Management and Leadership

Which function of management involves leading staff?

• Organising resources

• Directing and motivating

• Controlling and measuring

• Coordinating activities

Organising resources involves:

• ensuring a business is structured appropriately

• ensuring a business has appropriate objectives

• ensuring managers are trained effectively

• ensuring all staff have sufficient resources to carry out their duties

According to Mintzberg 'Negotiator' is an example of:

• informational roles

• interpersonal role

• decisional role

• management role

Which of the following is not a characteristic of a good leader?

• Desire to succeed

• Incisive mind able to analyze new situations quickly

• Needs to be liked by everybody

• Strong personality to be able to influence

Which of the following is not an advantage of autocratic leadership?

• Workers do not like unstructured organisations

• Consultations can be time consuming

• It involves staff in decisions

• It suits workers who do not like responsibility

McGregor's Theory is related to :

• different types of workers

• different types of manager

• different attitudes of managers

• different roles of managers

Which is the most accurate statement about the choice of leadership style?

• There is no single right or wrong way of leading people

• Lazy workers deserve Theory X leadership

• Clever workers do not need leadership

• Theory Y leaders are better manager

A democratic leader:

• encourages shared decision-making

• makes all of the decisions

• lets each employee decided how work will be done

• does not make decisions

This leadership style is the most efficient in critical situation

• paternalistic

• situational

• autocratic

• laizzes faire

Which is Autocratic leadership?

• participation of workers in making decisions

• keeps all the decision making

• allow workers to carry out tasks and decisions

• explain issues and consult with workers