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1
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What are the 5 parts of Blake and Mouton’s managerial grid?

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  • Country club leadership
  • Authoritarian leadership
  • Impoverished leadership
  • Team leadership
  • Middle-of-the-road leadership
2
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What is country club leadership?

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Concerned about employee well-being which may be taken advantage of

3
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What is Authoritarian leadership?

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Task comes first

4
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What is Impoverished leadership?

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Little concern for task or employees

5
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What is Team leadership?

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Strong regard for employee and task

6
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What is Middle-of-the-road leadership?

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Compromises between the employee and task needs. Meaning neither is fully met

7
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What is Carlyle and Galtons theory?

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Suggests a leader has the characteristics of a good leader, they are not learnt.

8
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What are Carlyle and Galtons characteristics of an effective leader?

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  • Motivational
  • Self-confidence
  • Intelligent
9
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What did Zaccaro do?

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Looks at leadership traits in more detail (15 key traits) opposed to the 5

10
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What are the 4 styles of leadership for Tannenbaum and Schmidt?

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Tell, sell, consult, participate

11
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What is a ‘‘tell’’ leadership style?

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informs employees of his/ her decision. Employees not part of decision making

12
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What is a ‘‘sell’’ leadership style?

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A manager makes a decision, but attempts to “sell” the decision to the employees.

13
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What is a ‘‘consult’’ leadership style?

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Will invite discussion for the managers decision

14
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What is a ‘‘participate’’ leadership style?

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Employees are asked to make decisions.

15
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What are the 3 elements of Adairs action?

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  • Achieving the task
  • Managing the team or group
  • Managing individuals
16
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What are senior managers?

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At the top of an organisation

17
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What are middle managers?

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Have operational control to implement senior managers strategy in their own way

18
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What are junior managers?

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Management trainees or in supervisory roles

19
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What are line managers?

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Can order subordinates in their department and responsible for business product policy

20
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What are staff managers?

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Provide support to line managers

21
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What are production management?

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Making, scheduling and maintaining the products

22
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What are marketing management?

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Marketing research and promotion to ensure the product reaches the customers

23
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What are personnel management?

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Organises the employees

24
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What are financial management?

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Housekeeping of business accounts

25
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What is a research and department management?

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Develop and test new products

26
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What is a management information services department?

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ICT support

27
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What is Adairs action?

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‘three circles’ diagram, which illustrates 3 core management responsibilities

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