Leadership

Question 1

What is Lewin’s style of leadership?

Answer 1

Authoritarian
Democratic
Laissez Faire
Paternalistic

Question 2

What is authoritarian style from Lewin’s leadership?

Answer 2

Formal leadership where little responsibility, decision making or power is delegated

Question 3

What is democractic style from Lewin’s leadership?

Answer 3

Leadership focused around delegation and consultation

Question 4

What is laissez faire style from Lewin’s leadership?

Answer 4

Great deal of trust and freedom leaving a lot of delegated decision making and responsibility

Question 5

What is Blake and Mouton’s managerial grid?

Answer 5

2 axis: concern for task and concern for people, puts you into either middle of the road, country club manager, impoverished, authoritarian or team management

Question 6

What is important about Blake and Mouton’s managerial grid?

Answer 6

That it is possible to identify his or her leadership style and develop to improve performance

Question 7

What is the authoritarian leadership style from Blake and Mouton?

Answer 7

High concern for task, low concern for people

Question 8

What is the impoverished leadership style from Blake and Mouton?

Answer 8

Low concern for task, low concern for people

Question 9

What is the country club manager leadership style from Blake and Mouton?

Answer 9

Low concern for task, high concern for people

Question 10

What is the team manager leadership style from Blake and Mouton?

Answer 10

High concern for task, high concern for people

Question 11

What is the middle of the road manager from Blake and Mouton?

Answer 11

average concern for task, average concern for people

Question 12

What is Tannenbaum and Schmidt’s contingency theory (1973)?

Answer 12

A 7 point scale from use of authority to area of freedom which shows how autocratic or democratic a leader is

Question 13

How do managers behave if they are on the first three points of the scale from Tannenbaum an Schmidt?

Answer 13

1. Manage makes all the decisions
2. Manager sells decisions
3. Manager presents decision and invites questions

Question 14

How do managers behave if they are on points 4 or 5 of the scale from Tannenbaum and Schmidt?

Answer 14

4. Manager suggests provisional decision and invites discussion
5. Manager presents situation, gets feedback and then decides

Question 15

How do managers behave if they are on the last two points of the scale from Tannenbaum and Schmidt?

Answer 15

6. Manager explains, definites parameters and asks team to decide
7. Manager allows team to develop options and decide on the actions based within the manager’s limits

Question 16

What do Carlyle and Galton suggest in Trait Theory?

Answer 16

Characteristics of a good leader are due to nature, they are:

• motivational
• integrity
• self confidence
• creative
• intelligent

Question 17

What is Adair’s action centred leadership style?

Answer 17

That there are three elements to all leadership situations and the leader has to balance all three elements: task needs, group needs and individual needs

Question 18

What are individual needs from ACL by Adair?

Answer 18

• Coaching
• Counselling
• Developing
• Motivating

Question 19

What are task needs from ACL by Adair?

Answer 19

• Setting objectives
• Planning tasks
• Delegaying and allocating responsibility
• Setting performance

Question 20

What are group needs from ACL by Adair?

Answer 20

• Communication
• Teambuilding
• Motivation
• Discipline

Question 21

Where is there potential for conflict in ACL?

Answer 21

• Team may disagreee on way task should be done
• Team may disagree with manager
• May be hard to build team bond
• Pushing too hard for task needs may demotivate staff

Question 22

What is McGregor’s theory X and theory Y?

Answer 22

Shows how managers view employees

Question 23

How does a theory X manager view employees?

Answer 23

• Lazy, disliking work and responsibility
• Lacking the will and ability to work unsupervised
• Lacking initiative
• Largely motivated by money

Question 24

How is a theory X manager likely to manage?

Answer 24

In an autocratic manner with little employee input, communication will be limited, piecework probably used as believes employees are motivated by money

Question 25

How does a theory Y manager view employees?

Answer 25

• enjoying their work if the right conditions are created
• willing to accept responsibility and challenges
• creative and willing to contribute
• able to exercise self discipline
• not just motivated by money

Question 26

How does a theory Y manager manage?

Answer 26

Sees employees as assets, democratic leadership, motivating factors including variety, challenge and self development