Multiple Choice Questions (Enter your answers on the enclosed answer sheet)

1. Health care concerns shared by the U.S., China and India include concerns over ____________.

a. the consolidated financial mechanism

b. lack of spending at the local level

c. the low number of specialists

d. lifestyle issues and behaviors

2. Investor-owned facilities comprise about ____________ percent of the hospital sector.

a. 15-20

b. 30-35

c. 55-60

d. 75-80

3. Organizations within the health care industry have increasingly consolidated into ____________

over the past two decades with the stated objective of being more efficient, but may not operate

as such.

a. community care centers

b. corporations

c. systems

d. foundations

4. Schools of management thought have evolved over the past ____________ to provide

conceptual maps of how to deal with internal and external challenges.

a. century

b. decade

c. year

d. None of the above.

5. The Human Relations School ascertains that in order to improve productivity, management

must ____________.

a. implement the top-down control of work

b. minimize the input of workers

c. offer monetary incentives

d. understand the informal organization of workers

 

6. This school of management is also known as the “Neo Weberian” model:

a. classical school

b. human relations school

c. decision-making school

d. scientific school

7. Sociologists have long taken the _____________ in describing the embeddedness of human

behavior in social relationships.

a. social network approach

b. systems approach

c. perspectives approach

d. None of the above.

8. The decision-making school is focused on _____________.

a. physicians

b. middle managers

c. top executives

d. blue collar workers

9. One school of modern strategic management encompasses an emphasis on _____________.

a. industry net-worth

b. top-down decision making

c. industry structure and competitive forces

d. deliberate corporate rationality

10. _____________ (INDs) can fill the structural hole between independent physician groups who

can jointly develop and implement care management practices.

a. Integrated delivery networks

b. Independent doctor networks

c. Interdependent development networks

d. Independent decision networks

11. _____________ are a domain in which strong professional forces confront a host of

institutional and market forces.

a. HPRs

b. PHOs

c. ISMs

d. All of the above. 7

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12. ____________ can be defined as the process in which one engages others to set and achieve a

common goal, often an organizationally defined goal.

a. Management

b. Leadership

c. Power

d. None of the above.

13. ____________ provide supervision directly to care providers.

a. Front-line mangers

b. Top managers

c. Middle managers

d. All of the above.

14. ____________ have responsibility for entire units within the health care organization.

a. Front-line mangers

b. Top managers

c. Middle managers

d. All of the above.

15. An example work plan is also known as a ____________ Chart.

a. Gantt

b. Weber

c. Levy

d. management

16. One of the key roles of the C-Suite is to interact with key ____________.

a. external stakeholders

b. managers

c. union leaders

d. producers

17. A critical role of leadership is ____________ setting.

a. agenda

b. mission

c. objective

d. goal 8

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18. Which of the following is not a step in the strategic problem solving process?

a. define the problem

b. set the overall objective

c. conduct a root cause analysis

d. all are steps in the strategic problem solving process

19. Performance outcomes in health care are classified into three major categories:

 (1) patient-related, (2) staff-related, and (3) ____________-related.

a. community

b. stakeholder

c. government

d. management

20. The complexity and difficulty of leading health care organizations (HCOs) in a dynamic world

has spurred interest in identifying _____________.

a. avenues of change

b. competencies

c. novel health practices

d. directives

21. Studies have identified two types of support that those in leadership roles must provide for

successful change: instrumental and _____________ support.

a. industrial

b. proactive

c. interpersonal

d. unconventional

22. Processing the stress related to leadership action is recommended as a routine approach to

self-_____________ in leadership positions.

a. fulfillment

b. care

c. destruction

d. motivation

23. Service lines are programs that are organized around _____________.

a. technologies

b. diseases

c. patient populations

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24. The purpose of ____________ is to bring people together, while avoiding the negative effects

of differences in power of different participants and of limits in perspectives of each

department and level in the hierarchy.

a. parallel organization

b. informed consent

c. process evaluation

d. external organization

25. ____________ is the coordination of activities among organizational units, including the

management of conflicts among the units.

a. Specialization

b. Integration

c. Interdependence

d. All of the above.

26. ____________ are programs that are organized around diseases or conditions, patient

population or technologies.

a. Service lines

b. Delivery systems

c. Parallel systems

d. None of the above.

