Help! Management knowledge needed!

jonesy

jonesy

jonesy

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Doing an online uni test, timed, dont think im doing so well. Going to use my ask the audience life line on this one.... any help would be great!

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As a leader I view my subordinates as being very lazy and constantly in need of mechanisms of command and control placed around and on them. My subordinates are not to be trusted. I make decisions and my subordinates HAVE to do as I say and fulfil those tasks that satisfy the decisions I have made. I acnnot give my subordinartes an inch or they will take a mile. How would you describe me?
a) Do you think I am an authoratarian?

b ) Am I a benevolent authoratarian?

c )Do you think I consult too much with my workforce and allow them too much autonomy?
d )Do you think I allow my subordinates the freedom to solve problems

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Which onne?

Thanks.
 
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I could start chatting management here, but how in depth are you doing this? I do management at uni (well, a module or two of it), and would start mentioning McGregors' theory X, and mechanistic bureaucracy etc...

Check out your Motivation theory - the issue is as much with you as it is your workforce - and saying that, your work environment.
 
Its just multiple choice.... ideal situation for me is never have to read anything about management.... hate it!



Which one you think it is?
 
A.

B would imply you care about your workforce, which clearly you don't as you describe them as "lazy" and "not to be trusted".

C and D are obviously wrong as you give them no freedom and do not give them autonomy as you control them.
 
jonesy said:
I make decisions and my subordinates HAVE to do as I say and fulfil those tasks that satisfy the decisions I have made. I acnnot give my subordinartes an inch or they will take a mile.
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A
 
ok folks, you seem to know more than me!


Next question!

If I were an employee of yours and I was extremely able and skilled at doing my job and doing what you wanted me to do together with a willingness to do my work, what leadership style would I be most likely to respond to according to Hersey and Blanchard?
a) Country club
b) Impoverished leader
c) Authority obedience
d) Team management



Its timed so keep em coming!

Mucho mucho appreciated.
 
Fraggr said:
A.

B would imply you care about your workforce, which clearly you don't as you describe them as "lazy" and "not to be trusted".

C and D are obviously wrong as you give them no freedom and do not give them autonomy as you control them.
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Those are the exact reasons I went for A.

If you were B, your workforce would be a bit happier.
C is wrong as you don't consult, you enforce.
D is wrong as you don't allow them any freedom at all!

And Hiroki, I guess you aren't at uni?
Most uni's I know have online tests now.
 
jonesy said:
ok folks, you seem to know more than me!


Next question!

If I were an employee of yours and I was extremely able and skilled at doing my job and doing what you wanted me to do together with a willingness to do my work, what leadership style would I be most likely to respond to according to Hersey and Blanchard?
a) Country club
b) Impoverished leader
c) Authority obedience
d) Team management

Its timed so keep em coming!

Mucho mucho appreciated.
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A once again.

You're taking this test though, not me!

We might start throwing wrong answers at you soon. :)

I'm off to bed anyway.
 
I am at Uni... but I have never heard of anybody taking an online test?.. What exactly is the point of them? Surely if it counts towards your degree then the course must be a bit of a joke?!
 
According to Horner (1997) which school of thought (group of theorists) "looked at leader behavious in an attempt to determine what successful leaders do"?

Style theorists
Trait theorists
Thrust theorists
Situational theorists




Any help on this one?
 
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