Question 1: Four basic functions of management:
Planning- to set directions
Organizing- to assemble resources and systems
Leading- to create workforce enthusiasm
Controlling- to ensure desired results
Question 3: Emotional Intelligence is the ability to understand oneself and manage relationships effectively. Four competencies:
Self awareness: ability to understand your own moods and emotions
Self-regulation: ability to think before acting and to control disruptive impulses
Motivation: ability to work hard and persevere
Empathy: ability to understand the emotions of others
Social skill: ability to gain rapport with others and build good relationships
Question 2: Organizational culture is a shared set of beliefs and values within an organization. It is the “character” of the organization according to Meg Whitman, former eBay CEO. Organizational culture helps in running the company with values and principles. It also helps every individual to understand the right and wrong personal behavior within an organization.
Question 5: Distributive leadership is the sharing of the responsibility for meeting group task and maintenance needs. This type of leadership can be seen within a team or sometimes depending on the need can be brought from outside. The main objective is to get the job done. If someone is an expert in an area they will get the responsibility to make things happen in that area and will direct the whole team accordingly based on their knowledge and experience. This is more of a necessity based model wherein depending on the need the leader changes within the team or from outside the team. There is no traditional top-down kind of leadership here and there are no authority trappings of any supervisors either. To facilitate shared team performance activities or functions vary.
Question 7: Constructive stress or eustress, helps us in a positive way. This is the kind of stress that we have before exams which