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Test Bank Essentials of Nursing Leadership & Management 7th
Edition By Sally A. Weiss |Complete All Chapters | Latest Version
2025 A+
Chapter 1: Nursing Leadership and Management MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. According to Henri Fayol, the functions of planning, organizing, coordinating,
and controlling are considered which aspect of management?
a. Roles
b. Process
c. Functions
d. Taxonomy
ANS: B, The management process includes planning, organizing, coordinating, and controlling.
Management roles include information processing, interpersonal relationships, and decision
making. Management functions include planning, organizing, staffing, directing, coordinating,
reporting, and budgeting. A taxonomy is a system that orders principles into a grouping or
classification.
2. Which of the following is considered a decisional managerial role?
a. Disseminator
b. Figurehead
c. Leader
d. Entrepreneur
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ANS: D, The decisional managerial roles include entrepreneur, disturbance handler, allocator of
resources, and negotiator. The information processing managerial roles include monitor,
disseminator, and spokesperson. The interpersonal managerial roles include figurehead, leader,
and liaison.
3. A nurse manager meets regularly with other nurse managers, participates on the
organizations committees, and attends meetings sponsored by professional organizations in order
to manage relationships. These activities are considered which function of a manager?
a. Informing
b. Problem solving
c. Monitoring
d. Networking
ANS: D, The role functions to manage relationships are networking, supporting, developing and
mentoring, managing conflict and team building, motivating and inspiring, recognizing, and
rewarding. The role functions to manage the work are planning and organizing, problem solving,
clarifying roles and objectives, informing, monitoring, consulting, and delegating.
4. A nurse was recently promoted to a middle-level manager position. The nurses
title would most likely be which of the following?
a. First-line manager
b. Director
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c. Vice president of patient care services
d. Chief nurse executive
ANS: B, A middle-level manager is called a director. A low managerial- level job is called the
first-line manager. A nurse in an executive level role is called a chief nurse executive or vice
president of patient care services.
5. A nurse manager who uses Frederick Taylors scientific management approach,
would most likely focus on which of the following?
a. General principles
b. Positional authority
c. Labor productivity
d. Impersonal relations
ANS: C, The area of focus for scientific management is labor productivity. In bureaucratic
theory, efficiency is achieved through impersonal relations within a formal structure and is based
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on positional authority. Administrative principle theory consists of principles of management
that are relevant to any organization.
6. According to Vrooms Theory of Motivation, force:
a. is the perceived possibility that the goal will be achieved.
b. describes the amount of effort one will exert to reach ones goal.
c. describes people who have free will but choose to comply with orders they are
given.
d. is a naturally forming social group that can become a contributor to an
organization.
ANS: B, According to Vrooms Theory of Motivation, Force describes the amount of effort one
will exert to reach ones goal. Valence speaks to the level of attractiveness or unattractiveness of
the goal. Expectancy is the perceived possibility that the goal will be achieved. Vrooms Theory
of Motivation can be demonstrated in the form of an equation: Force = Valence Expectancy
(Vroom, 1964). The theory proposes that this equation can help to predict the motivation, or
force, of an individual as described by Vroom.
7. According to R. N. Lussier, motivation:
a. is unconsciously demonstrated by people.
b. occurs externally to influence behavior.
c. is determined by others choices.
d. occurs internally to influence behavior.
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Test Bank Essentials of Nursing Leadership & Management 7th
Edition By Sally A. Weiss |Complete All Chapters | Latest Version
2025 A+
Chapter 1: Nursing Leadership and Management MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. According to Henri Fayol, the functions of planning, organizing, coordinating,
and controlling are considered which aspect of management?
a. Roles
b. Process
c. Functions
d. Taxonomy
ANS: B, The management process includes planning, organizing, coordinating, and controlling.
Management roles include information processing, interpersonal relationships, and decision
making. Management functions include planning, organizing, staffing, directing, coordinating,
reporting, and budgeting. A taxonomy is a system that orders principles into a grouping or
classification.
2. Which of the following is considered a decisional managerial role?
a. Disseminator
b. Figurehead
c. Leader
d. Entrepreneur
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ANS: D, The decisional managerial roles include entrepreneur, disturbance handler, allocator of
resources, and negotiator. The information processing managerial roles include monitor,
disseminator, and spokesperson. The interpersonal managerial roles include figurehead, leader,
and liaison.
3. A nurse manager meets regularly with other nurse managers, participates on the
organizations committees, and attends meetings sponsored by professional organizations in order
to manage relationships. These activities are considered which function of a manager?
a. Informing
b. Problem solving
c. Monitoring
d. Networking
ANS: D, The role functions to manage relationships are networking, supporting, developing and
mentoring, managing conflict and team building, motivating and inspiring, recognizing, and
rewarding. The role functions to manage the work are planning and organizing, problem solving,
clarifying roles and objectives, informing, monitoring, consulting, and delegating.
4. A nurse was recently promoted to a middle-level manager position. The nurses
title would most likely be which of the following?
a. First-line manager
b. Director
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c. Vice president of patient care services
d. Chief nurse executive
ANS: B, A middle-level manager is called a director. A low managerial- level job is called the
first-line manager. A nurse in an executive level role is called a chief nurse executive or vice
president of patient care services.
5. A nurse manager who uses Frederick Taylors scientific management approach,
would most likely focus on which of the following?
a. General principles
b. Positional authority
c. Labor productivity
d. Impersonal relations
ANS: C, The area of focus for scientific management is labor productivity. In bureaucratic
theory, efficiency is achieved through impersonal relations within a formal structure and is based
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on positional authority. Administrative principle theory consists of principles of management
that are relevant to any organization.
6. According to Vrooms Theory of Motivation, force:
a. is the perceived possibility that the goal will be achieved.
b. describes the amount of effort one will exert to reach ones goal.
c. describes people who have free will but choose to comply with orders they are
given.
d. is a naturally forming social group that can become a contributor to an
organization.
ANS: B, According to Vrooms Theory of Motivation, Force describes the amount of effort one
will exert to reach ones goal. Valence speaks to the level of attractiveness or unattractiveness of
the goal. Expectancy is the perceived possibility that the goal will be achieved. Vrooms Theory
of Motivation can be demonstrated in the form of an equation: Force = Valence Expectancy
(Vroom, 1964). The theory proposes that this equation can help to predict the motivation, or
force, of an individual as described by Vroom.
7. According to R. N. Lussier, motivation:
a. is unconsciously demonstrated by people.
b. occurs externally to influence behavior.
c. is determined by others choices.
d. occurs internally to influence behavior.
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