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WorksheetsTopic 6 : Tactics for Becoming an Empowering Leader
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Which of the following best defines empowerment?
Giving total control to subordinates without supervision
Providing opportunities for autonomy, responsibility, and participation in decision-making
Replacing leaders with subordinates
Increasing administrative duties of subordinates
What did Jenkins (1988) emphasise about empowerment?
It gives selected officers full control of the organisation’s direction.
It requires leaders to restrict participation in major decisions.
It ensures only senior staff have authority to approve actions.
It gives stakeholders a shared role in shaping the organisation’s movement.
The main goal of empowerment in education is to:
Develop teachers and students who take responsibility for learning decisions.
Strengthen bureaucratic supervision within the school system.
Reduce teacher authority and increase centralised control.
Create dependence on principals for every school-based decision.
Which factor commonly prevents empowerment from being effective in schools?
Teachers are given excessive freedom without limits.
Students lose interest in classroom activities and projects.
Principals are reluctant to share decisions with their teachers.
Training sessions for teachers are conducted too frequently.
Which statement is NOT a cause of empowerment failure?
Empowered individuals are not provided with adequate training.
Insufficient time is given for planning and implementation.
Leaders mentor subordinates too closely at the early stage.
Leaders give subordinates full control before they are ready.
A principal with a Theory Y orientation is most likely to:
Limit teacher autonomy and require constant supervision.
Trust teachers and allow them to assume meaningful responsibilities.
Believe that teachers avoid work unless they are pressured.
Discourage teachers from experimenting with new ideas.
Empowerment can only succeed when there is:
Continuous control and fear among subordinates.
Trust and mutual respect among all school stakeholders.
Strong competition between teachers and administrators.
Isolation of teachers from key organisational decisions.
A healthy organisation is best described as one that:
Handles challenges through open problem-solving and innovation.
Delegates decisions solely to the highest-ranking officers.
Avoids conflict by ignoring organisational issues entirely.
Maintains strict routines to prevent unexpected changes.
Participative decision-making is essential because it:
Limits creativity by ensuring consistency in every decision.
Focuses mainly on reducing the workload of administrators.
Prepares individuals to accept accountability and empowerment roles.
Encourages teachers to follow orders without questioning.
Empowerment contributes to lifelong learning by:
Restricting autonomy to keep learners focused on fixed outcomes.
Standardising teaching methods to ensure uniform classroom results.
Discouraging experimentation to maintain predictable performance.
Inspiring continuous self-improvement through ownership of learning.