27. ____________ organizational structures maintain their traditional functional structures and

create program structures for just one or two programs.

a. Divergent

c. Duplicate

b. Decentralized

d. Hybrid

28. ____________ is the specification of the training required to perform work.

a. Standardization of work

b. Standardization of skills

c. Standardization of compliance

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29. ____________ is/are the exchange of information about work performance between two people

who are not in a hierarchical relationship.

a. Consensual agreement

b. Mutual adjustment

c. Shared objectives

d. Alienated forces

30. _____________ coordination captures aspects of both the programming and feedback

approaches to coordination.

a. Alliance

b. Conditioned

c. Relational

d. Intuitive

31. The state of feeling or thinking in which one is energized or aroused to perform a task or

engage in a particular behavior is _____________.

a. motivation

b. power

c. leverage

d. None of the above.

32. _____________ can be useful in collecting information about beliefs and attitudes as long as

they are anonymous and there is assurance the results will be acted on.

a. Interviews

b. Employee surveys

c. Public forums

d. Suggestion boxes

33. The four central components of expectancy theory are _____________.

a. job outcomes, victories, implementation and expectancy

b. job outcomes, valences, instrumentality and expectancy

c. job security, valences, implementation and eagerness

d. job security, valences, instrumentality and expectancy

34. _____________ is the most important defining characteristic of health care professionals.

a. Autonomy

b. Determination

c. Competence

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35. One of the best ways to motivate physicians include _____________.

a. distributing guidelines and protocols

b. financial incentives

c. traditional medical education programs

d. reminders and feedback

36. The causes of motivational problems often fall into three categories: 1) inadequate

definition of the desired performance, 2) impediments to employee performance and

 3) _____________.

a. too much autonomy

b. inadequate performance-reward linkages

c. internal review structures

d. behavioral shortcomings

37. ____________ involves “directed autonomy” whereby individuals or teams are given an overall

direction yet considerable leeway concerning how they go about following that direction.

a. Allotment

c. Enforcement

b. Engagement

d. Empowerment

38. ____________ is when altering certain aspects of the job may satisfy employees’ psychological

needs and motivation.

a. Job description

b. Job finalization

c. Job redesign

d. All of the above.

39. Team goals and their accompanying tasks can be categorized according to ____________,

complexity, and diversity.

a. goal direction

b. goal clarity

c. standardization

d. aptitude

40. Formal groups are formally recognized, organizational based social systems that are task

oriented with specific purpose and produce measurable _____________.

a. outcomes

b. needs

c. jobs

d. None of the above.12

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41. Effective team performance is dependent upon a team’s ability to form ____________ with

other teams in a positive and productive manner.

a. municipalities

b. intergroup relationships

c. intragroup dynamics

d. independence

42. ____________ leadership is the legitimate authority given to a team member.

a. Formal

b. Official

c. Informal

d. Direct

43. Members carrying out ____________ activities are involved in general scanning for ideas and

information about the external environment.

a. ambassador

b. functional

c. scouting

d. locating

44. A ____________ is a member of a team who obtains the benefits of group membership but

does not accept a proportional share of the costs of membership.

a. slacker

b. lazy person

c. free rider

d. leader

45. Which theory of motivation model includes hygiene factors?

a. McClelland’s model

b. Keller’s model

c. Maslow’s model

d. Herzberg’s model

46. _____________ group technique and Delphi technique elicit group members’ opinions prior to

judgments about those opinions.

a. Normal

b. Biased

c. Unbiased

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47. The ____________ stage of team development is characterized by disagreement, counter-

independence and the need to manage conflict.

a. storming

b. forming

c. adjourning

d. performing

48. ____________ described communication as mostly a linear process.

a. Plato

b. Plutarch

c. Aristotle

d. Socrates

49. According to the well-known management theorist, NitinNohria, effective leaders know

how and when to use each of ____________ means of persuasion.

a. Plato’s

b. Aristotle’s

c. Plutarch’s

d. Socrates’s

50. People respond to ideas that are easy to visualize because they can be recalled from memory

more readily. This is an example of the ____________ phenomenon.

a. association

b. photographic

c. availability

d. optical

51. After simplicity, the second most important quality of one’s message is _____________.

a. complexity

c. vividness

b. brevity

d. uniqueness

52. One reason that broad involvement of many different stakeholders is crucial to the success of

a communicator is that stakeholders can ______________.

a. determine their worth

b. demand better benefits

c. reluctantly comply

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53. The issue of broad representation generally becomes more important as an organizational

initiative moves into the ___________ phase.

a. origination

b. implementation

c. scouting

d. planning

54. A weakness of ____________ is that it is not appropriate for exploring a particular idea or

proposal in depth.

a. structured interviews

b. focus groups

c. open-ended interviews

d. interview design

55. _____________ explains how information spreads.

a. Hierarchy

b. Collapsing

c. Contagion

d. Staggering

56. Real-time team meetings are venues where _____________ communication takes place.

a. enhanced

b. all-channel

c. structured

d. circle

57. Which of the following is not a method used in managing organizational communication?

a. open-ended interviews

b. structured interviews

c. one-minute essays

d. All the above.

