is an
undesirable trait in a manager, but this does not directly suggest a Theory X perspective.
Collaboration and the distribution of rewards would be more closely associated with a
Theory Y approach, which is more optimistic.
Accreditors are scheduled to visit a hospital site, and staff members have been made aware of
what they will be assessing. What staff behavior would most clearly suggest the presence of the
Hawthorne effect?
A. The nurses avoid contact with the accreditors because they fear criticism
B. The nurses constantly improve their performance because they know it's being scrutinized
C. The manager temporarily adopt a leader ship role
D. The manager blames individual nurses for deficits identified in the accreditation report -
ANS B. The nurses constantly improve their performance because they know it's being
scrutinized
Feedback: The Hawthorne effect indicated that people respond to the fact that they are being
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