Your leadership style Test - the question form
Questions: 23 · 20 minutes
1. Interaction approach
Correcting
Accommodating
Dominating
Collaborating
2. Communication method
Written orders
Dialogue
Verbal instructions
Meeting
3. Purpose of communication
Weak in both directions
Patronizing, favors subordinates
Arrogant, favors the manager
Two-way in both directions
4. Time orientation
Past
No preference
Immediate present
Future
5. Identifies with:
The organization
Subordinates
Management and the technology
Colleagues
6. Preferred approach
Follows a bureaucratic approach
Uses a social approach
Follows a technological approach
Integrates a socio-technical approach
7. Criteria for evaluating subordinates
Does the person follow the rules?
Does the person understand people?
Does the person work well?
Does the person fit in with the team?
8. Criteria used to evaluate supervisors
Intelligence
Warmth
Power
Teamwork
9. Task assignment behavior
Provides clarity, leads, directs
Provides support, coordinates, advises
Introduces innovations, evaluates, leads
Focuses on results, monitors, encourages action
10. Suited to performing the job
Administrative, accounting, statistical
Leadership, development, coordination
Production, management, sales
Supervision of other managers’ work
11. Not suited to performing the work
Lack of a clear structure
Poor interpersonal contacts
Disregard for authority
Too much routine
12. Primary expectation for staff
Reliability
Collaboration
Compliance
Involvement
13. Responses to mistakes
Increase oversight
Let it go
Punish strictly
Take them into account
14. Response to conflict
Avoid
Smooth things over
Eliminate
Seek advantage
15. Response to stress
Hides behind orders
Becomes dependent and depressed
Dominates and takes advantage
Avoids making decisions
16. Positive means of control
Logic
Compliments
Rewards
Ideals
17. Negative control strategy
Discussion
Non-acceptance
Punishment
Compromise
18. A typical problem among subordinates
Lack of appreciation
Lack of direction
Lack of information
Lack of independence
19. Sanction
Loss of authority
The manager loses interest in the subordinate
Loss of status
The subordinate loses self-respect
20. Underestimating
Need for innovation
Need for organization and competence
Subordinates’ expectations
Need to act independently
21. Main weaknesses
A slave to orders
Sentimental
Aggressive for no reason
Has difficulty showing involvement
22. Fears about yourself
Emotionality, softness, dependence
Rejection by others
Loss of power
Lack of interest
23. Fears in relation to others
Deviating from the system
Conflict
Production
Dissatisfaction