Management and Leadership Quiz

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What is a primary function of a manager?

Make financial decisions

Coordinate and balance various aspects (correct)

Conduct medical surgeries

Create new approaches and open up issues

What is a characteristic of a physician?

A person legally qualified to practice medicine and skilled in the art of healing (correct)

A person with no qualifications or skills in medicine

A person skilled in the art of healing only

A person legally qualified to practice medicine only

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of effective leadership?

Commitment to God (correct)

Ability to communicate effectively with team members

Sense of responsibility for service and contribution to others

Strongly defined sense of vision and ability to clearly articulate it

What is NOT a feature of a successful team?

Distrust among team members Signup and view all the answers

What do doctors often feel uneasy about?

All of the above Signup and view all the answers

What is a function of a doctor as an advocate?

All of the above Signup and view all the answers

Why must a doctor be a manager?

Because they are involved in administering components of the health system Signup and view all the answers

What does it mean for sociology to be objective?

Sociologists step back and look at the situation from different lenses Signup and view all the answers

What is the definition of science?

A body of systematically arranged knowledge Signup and view all the answers

What does society symbolize?

Social relationships Signup and view all the answers

What are the five traditional institutions?

Family, Religion, Politics, Economics, Education Signup and view all the answers

What is social interaction?

The process by which people act and react in relation to others Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for the process of people disengaging from important roles?

The process by which people disengage from important roles Signup and view all the answers

What method of conducting research uses numerical data?

Quantitative Signup and view all the answers

Who emphasized the importance of the social division of labor as a criterion of social development?

Emile Durkheim Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for the ruling class in Marxist theory?

Bourgeoisie Signup and view all the answers

Study Notes

Management Functions

A manager's function is to coordinate and balance.

Physician Characteristics

A physician is a person legally qualified to practice medicine and skilled in the art of healing.

Effective Leadership Characteristics

Strongly defined sense of vision and ability to clearly articulate it.
Leaders need to have a sense of responsibility for service and contribution to others.
The vision has to be shared and be meaningful and make sense to the people involved.

Successful Team Features

Effectively solve problems collaboratively.
Support each other.
Team members speak freely.

Doctors' Problems with Leadership

Doctors have little experience of setting strategy.
They feel uneasy about power and think of it negatively.
They are wary of expressing emotion in themselves.

Doctor's Advocacy Functions

Promote the health of individual patients, communities, and populations.
Identify the determinants of health of the populations they serve.
Respond to individual patient health needs and issues as part of patient care.
Respond to the health needs of the communities they serve.

Doctors as Managers

The modern physician inevitably becomes involved in administering components of the health system.

Achieved Status

A teacher is an achieved status.
An author is also an achieved status.

Sociology Objectivity

Sociologists step back and look at the situation from different lenses.

Science Definition

A science is a body of systematically arranged knowledge.

Society Definition

Society symbolizes the network of social relationships.

Traditional Institutions

The five traditional institutions are: Family, Religion, Politics, Economics, and Education.

Social interaction is the process by which people act and react in relation to others.

Structuralism

Structuralism favors deterministic structural forms, such as languages and institutions.

Role Exit

Role exit is the process by which people disengage from important roles.

Sociological Research Methods

Quantitative research is a method that uses numerical data.

Emile Durkheim emphasized the importance of the social division of labour as a criterion of social development.

Ruling Class

The ruling class is called the Bourgeoisie.

Karl Marx

Karl Marx was a prominent sociologist who contributed to the field of sociology.

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