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?

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 ................. 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...............................foregone.

Scientific approach is when decisions are made on information such as d.........

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