Effective Management and Leadership

The ability to motivate individuals and groups to accomplish important goals is called?

• Management

• Leadership

• Strategy

• Business Ownership

The organization of processes and people to achieve a desired result is called?

• Management

• Leadership

• Strategy

• Business Ownership

Select two leadership skills

• Communication

• Planning

• Integrity

• Monitoring

which one is not a strategy of an effective leader?

• be proactive

• always keep your ultimate goals in mind

• put first things first, know your priorities

• never forgive any mistakes

One disadvantage of an autocratic leadership style is...

• there is no disadvantage

• good staff ideas are ignored

• there is a lack of supervision

The ability to influence a group toward the achievement of goals - is a:

• Management asset

• Leadership asset

• both: a management and a leader assest

• no asset

Which on of these statement was often used to describe managers vs. leaders?

• The manager innovates, the leader renovates

• The manager propagate, the leader innovates

• The manager administers; the leader innovates

• The manager innovates; the leader administers

Participative or democratic management:

• centralises authority with the democratically elected manager.

• encourages employees to take responsibility for their work.

• requires a lot of supervision of employees as employees are responsible for their own work.

• reduces the time it takes to make decisions.

Laissez-faire management:

• provides a lot of direction to employees on what their roles are.

• makes staff responsible for their own work.

• can lead to great productivity in the workplace.

• delegates decisions to employees and does not provide feedback.

A leader whose role is characterized by a fatherly attitude in the sense of being protective, nurturing, and helping members of the organization he leads, is referred to as?

• Laissez-faire leadership
• Autocratic leadership
• Democratic leadership
• Paternalistic leadership