58. This rests on a fundamental principle that practitioners and institutions that produce the best

outcomes should receive more money than those who underperform.

a. pay-for-performance

b. pay-for-outcome

c. pay-for-efficiency

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59. Emotional ____________ occurs when emotions are transmitted from one party to another.

a. reaching

b. passage

c. displacement

d. contagion

60. ____________ is the tendency for others to exchange equal levels of goods and services.

a. Bartering

b. Sharing

c. Reciprocity

d. Fairness

61. _____________ involves acquisition of knowledge or skills through study, instruction or

experience.

a. Learning

b. Research

c. Studying

d. None of the above.

62. The three strategies that are the most common when individuals engage another party and

seek resolution are ____________.

a. compromising, competing, and collaborating

b. compromising, competing and consistency

c. creating, combining and consistency

d. creating, cost-effectiveness and collaborating

63. _____________ is a negotiation tactic which involves trading off on issues that are of different

value to each party.

a. Pitching

b. Compromising

c. Aggregating

d. Logrolling

64. Objective arguments are more effective than subjective arguments because they are rooted

in _____________, not perception, and are therefore more difficult to refute.

a. rumors

b. stipulations

c. logic

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65. BATNA stands for “Best _____________ to a Negotiated Agreement.”

a. Alternate

b. Acceleration

c. Advance

d. Arrival

66. Managers can use “____________,” as described by Sterman, to help them understand

dynamic complexity and gain insight into sources of policy resistance.

a. corporate models

b. corporate simulators

c. management models

d. management simulators

67. ____________ learning is when problem solvers adjust their behavior and work processes in

response to changing events or trends.

a. Adaptive

b. Creative

c. Organizational

d. Generative

68. The ____________ effect is the tendency to infer specific characteristics of a person or

organization from our overall impressions or feelings about that person or organization.

a. abstraction

b. illusory

c. perception

d. halo

69. Through _____________, innovators learn about possible action alternatives, outcome

preferences and contextual factors.

a. guessing

b. actions

c. discovery

d. production

70. According to Rosenzweig, the pervasive belief that organizational innovativeness could be

replicated through a simple formulae can be attributed to observational bias known as

 _____________.

a. discovery

b. genesis

c. the halo effect

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71. According to Plesk and Wilson, the four key conditions or parameters required for space for

novel ideas, creative solutions, and the emergence of new relationships are _____________.

a. discretion, boundaries, permission, and requirements

b. direction, brainstorming, permission, and resources

c. discretion, brainstorming, permission, and resources

d. direction, boundaries, permission, and resources

72. Three common myths or misconceptions about innovation are that (1) innovation is good;

 (2) there is a formula, and (3) innovation is ____________.

a. infinite

b. finite

c. linear

d. circular

73. _____________ are workforce or human resource practices that have been shown to improve

an organization’s capacity to effectively attract, select, hire, develop, and retain high-

performing employees.

a. High-Performance Work Practices

b. Just Culture/Just Safety Culture

c. Magnet Status

d. Pay-For-Performance

74. Burgeoning medical knowledge and the complexity of health care delivery have resulted in

increasing _____________ in the health care workforce.

a. organization

b. professionalism

c. generalization

d. specialization

75. Six Sigma is a quality improvement strategy invented by _____________ in the mid 1980s.

a. IBM

b. Sprint

c. AT&T

d. Motorola

76. _____________ identification has effectively limited organizational identification

 (i.e., individuals’ sense of alignment with the organization).

a. Professional

b. Personal

c. Self

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77. ____________ comprises the fundamental values, assumptions, and beliefs held in common

by members of an organization.

a. Strategy

b. Culture

c. Structure

d. Branding

78. ____________ is the process of providing a lens through which to interpret a situation.

a. Structuring

b. Defining

c. Framing

d. Aligning

79. _____________ leadership is defined as influencing followers by “broadening and elevating

followers’ goals and providing them with confidence to perform beyond the expectations

specified in the implicit or explicit exchange agreement.”

a. Transactional

b. Transformational

c. Traditional

d. Innovative

80. _____________ can be defined as the creation, implementation, and overall direction for a

firm.

a. Strategic management

b. Competitive advantage

c. Environmental control

d. None of the above.

