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Business and Technology Question 1:
Which of the following would be an effective technique for encouraging healthy team solidarity?
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Encouraging members to express disagreements
Business and Technology Question 1 Detailed Solution
Correct Answer: C
Explanation:
Competition with other groups enhances solidarity, and competition within a group destroys it, so the first and second option are the opposite of solidarity-enhancing.
The fourth option would lead to ‘group think’: inability to confront problems, lack of criticism of poor decisions, false consensus. It may create high solidarity, but not healthy solidarity.
Business and Technology Question 2:
An organisation has set up a team in which any member of the team can perform the full range of its tasks.
The manager is able to share out tasks between members according to who is available to do a given job when it is required.
What sort of team organisation does this describe?
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Multi-skilled team
Business and Technology Question 2 Detailed Solution
Correct Answer: B
Explanation:
A multi-skilled team is one which brings together versatile individuals who can perform any of the group’s tasks. Multi-disciplinary (or multi-functional) teams bring together individuals with different skills and specialisms, so that their skills can be pooled or exchanged.
Self-managed teams are given discretion to plan their own task sharing and work methods, within defined task objectives: there is no suggestion that this is the case here. A virtual team is a geographically dispersed team, connected by information and communication technology (ICT) links.
Business and Technology Question 3:
At the Soli-Darretty Bros factory, a project team has been put together by management. The team are engaged in debating how they are going to approach the task, and who is going to do what.
Some of their first ideas have not worked out but they are starting to put forward some really innovative ideas: they get quite excited in brainstorming sessions, and are uninhibited in putting forward their views and suggestions.
Factions are emerging, not only around different ideas, but around two dominating individuals who always seem to disagree.
At what stage of Tuckman’s group development model is this team?
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Storming
Business and Technology Question 3 Detailed Solution
Correct Answer: B
Explanation:
This is typical of ‘storming’ behaviour. Forming would be more tentative: just getting to know one another. Norming would be further along in the process of settling into shared values and behaviours.
Business and Technology Question 4:
A team leader is having difficulties with conflict in the team, due to clashes’ or incompatibilities in the personalities of two of its members. The leader draws up a list of options for managing the problem.
Which option, from the following list, would be the least practicable?
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Encourage the members to modify their personalities
Business and Technology Question 4 Detailed Solution
Correct Answer: B
Explanation:
Personality is a relatively stable and distinctive concept: it is very difficult (if not impossible) to change personality, and the attempt has radical effects! The other options are constructive approaches to handling personality clashes in a team.
Business and Technology Question 5:
Which of the following is most clearly a sign of an ineffective group?
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Members passively accept work decisions
Business and Technology Question 5 Detailed Solution
Correct Answer: C
Explanation:
Members of an effectively functioning group will take an active interest in decisions affecting their work. The first option is healthy, particularly in avoiding problems that occur when groups seek consensus at all costs (eg group think’). The second option is healthy, as it unites and stimulates the group. The fourth option can be a sign that the group is supporting the performance of its members - not just that they are focusing on their own performance at the expense of the group.
Business and Technology Question 6:
Which of the following is NOT one of Fayol’s five functions of management?
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Motivating
Business and Technology Question 6 Detailed Solution
Correct Answer: C
Explanation:
Fayol’s five functions of management are: planning, organising, commanding, co-ordinating and controlling. It is assumed that subordinates will carry out a command whether motivated or not.
Business and Technology Question 7:
Which of the following is an ‘interpersonal’ role of management, in Mintzberg’s classification of nine managerial roles?
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Figurehead
Business and Technology Question 7 Detailed Solution
Correct Answer: B
Explanation:
Interpersonal roles are based on the manager’s formal authority: they include the roles of figurehead, leader and liaison. Informational roles are based on the manager’s position in internal and external information networks: they include monitor, spokesperson and disseminator. Decisional roles relate to the work of the manager’s department: entrepreneur, disturbance handler, resource allocator and negotiator.
Business and Technology Question 8:
According to research, which of the following statements is true of a consultative style of management, compared to other styles?
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
It is most popular among subordinates
Business and Technology Question 8 Detailed Solution
Correct Answer: A
Explanation:
A consultative style is the most popular among subordinates, although a sells’ style is perceived to be most used by leaders - and a ‘tells’ style encourages the highest productivity in many circumstances.
Business and Technology Question 9:
Which of the following is NOT a management technique advocated by Taylor?
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Multi-skilled team working
Business and Technology Question 9 Detailed Solution
Correct Answer: C
Explanation:
Skilling was an important aspect of Taylor’s approach - but multi-skilled team working wasn’t. Taylor’s approach to job design was to break jobs down into single, simple tasks which were given to an individual as a whole (specialised, repetitive) job for an individual. The other options are key techniques.
Business and Technology Question 10:
What is delegated by a superior to a subordinate?
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Authority
Business and Technology Question 10 Detailed Solution
Correct Answer: A
Explanation:
The essence of delegation is that the superior gives the subordinate part of his or her own authority. Power is not conferred by the organisation, so it cannot be delegated: it must be possessed. The most important thing to note is that responsibility is not delegated: the superior makes the subordinate responsible to him for the authority he has delegated, but he remains responsible for it to his own boss.