WorksheetsLeadership/Leadership Styles
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
A leader motivates others towards a:
Common goal
Leadership style
High salary
Leadership skill
All of the following are characteristics of a good leader EXCEPT:
Intelligent
Arrogant
Hardworking
Honest
Your boss is away on business, but everyone has done the job before. Everyone really likes their job and the group is close - in fact, the employees often socialize after work as a group. A major crisis occurs that involves everyone, but you can't call the boss.
Which leadership style would be appropriate?
Authoritarian
Participative
Laissez-faire
Good leaders need good followers; great leaders make more _______.
Money
Products
Process
Leaders
Under this leadership members often feel engaged in the process and are more motivated and creative.
Autocratic
Democratic
Laissez-faire
Provides clear expectations for what needs to be done and how it should be done.
Autocratic
Democratic
Laissez-faire
Which of the following is a disadvantage of laissez-faire leadership?
Employees creativity isn't usually considered and employees could become demotivated
Employees are scared of management and are not allowed to make decisions
It is unclear who takes responsibility and can lead to poor performance if inexperienced staff aren't supported
Participative leadership has which of the following characteristics?
Employs a clear chain of command.
Believe success arises from leaders and staff working together.
Seeks to pick up the mood of the audience.
Seeks to involve staff in the decision making process.
What are some of the skills of a good leader?
Worrying and giving minimal feedback
Planning, communicating, and decision-making
Patience, empathy, creativity, and reliability
Which of the following is a advantage of laissez-faire style of leadership?
It leaves room for decision making to more innovative
Roles of responsibility are clearer
It makes employees feel more supported
Leadership style refers to....
the manner and approach in which leaders of a business interact with staff
the action of leading a group of people
Which of the following is a advantage of autocratic leadership?
It is an innovative style of leadership
Decisions are made quickly and by the most experienced members of staff
Employees ideas and creativity are not usually considered
The following are all leadership styles:
Persuasive, Confident, Laissez-faire
Autocratic, Consultative, Authentic
Authoritarian, Participative, Supportive
Autocratic, Democratic, Laissez-faire
Which is NOT a characteristic of an autocratic leadership style
Decisions can be made very quickly
The manager encourages team work
Employees don’t get a say in the process of decision making
Leadership is NOT which of the following:
just like management
the ability to inspire and motivate others to be productive
people-oriented
the aim of getting everyone in a group to work toward a common goal
