The Sunny Long-Term Care Facility has experienced numerous difficultie

QUESTION

The Sunny Long-Term Care Facility has experienced numerous difficulties with staff relationships, despite its success in maintaining financial viability and judicious use of resources.

Staff members complain that the primary concerns of the facility include applying policy, saving money, and ensuring that lawsuits are avoided. There is little trust in, and involvement of, staff members. This facility may be:

a. Well managed and well led.
b. Overly managed and not well led.
c. Poorly managed and well led.
d. Overly led and overly managed.

ANSWER:

ANS: B
This organization is concerned primarily with coordination of resources, application of current policy, and economic issues connected to the present. These behaviors are consistent with the management role. There is little evidence that the organization displays leadership, which involves trust, belief, hope, and vision.