Ethics Chapter 11 Test questions n
answers
An employee performance huddle at the end of the day ______. - correct answer ✔✔allows employees
to end the day sharing something they achieved with fellow team members
When a manager empowers employees well, the employees ______. - correct answer ✔✔take on
aspects of a managerial role
What is the relationship between disengaged employees and an inefficient workplace? - correct answer
✔✔Disengaged employees are disinterested in their job and therefore waste company time creating an
inefficient workplace.
As a manager, respecting employees requires that you run a workplace where ______. - correct answer
✔✔basic human needs are met
How does profit sharing increase loyalty to one's company? - correct answer ✔✔Generally it takes
several years for an employee to fully access the profit sharing, which leads to higher employee loyalty.
Open-book management is a strategy where employees who normally may not have information about
the company's financial state are given access to it so that they can make more informed choices. -
correct answer ✔✔True
According to Paul Lawrence, managers and company executives should relate to other lower level
employees by ______. - correct answer ✔✔taking the time to bond with them
You are a management consultant, and a new client has come to you with what you determine to be
problems with a number of fence-sitter employees at their insurance firm. What strategy could you
suggest that would help to motivate these employees to be more productive? - correct answer ✔✔Since
fence-sitters tend to accomplish only what is required of them, advise your client to raise the company
minimums so that more is required to keep one's job in good standing.