Self-Awareness and Workspace Understanding Test - the question form
Questions: 14 · 3 minutes
1. When you go on a long business trip at the workplace:
Everyone does whatever they want
After a month, productivity starts to decline
Things go normally, but the risk of a "breakdown" is in the air
2. You consider your deputies to be:
Your closest colleagues, who together with you steer this "ship"
Harmless and sometimes even useful staff members
Secret rivals you must constantly fight against
3. When you receive urgent assignments from the ministry, you:
expect objective difficulties
are prepared to cope with any difficulties
are confident that there is no situation without a way out
4. You consider the basis of your managerial work to be:
Prompt resolution of emerging problems
A conceptual approach to management
Coordination of planned tasks and prompt resolution of problems that arise during their execution
5. You hold various meetings:
to find alternative ways to solve the organization's problems
to communicate your views to your subordinates
to maintain a long-standing tradition of periodic "pep talks" for subordinates
6. In your opinion, who should have the authority to reward subordinates?
Every department manager
Only some lower-level managers
Only you
7. Where is your personal secretariat located?
Wherever space was available
Next to your office
On the same floor as your deputies' secretariats
8. Your secretariat occupies:
a) more than 25 m
b) less than 15 m
c) about 25 m
9. When furnishing your office, what do you prefer most?
Books
Flowers
A television
10. Your meetings usually last:
No more than 2 hours
No more than 1.5 hours
No more than 1 hour
11. How well do you know the managers of your supplier companies and customer companies?
Very superficially
Well
Only through correspondence
12. In your opinion, what do relationships between your organization and its customers depend on?
On proactive sales policy and the quality of your products
On the requirements of procedures adopted many years ago
On planning methods
13. You expect the following from an overseas business trip:
a) obtaining information and establishing useful professional contacts
b) the opportunity to promote the company’s products
c) information about another country and its market
14. Do you consider advertising for your company’s products to be:
an unavoidable, though expensive, necessity
something you should not economize on
an integral part of the company’s operations