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Supplementary objective test questions

6.4 Consider the five positions on the Blake and Mouton managerial grid:

 Task-orientated

 Impoverished

 Middle road

 Country club

 Team style

Manager A has an authoritarian style and is only interested in results and treats
members of the team as if they were machines.

Manager B only concerns himself with the people in the team and believes that
people are doing their best coercion may not improve the results.

Manager C abdicates all responsibility and leaves members of the team to get
on with things as they please.

Match the three managers to the position they would hold on the Blake
and Mouton managerial grid.

CHAPTER 7 – HRM APPROACHES TO MANAGING AND
CONTROLLING PERFORMANCE

7.1 In which of the following situations is it most likely that an unfair
dismissal has occurred?

A An employee leaves his job claiming that the employer was in breach of
contract by demoting him

B The employer terminates a fixed term contract with a sub-contractor
without notice

C The employer dismisses a lorry driver who has been banned from driving
by the court

D The employer dismisses an employee because of redundancy

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