81. The _____________ Framework has often been employed to understand the competitive forces

in industries.

a. Forward Financial

b. Five Fingers

c. Five Forces

d. Forward Forces

82. ____________ costs are the costs incurred when a customer changes from one supplier or

product to another.

a. Detrimental

b. Rotating

c. Oscillating

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83. ___________ power is when customers seek to drive down price and improve quality.

a. Buyer

b. Intentional

c. Supplier

d. Group

84. The analytical tool used for evaluating organizational capabilities, SWOT, stands for

 ____________.

a. strengths, weakness, organization, and teamwork

b. strengths, weakness, opportunities, and threats

c. structure, weakness, opportunities and teamwork

d. structure, weakness, organization and threats

85. When competing products or services are similar, buyers may obtain value based on the

company’s ____________.

a. portfolio

b. image

c. efficiency

d. efforts

86. ____________ analysis compares the value of the strategic business units (SBUs) of firms.

a. Creative

b. Systems

c. Organizational

d. Portfolio

87. The physician-hospital relationships fall into three broad categories: noneconomic integration,

economic integration, and ____________ integration.

a. employee

b. formal

c. personal

d. clinical

88. Governance mechanisms of alliances include (1) joint ownership in which partners share

control of some or all alliance assets; (2) contracts that specify rights and obligations of

alliance partners; (3) _____________ that rely on trust and goodwill; or (4) some combination

of these.

a. formal rewards

b. informal rewards

c. formal agreements

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89. ____________ and conflict-management systems are subsets of relational norms underlying

the process exchange over time.

a. Trust

b. Intent

c. Productivity

d. Competition

90. A major difficulty that organizations face in addressing alliance problems is actually their

inability to identify the ____________ correctly.

a. truth

b. strengths

c. problem

d. structure

91. An example of an appropriate way to deal with an alliance problem is ____________.

a. implementing performance monitors

b. swapping capabilities

c. creating governing boards

d. creating a system of checks and balances

92. To form a successful alliance, the members of the alliance need to be able to learn from their

experience and to build additional _____________ as needed.

a. lines of evidence

b. outputs

c. capital

d. capabilities

93. Willingness to put alliance interests first is a key factor of the _____________ stage of a life

cycle model of organizational alliances in health care.

a. critical crossroads

b. maturity

c. emergence

d. transition

94. ____________ partners are not particularly interested in the strategic aspirations of the other

partner in the alliance relationship.

a. Indifferent

b. Cooperative

c. Quasi-cooperative

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95. The ____________ (HIPAA) limits the ability of new employers to exclude coverage for

preexisting conditions.

a. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

b. Health Inspection Portability and Accountability Act

c. Heath Insurance Preferentially and Accountability Act

d. Health Inspection Preferentially and Accountability Act

96. The ____________ of 1986 is designed to prevent institutions from denying care to anyone

seeking emergency medical treatment, regardless of citizenship, insurance status, or ability to

pay.

a. Emergency Medical Transfer and Litigation Act (EMTALA)

b. Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA)

c. Emergency Medical Treatment and Litigation Act (EMTALA)

d. Emergency Medical Transfer and Labor Act (EMTALA)

97. The ____________ stores information regarding physicians’ and dentists’ professional

competence and conduct.

a. National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB)

b. Network of Competencies Data Bank (NCDB)

c. National Record of Health Care Provider Competencies (NRHCPC)

d. Network of Known Practitioner Errors (NKPE)

98. One approach to aligning the IS function with the rest of the organization includes the

idea that IS function should _____________ that of the organization.

a. control

b. unite

c. supplement

d. mirror

99. Successful strategic _____________ should result in a set of IS projects that the organization

has identified as important to its strategic direction or for sustaining existing capabilities.

a. values

b. governance

c. implementation

d. alignment

100. The construction phase of the systems development life cycle (SDLC) includes system

design, building, and _____________.

a. testing

b. selling

c. marketing

 

d. contracting