Management approaches

Question 1

Autocratic Leadership Style

Answer 1

a manager using an autocratic leadership style tends to make all the decisions,dictates work methods,limit worker knowledge about what needs to be done to the next step to be performed,frequently checks employee performance and sometimes gives feedback that is punitive.

Question 2

Behavioral Approach

Answer 2

an approach that stresses that people (employees) should be the main focus of the way in which the business is organised.

Question 2

Bureaucracy

Answer 2

the set of rules and regulations that controls a business.

Question 3

Chain Of Command

Answer 3

an organisational structure that shows how each member of a company reports to one another.

Question 4

Classical Approach

Answer 4

(to management) stresses how best to manage and organised workers so as to improve productivity (output)

Question 5

Contingency Approach

Answer 5

stresses the need for flexibility and adaption of management practices and ideas to suit changing circumstances.

Question 6

Delegate

Answer 6

to hand over certain tasks or responsibilities to an employee who is suitably capable and qualified to carry them out

Question 7

Control Process

Answer 7

involves establishing standards in line with the goals of the business,measuring the performance of the business against those standards or benchmarks, and making changes where necessary to ensure that the goals of the business have been met

Question 8

Flatter Organisational Structures

Answer 8

have evolved due to a ‘DE-layering’ of management structures resulting in the elimination of one or more management levels

Question 9

Leadership Style

Answer 9

a manager’s way of doing things - their behavior and attitudes.