Topic 2 revision

Inspiring staff commitment to achieving goals, refers to which function of management?

• Setting Objectives

• Analysing

• Leading

• Making Decisions

A leadership style that promotes the active participation of workers in making decisions, is known as what?

• Autocratic

• Laissez-Faire

• Democratic

Which style of leadership may be more appropriate when you have a tight deadline and a low skilled workforce?

• Laissez-Faire

• Autocratic

• Democratic

Tannenbaum and Schmidt's continuum, suggests that as the team's freedom increases, the manager's authority decreases - true or false?

(a)  

Which one of these is not on Tannenbaum and Schmidt's continuum?

• Tell

• Sell

• Motivate

• Join

According to the Blake Mouton Grid, when a leader feels that commitment, trust, and respect are the key elements in creating a team atmosphere which may result in high employee satisfaction and productivity, what type of leader are they?

• Impoverished

• Team Management

• Authoritarian

A risk is an (a)   event, activity or situation that can have a positive or negative effect on an objective.

Opportunity cost is the cost of the next best a (a)   foregone.

Scientific approach is when decisions are made on information such as d (a)  

Which one of these is a problem of a scientific approach to decision making?

• Intuition can be unreliable

• It takes time and can be expensive

• Personal experience can bring bias to decision making