Management styles Flashcards
What is an autocratic style of management?
The manager makes decisions on their own with little reference to others. Decisions will usually be made quickly and confidently and will usually reflect the opinions and personality of the manager.
What is a Consultative style of management?
– this style appears to be caring as decisions take into account the best interests of the employees as well as the business. Communication is still usually cascaded downwards and feedback and opinion is seen as positive and useful. This approach tends to generate higher levels of loyalty from staff, raising levels of retention but retains a common weakness with autocratic styles in that it remains dependent on the leader’s influence and behaviour.
What is a persuasive style of management?
Managers still retaining control over the decision process but usually through a process of working with their staff in order to try to convince them of the benefits of the decisions that have been made.
What is a democratic style of management?
in a democratic approach, the manager encourages staff to be part of the decision-making process and decisions are then made by the majority view.
What is a MBWA style of marketing?
Management by Walking About (MBWA) which allows managers to gather information through many conversations on the ‘shop-floor’. MBWA provides unfiltered information that may not filter through formal processes.
What is a chaotic style of marketing?
– chaotic management styles allow employees to have control over the decision making process and this is very common in internet start-up environments.
What is a Laissez-faire type of marketing?
this style involves management letting employees develop their own ideas while taking an arms-length view of progress and only intervening when conditions require
What is an activist learner?
learns best from active involvement in the task, such as participating in business games and team competitions. An activist is hands on and will get thoroughly involved in experiences.
What is a pragmatist learner?
learns best when there is a link between new information and real life, such as case studies and roleplay. The pragmatist will tend to only find out about something if there is a direct link to a practical problem.
What is a reflector learning style?
– learns best by reviewing what has happened. They like to observe the world around them, to think about what they have observed and then choose how to act.
What is a theorist learner?
learns well when new information can be linked to theoretical contexts, absorbing new ideas when they are distanced from real life. The theorist seeks to understand underlying concepts or ideas first before applying them.
What are the factors that influence retrieval of information?
Mood congruence
• Familiarity
• Salience – something that is especially relevant is more likely to be recalled.
• Pictorial vs. verbal cues
• Drives – a force urging action.
• Stimuli – trigger the drives.
• Responses
• Reinforcement
What is agile project management?
is an iterative and incremental method
of managing the development of projects in a highly flexible and interactive manner.
What are 2 ways speed and efficiency of a project can be improved?
• Crashing – the project needs to be completed in a shorter time than originally planned. A reduction in duration may be possible by adding extra resources to the project. Crash Time refers to amount of time a specific task is reduced by due to the additional resources and Crash Cost is the associated cost of reducing this duration.
• Managing bottlenecks – tasks that are dependent on a number of preceding tasks, or predecessors, or which in turn have a number of subsequent tasks, or successors, dependent on them are called bottlenecks and as such can have a significant effect on overall project duration. These bottlenecks can be managed to some extent by adding time ‘buffers’ to these specific events, essentially giving then more time to be completed at the outset
What is transformational leadership?
Transformational leadership is defined as a leadership approach that causes change in individuals and social systems. In its ideal form, it creates valuable and positive change in the followers with the end goal of developing followers into leaders. The leader can do this by ensuring that employees’ sense of well-being and worth are aligned with the overall strategy and that they perceive that being part of the team that is delivering is a motivating factor.
The leader needs to live and breathe the vision so that others have a credible and consistent role model to maintain their own motivation, and to reassure them that their involvement and commitment is the right choice
