Management Styles Questionnaire (Self Discovery Series)

As a people manager, your view of others' underlying motivation significantly impacts on how you relate to and communicate with them. This in turn affects their level of engagement and active contribution to your organisation or team.

Drawing upon McGregor's Theory X and Theory Y, the Management Styles Questionnaire gives respondents a picture of how they prefer to look at things in the workplace, in particular attitudes toward and relationship with others.

This profile outlines assumptions about each theory, shows the behaviour model and explains typical performance of each managerial style in four broad areas:

• Administrative

• Cognitive

• Communication

• Supervisory

Where Theory X assumes that people are lazy, lack ambition, dislike responsibility and prefer to be led, Theory Y assumes that people have an innate 'Ηneed' to work and want responsibilities and achievement. Managing Theory X and Theory Y perspectives then becomes very challenging, with an 'Ηideal' being a successful combination of the two.

Using 'Yes' or 'No' answers to 30 questions that examine past behaviour, this self assessment will help you discover your management style, and the interpretive information will help you determine how to more effectively motivate your staff.

This instrument measures an individual's competency and is scored using scenario-based (multiple choice) responses.