Test Bank for Leadership Research Findings, Practice, and Skills, 10th Edition by DuBrin.pdf

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Chapter 1 Making, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Clinical Reasoning:
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Requisites for successfulleadership and management
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1. What statement is true regarding decision making?
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A) It is an analysis of a situation
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B) It is closely related to evaluation
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C) It involves choosing between courses of action
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D) It is dependent upon finding the cause of a problem Ans: C Feedback:
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Decision making is a complex cognitive process often defined as choosi
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ng a particular course of action.Problem solving is part of decision maki
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ng and is a systematic process that focuses on analyzing a difficult situat
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ion. Critical thinking, sometimes referred to as reflective thinking, is rela
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ted to evaluationand has a broader scope than decision making and pro
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2. What



1. A) Its need for implementation time
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2. B) Its lack of a step requiring evaluation of results
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3. C) Its failure to gather sufficient data
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4. D) Its failure to evaluate alternatives
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Ans: A Feedback:
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The traditional problem-
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solving model is less effective when time constraints are a considera
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tion.Decision making can occur without the full analysis required in
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problem solving. Because problemsolving attempts to identify the r
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oot problem in situations, much time and energy are spent on identi
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fying the real problem.
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3. Which of the following statements is true regarding decision making?
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1. A) Scientific methods provide identical decisions by different individua
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ls for the same problems
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2. B) Decisions are greatly influenced by each persons value system
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3. C) Personal beliefs can be adjusted for when the scientific approach to
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4. D) Past experience has little to do with the quality of the decision
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Ans: B Feedback: n n




Values, life experience, individual preference, and individual ways of thi
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nking will influence a persons decision making. No matter how objective
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the criteria will be, value judgments will always play a part ina persons de
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cision making, either consciously or subconsciously.
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is a weakness of the traditional problem-solving model? Page 1
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4. What influences the quality of a decision most often? A) The d
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ecision makers immediatesuperior
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B) The type of decision that needs to be made
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D) The time of day the decision is made Ans:
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C Feedback:
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The greater the number of alternatives that can be generated by the deci
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sion maker, the better the finaldecision will be. The alternatives generat
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ed and the final choices are limited by each persons value system.
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5. What



1. A) Good decision makers are usually right-brain, intuitive thinkers
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2. B) Effective decision makers are sensitive to the situation and to others
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3. C) Good decisions are usually made by left-brain, logical thinkers
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4. D) Good decision making requires analytical rather than creative proce
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