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This used to be a question on diversity, about research conducted at THE Ohio State University.

How might you engage in empowering leadership as a manager?

Your manager calls you into her office. She asks you your opinion on a few work issues, discusses a new project that your team is working on, and asks if you want to take the lead on it. She lets you know that there are layoffs coming within your organization, but that they won’t be in your department. There is also some chattering about personal lives, but nothing inappropriate. What behavior is this an example of?

You walk into work, having had a really good morning. You’re feeling really good about yourself and the day’s outlook. The rest of the people in your office seem really grumpy when you arrive, but soon everyone is as chipper as you. This is an example of what?

Isaac is expressing ____ when he says “I can beat the old Sonic game on my tablet before school.”

When Lily, Caleb, and Isaac moved to the new house, they evaluated the criteria that their dad used to make the allocation decisions regarding beds to see if they were treated fairly, and decided that they were. Based on justice theory, this is called ___

You’re managing a work team, and have just conducted satisfaction surveys. You discover relatively higher job dissatisfaction than you were expecting. What might you do to remedy this from a motivator-hygiene theory perspective?

“______ is the interdisciplinary field dedicated to understanding and managing people in groups.

Maria is analyzing three variables: two categorical independent variables and one interval-scaled dependent variable. She wants to examine both the individual and interaction effects of the independent variables on the outcome. What is the most appropriate statistical method for this analysis?

If you are interested in measuring the effect of three IVs on a DV (and all variables are interval scaled), you should use: