Deck 8: Management and Leadership

Question 1

Which of the following are part of Fayol's (1949) 14 'Principles of Management'?

A)Remuneration
B)A charismatic leader
C)Unity of command
D)A temporary workforce

Answer 1

A AND C

Question 2

Which of the following is a feature of 'leadership'?

A)The maintenance of existing organizational arrangements
B)The establishment of organizational arrangements
C)The revitalization of organizational arrangements
D)The transformation of organizational arrangements

Answer 2

B AND C AND D

Question 3

Mintzberg (1973) considers managerial work as a medium and outcome or wider institutional and politico-economic forces.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Concepts of inequality, knowledge, power, freedom and identity can provide a different way of considering issues of management and leadership.

Question 5

Adair (1979) challenges the view that leadership is a manifestation of personality traits possessed by individuals.

Question 6

Constitutive approaches argue that acquiring a leadership position involves managing others' definitions of reality, particularly followers.

Question 7

Which of the following are characteristics of 'transformational leaders'?

A)Ability to communicate and persuade
B)Coercive power
C)Clear sense of vision
D)Consensus seeking

Question 8

Which of the following are mainstream approaches to leadership?

A)Trait
B)Style
C)Contingency
D)Constitutive

Question 9

If an organization is successful it must be well led.

Question 10

Critical analysts largely ignore the impact of equality, justice and freedom on management and leadership.

Question 11

Leadership is concerned less with allocating work tasks than with energizing staff with a sense of direction and commitment.

Question 12

Contingency approaches emphasise the importance of the relationship between the leader and the group.

Question 13

Which of the following are key features of the 'contingency' theories of leadership?

A)Style varies according to context
B)There is no 'one best way' to lead
C)The ability to command
D)Leader as a skilled negotiator

Question 14

Which of the following are features of 'distributed leadership'?

A)A product of seniority
B)Exists and operates throughout the organization
C)Consensus seeking
D)Conflict resolving

Question 15

Which of the following are limitations of critical approaches?

A)Neglect of the global nature of capitalism
B)Neglect of cultural issues
C)Neglect of the domination of financial power
D)Neglect of people

Question 16

Which of the following is a feature of 'management'?

A)The maintenance of existing organizational arrangements
B)The establishment of organizational arrangements
C)The revitalization of organizational arrangements
D)The transformation of organizational arrangements

Question 17

Which of the following are roles of managers according to Mintzberg (1973)?

A)Informational
B)Interpersonal
C)Change Agent
D)Innovator

Question 18

Management development courses do not adequately address the conditions that impede the development and application of management and leadership skills.

Question 19

Distributed leadership transfers aspects of leadership to all organisational levels.

Question 20

Which of the following interventions can develop managers as leaders?

A)Developing a reflective mindset
B)Developing a assertive mindset
C)Developing a empathetic mindset
D)Developing a worldly mindset