If, as a Manager, You Are Required to Pass on Information

question 18

Multiple Choice

If, as a manager, you are required to pass on information or an instruction to your team about a change that they are unlikely to agree with or support, you should:

• A) criticise the change and get your team on side by saying that you also disagree with it.
• B) verbally support the change to your team, but make it obvious through your body language that the opposite is actually true.
• C) look at the situation from the strategic perspective and try to understand the overall reasons behind the change.
• D) leave announcing the change until it actually needs to be implemented, so that it will be too late for any disagreement among the team.
• E) threaten to resign unless there is greater consultation in relation to the change.

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Definitions:

Accommodations

Adjustments made in educational or workplace settings to support the needs of individuals with disabilities or specific challenges.

Internal Consistency

Internal consistency measures the reliability of a test based on the correlations between different items on the same test.

Freedom of Information Act

A law that allows for the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased information and documents controlled by the United States government.

Federal Records

Documents created or received by a government agency that are preserved as evidence of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, operations, or other activities.