2024年4月26日发(作者：)

bec中级考试真题leadership in business

Read the article below about leadership in business and the

questions on theopposite page.

For each question(13-18),mark one letter(A,B,C or D)on your Answer

Sheet.

THE EFFECTIVE LEADER

From workplace surveys,l have found that most people want to be -

and feel they could be - more effective nly they want their

leaders to be more what do we mean by effective

leadership in business?It would appear a simple unately,

effectiveness is more easily recognisable when it is s who

attempt to use business jargon and try out the latest ideas are too often

perceived as figures of people frequently agree on what

ineffective leadership is,clearly knowing what not to do is hardly helpful

in practice.

Huge amounts of research have been done on this very wide

you look at leadership in different ways,you see different

descriptions of leadership are all different,they are all true -

and this is where disagreement r,leadership is specific to a

given effectiveness of your actions is assessed in relation to

the context and to the conditions under which you took them.

For a magazine article l wrote recently,l interviewed one publishing

executive,author of several well-known publications, about what

effective leadership was significant that,at first,he did not mention

his own talked at length about what was happening in the

industry - the mergers, take-overs and global nature of the

he was able to describe his own objectives for the new

publishing organisation he was setting up,he had to see a clear fit

between these proposals and the larger situation s? Of

l have lost count of the number of leaders l have coached who

believed that their ideas were valid, whatever the situation.

At this point,l should also mention another example, that of a

finance director whose plan of action was not well company

he had joined had grown steadily for twenty years,serving clients who

were in the main distrustful of any product that was too

finance director saw potential challenges from

competitors and wanted his organisation to move with the

unately, most staff below him were unwilling to change.l

concluded that although there were certainly some personal skills he

could improve upon,what he most needed to do was to communicate

effectively with his subordinates,so that they all felt at ease with his

different approach.

Some effective leaders believe they can control uncertainty because

they know what the organisation should be doing and how to do it.

Within the organisation itself,expertise is usually greatly valued,and

executives are expected,as they rise within the system,to know more than

those beneath them and, therefore,to manage the operation.A good

example of this would be a firm of accountants l business

was built on selling reliable expertise to the client,who naturally wants

uncertainty to be something only other companies have to

this firm,giving the right answer was greatly valued,and mistakes were

clearly to be avoided.

l am particularly interested in what aims leaders have and what their

role should be in helping the organisation achieve its strategic

leaders are highly ineffective when the aim doesn't fit with

the need,such as the manufacturing manager who was encouraged by

her bosses to make revolutionary did,and was very

r,when she moved to a different part of the

business,she carried on her programme of unately,this

part of the business had already suffered badly from two mismanaged

attempts at point is that what her people needed at that

moment was a steady hand,not further changes - she should have

recognised outcome was that within six months staff were

calling for her resignation.

the first paragraph,the writer says that poor leaders

not want to listen to criticism.