Reference no: EM132873002

Evidence-Based Management & Common Sense

Are these statements True or false? Or in-between? What does it depend on?

• Leaders have a long-range perspective. Managers' most important job is to be sensitive to their employees' needs.
• Performance appraisals should be abolished.
• Having employees engage in self-evaluation makes performance appraisal more democratic.
• You will get the behavior you reward.
• Extrinsic rewards reduce the intrinsic rewards employees get from their work.
• Once employees are paid enough, they are no longer motivated by money.
• Make the workplace as egalitarian as possible.
• Reward employees fairly.
• The leader's purpose has to belong to everyone in the organization.
• Employees have to be sold on change.
• The most effective organizations have strong corporate cultures.
• You only need to do [insert this year's fad] to be a successful manager.
• Information technology has made it easier to communicate.
• Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purposes behind your actions.
• Politics is dirty. Politicking hurts organizational performance.
• Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
• Power is fixed; what I give away I can never get back.
• People have different influence styles.
• People care more about being accurate than they do about being liked.
• Nice guys finish last.
• The rules prevent us from getting work done.
• If I tell employees a layoff is coming, they'll stop doing their work.
• Exit interviews are a good way to discover why an employee quit.