Exam 14: Effective Delegation and How to Assign Work

The life span of most businesses is ________. It takes successors only half a working generation to put the company out of business most likely because of lack of ________.

Which of the following statements is most likely true of conceptual skill?

Match the items below with their descriptions: -Bill Gates

According to Laurence J. Peter, the overpromotion syndrome results in enhancing employee morale and productivity.

Which of the following is most likely the meaning of the statement: "Who would pick someone who smells like fish and mud? Who would pick an unpopular tax collector? Who would pick leaders from filthy wharves and toil-filled fields? But He did, and together they changed the world"?

In the new-job tryout, employee pride is easily preserved because the job is considered a two-way tryout.

Conceptual skills become more important than technical skills as individuals move from first-level manager, to mid-level manager, to top-level manager.

Match the items below with their descriptions: -delegation

When a job transition is not made successfully, the result is the overpromotion syndrome popularized by author ________.

Match the items below with their descriptions: -assigning work effectively

According to John Holland's model of personality and occupational types, identify a typical high-stress activity for artistic individuals.

________ said, "Develop your people to do their jobs better than you can. Transfer your skills to them. This is exciting but it can be threatening to a manager who worries that he is training his replacement. Smart managers like to see their employees increase their responsibilities because it frees the managers to tackle new or undone tasks."

Two ways of exerting leadership strength are ________ and ________.

Great companies do not hire people and motivate them; they hire already motivated people and then inspire and support them.

Relational skills are important throughout one's career at every level of management.

Shadowing allows an existing employee to actually work at a different type of job or level of responsibility for an interim period of time to see if the work is agreeable and can be performed effectively.

Match the items below with their descriptions: -don't delegate the bad jobs, saving the good ones for yourself; use delegation as a development tool; delegate work fairly among all employees; insist on clear communication; learn to live with work styles that are not like your own

Identify a rule for effective delegation.

According to John Holland's model of personality and occupational types, who among the following prefers highly ordered activities that characterize detail work and have little interest in artistic or physical skills?

Match the items below with their descriptions: -relational skill