Leadership

Question 1

What are the 5 different Leadership Styles?

Answer 1

1. Trait approach: Certain attributes or “traits” can relate to how effective a leader is
2. Behaviour Approach: focuses on what managers actually do in their jobs
3. Power - influence approach: Autocratic vs Participative
4. Situational approach (contingency theory): Different leadership traits, skills and behaviour will be effective in different situations.
5. Integrative Approach: Using more than one type of the above leadership styles

Question 2

What are the 5 change management Styles?

Answer 2

1. ) Education and communication
2. ) Collaboration / Participation - involve employees in decisions for change
3. ) Intervention - undertaken by a change agent who delegates some aspects of the change process to teams or individuals
4. ) Direction - “Top-down” style
5. ) Power / coercion - involves forcing change on employees

Question 3

What is the difference between Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship?

Answer 3

Entrepreneurship - a process by which individuals, teams or organisations identify and exploit opportunities for new products or services that satisfy a need in a market.
Intrapreneurship - applying entrepreneurial principles within organisations (for example by giving employees more autonomy, encouraging a culture of risk taking and rewarding intrepreneurial behaviour)

Question 4

What is the purpose of a mission statement?

Answer 4

Johnson, Scholes and Whittington describe an organisation’s mission statement as: “a generalised objective that can be thought of as an expression of the organisation’s reason for existence”. In other words it is what the organisation wants to achieve.

Question 5

What does the Cultural Web consist of?

Answer 5

• Routines and rituals
• Stories and myths
• Symbols
• Power structure
• Organisational structure
• Control systems
• Paradigm