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Leadership Styles
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Recapping leadership styles and models
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A director is most likely to carry out the following?
Implement tactical decisions
Report to shareholders
Carry out day-to-day tasks
Run a department
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What management style means all decisions are made centrally?
Democratic
Bureaucratic
Authoritarian
Laissez-faire
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A managers attitude to risk is likely to depend on which factor?
The size of the budget
Level of responsibility
The penalties for poor decisions
External environment
4
A manager will carry out the following task?
Motivating and communicating
Setting objectives and planning
Organising a group
All of the above
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A possible advantage of using authoritarian management is:
Highly inflexible
Staff motivation is low
Allows for new ideas
Decisions made quickly
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Which leadership style suggests the manager might adapt their style to different circumstances?
Paternalisitc
Democratic
Autocratic
Situational
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What factor is most likely to influence a managers decision making?
Mood
Football results
Weather
Availability & Reliability of Data
8
Which of the following refers specifically to leadership rather than management?
Instructing and coordinating subordinates
Motivating and inspiring others
Make tactical and operational decisions
Authority comes with position rather than action
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Which type of leader believes employees should be involved in decision making?
Authoritarian
Theory X
Paternalistic
Democratic
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Tactical Decisions are easily reversed
True
False
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Possible disadvantage of democratic management?
Staff more motivated
Employee wellbeing higher
May slow down decision making
Employees more loyal to business
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When is a manager most likely to use a laissez-faire management style
Employees being made redundant
Employees need training
Employees threatening industrial action
Employees skilled and motivated
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Laissez-faire means?
Very little delegation
Focus of power is more with the group as a whole
Employees have freedom to do what they think is best
Where the leader is seen as a “father-figure”
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What type of manager thinks employees need to be controlled and coerced?
Theory Z
Theory Y
Theory X
Theory W
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Leadership style on the Blake Mouton Grid with high concern results/ low concern people?
Produce-or-Perish
Country Club
Impoverished management
Middle-of-the-road
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An autocratic leader is likely to communicate?
Two-way
Horizontally
Slowly
Top down
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A strategic decision is ....... ?
Requires commitment of resources
Long term planned
All of the above answers
Difficult to reverse
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What is the most likely reason for a shift away from autocratic leadership?
Changes in society’s values
All of the above
Better educated workforce
Pressure for greater employee involvement
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A country club manager is most likely to focus on?
Completion of task
Employee involvement in decisions
Minimal effort
Work environment
20
When a leader identifies problems, makes decision and announces to subordinates?
Joins
Consults
Sells
Tells
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Democratic leadership likely to emphasise?
Long term
Delegation and consultation
Target setting
Rules and regulations
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Which of the following are internal stakeholders?
Consultants
Employees
Customers
Government
