Exam 4: Reflective Management: Personal and Professional Self-Awareness

Self-reflective knowledge means that managers have:

At the end of a long day,the manager of a child-care facility has a visitor,a young woman.The woman says that she and her family are strict vegetarians and wants the center to serve a vegetarian alternative to each day's lunch.The manager,annoyed because her own brother is always telling her about the evils of eating meat,explains that it is too much trouble to prepare a special meal for only one child and angrily tells the woman that if she wants her child to have vegetarian meals,she should find another center. This manager is lacking in which kind of emotional intelligence?

Feeling tired,having an upset stomach,and having trouble getting to sleep can be symptoms of stress.

The manager of a child-care facility finds that he has four things to do,but not enough time that day to do them all.Using Stephen Covey's system for arranging priorities,he decides that 1)editing the month's newsletter is important but not urgent,2)replacing the defective smoke detector is both important and urgent 3)responding to the applications for future openings is urgent but not important and 4)reorganizing the filing cabinet of applications is neither urgent nor important.Which one should he do first?

In developing alternatives during the decision process,it is most efficient in the long run to accept the first good idea that comes to mind.

What is the essential difference between programmed decisions and nonprogrammed decisions?

A manager who believes that the attitudes of her employees have a major impact on how they do their jobs has which management style?

A manager who believes that efficiency is the most important aspect of an organization has which management style?

A manager who is an autocratic leader will make decisions based on a majority vote of the group.

For screening potential employees,the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a useful tool in:

As a manager begins construction on the expanded playground,she is approached by the parents of three children from the nearby elementary school.They tell her that her new fence will block a long-used pathway to the school.The only other option for the children to reach the school is to cross a busy street with no traffic signals.The manager works out a compromise with the parents.She is now engaged in:

A child-care center's manager decides to expand the playground.After doing research on the costs of material (fencing,concrete and so forth)and labor,she decides that the center can afford the project,and so she does it.She is engaged in:

Julie is the manager of a child-care facility operated by a university.The mother of one child tells Julie that she wants her child to get a good religious upbringing and so demands that the center include reciting the Lord's Prayer and having group time for Bible stories.Julie,though,knows that the parents of some of the children are Muslim,Jewish and Hindu,and so she feels that it would be wrong to give priority to one religion.Julie is now faced with an ethical dilemma.

A manager who is a consultative leader will ask for a group's views on an issue,but will not always follow the group's advice.

A manager who sees that the organization has many interrelated parts has which management style?