Management Skills Quiz

Time,money, materiel, and people are the four _________________.

• Leadershiptools

• Peoplemanagement tools

• Prongsof successful management

• Managementresources

Though it may be in
written or spoken form, leaders manage their people by directing them. A leader who needs someone to do something
that he cannot require them to do is actually asking them for assistance.

Which type of directing
is this?

• Demand

• Request

• Suggestion

• Volunteer

As a leader, you use your
organization skills to execute your plans. Identify the organizing factors used
in the directions below. Select the correct set of organizing factors for the
situation below.

Susan, take the Green
Van, the laptop and the projector.
Nelson, take the sedan, the posters, and the art supplies. I'll ride with Chet in the truck, and we'll
bring the rest of the equipment.

• Develop a working structure

• Allocate resources

• Selected personnel

• Set priorities

As a leader, you use your organization skills to execute your plans. Identify the organizing factors used in the directions below. Select the correct set of organizing factors for the situation below.

Kelly, Kent, and Tony

have done this kind of work before, you will work on the King Project. Zachary and Kim, you will finish the Turner Project.

• Develop a working structure

• Determine each task

• Select personnel

• Set priorities

What is the most important resource available to a leader?

• Time

• Money

• Material

• People (or manpower)

What technique below would NOT be a visualizing technique used when planning a mission?

• Rehearsing all the steps to see how a mission will turn out

• Trying to see in one's imagination how to accomplish a mission

• Meditating to relieve stress before undertaking a mission

• Trying to picture in one's mind the successful completion of a mission, to include every detail leading up to one's conclusion

Name four management resources.

• Superiors, subordinates, affiliates, acquaintances

• Time, money, material, people

• Time, money, material, underlings

• Time, money, management skills, people

What does it mean to "allocate" resources?

• To find supplies of resources

• To gather together resources

• To identify, set aside, and gather required resources according to plan

• To list all resources that will be needed for a project

Read carefully the following paragraph and select the option (A-D) that indicates which management principle is described.

Leaders compare the tasks being performed by their team with the factors involved in accomplishing their mission. Based on the team's progress, leaders may: continue with the plan; modify the plan and continue; or stop the action and start over. Since it is the leader's responsibility to ensure that the team's objectives are met and are to standard, it is a continuous part of management.

• Coordinating

• Controlling

• Directing

• Organizing

The five management principles are divided into two stages:__________ and __________.

• Preparation and implementation

• Organization and execution

• Preparation and execution

• Organization and implementation