US 242821 Formative Assessment 1

Formative Assessment SO 1 AC 1 – 4

Case study(refer to LG,Pg 14-20)

Rate the leader’s effectiveness. Below are some typical leader statements. Rate the leader’s effectiveness of each from the scale below.

5          Very effective

4          Fairly effective

3          Neither effective nor ineffective

2          Fairly ineffective

1          Totally ineffective

• I don’t want to catch you coming in late again.
• Peter, come into my office please. I’ve noticed that you are often late. Let’s talk about it.
• Late again, huh?
• If you two don’t settle your differences and quieten down I’ll fire you both.
• This bickering has got to stop. I want to see you both in my office at lunchtime.
• While you’re here, Pete, I’ve noticed a strained relationship between you and George. Do you want to talk about it?
• Come in, George. There seems to be an unusually high number of errors from your department. Is there something wrong?
• You did an excellent job on the Pretorius job.
• I was surprised to see how well you did.
• That job will certainly add to our production.

Practical activity

• Refer to your team at work and write a short job description to find out what the tasks are that the team leader is responsible for.
• What are the responsibilities of the team leader?
• What authority does the team leader have?
• Explain what the team leader is accountable for?
• Organise the work team as you would do it
• Present your findings to the rest of the class