Worksheets2.3 IB Business Management
Total questions: 6
Worksheet time: 3mins
Which kind of leadership style is exemplified in the following statement: 'I just love my boss. He always looks out for all his staff, almost like we're his kids! As long as you do as you're told and keep his trust, you know you'll be well taken care of as an employee. I think that's why so many people have chosen to stay with the firm a long time."
Democratic
Autocratic
Paternalistic
Laissez-Faire
You work for a job placement agency. In the course of interviewing your job candidate, the candidate says, 'I just want a no-nonsense boss who knows what he or she is doing, and who calls the shots without a lot of tongue-wagging. I don't want the boss to be my friend or anything like that, just tell me what work needs to be done and get on with things.' Which style of leadership would this person most likely prefer?
Democratic
Autocratic
Situational
Paternalistic
Which of the following are the key functions of management?
Commandeering, organizing, communicating, educating, measuring
Commanding, controlling, supporting, surveilling, delegating
Planning, ordering, mentoring, connecting, disrupting
Planning, commanding, controlling, coordinating, organising
Which of these groups of workers is not a part of Handy's Shamrock organization?
Core staff
Flexible workers
Senior management
Outsourced workers
Different approaches to structuring an organization can include divisions according to:
Function, product, and/or region
Name, age, and/or nationality
Process, hierarchy, and/or orientation
Gender, product, and/or years employed
Report feedback or error
A company asks workers to evaluate their immediate supervisor to gather information about the supervisor’s leadership abilities. This is most likely a component of:
summative appraisal
formative appraisal
360 degree feedback
Performance benchmarking
