The nurse has scheduled a vacation to attend a resort with the family over the children?s spring break. There is a flu epidemic and over 60% of the staff is unavailable to work
The nurse manager cancels all scheduled vacation and requires all staff to work the week of spring break. Using the managerial grid as a model, what type of management decision was made? 1. Country club 1,9
2. Team 9,9
3. Impoverished 1,1
4. Authority compliance 9,1
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Explanation: 1. Authority compliance has the highest regard for the work at hand and the lowest regard for
the human elements. The opposite would be country club, in which the relationships between
people are higher than the regard for work. The team style has high regard for both task and
people. Impoverished decisions lack concern for the task and the people.
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