Chapter 6: Motivating the global workforce
1. Cultural diversity is a competitive advantage because it:
a. Increases the potentially relevant information available for decision-making.
2. Information diversity is especially helpful in improving decision-making when it
results in:
3. Which is not a mechanism for integrating highly diverse workteams?
a. Legitimizing the status and credibility of minority perspectives.
4. The goal interdependence literature has identified variables that predict whether an
organization is characterized by cooperative goal interdependence. Which of the
following is not helpful for this purpose?
a. Goal structure defining expected patterns of work relationships.
5. Constructive controversy works most effectively when it results in:
6. Situational leadership is argued to be effective when it takes into account the maturity
of the followers being led. Maturity is a function of motivation, willingness and ability
to set goals and accept responsibility, plus education and experience levels. The most
effective leadership for business students would likely be: