Acca paper F1 fia diploma in Accounting and Business Accountant in Business (AB/fab) exam kit

Required: 
Identify the description above which is associated with each of the following 
theories, by writing A, B, C or D. 
(i) 
Adair’s action-centred leadership 
(ii) Human 
relations 
school 
(iii) Fiedler’s 
contingency 
theory 
(iv) 
Taylor’s scientific management 
(0.5 marks each, total = 2 marks) 
(Total: 4 marks) 
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(a) 
HB manufactures and sells pencils. Its main manager, K, has two key roles within the 
company: 
•
dividing the company’s work into various individual tasks and assigning 
responsibility for these to different members of staff 
•
ensuring that all staff are working towards the company’s quality and financial 
targets. 
Below are a number of different management functions: 
A Organisation 
B Co-ordination 
C Control 
D 
Forecasting and planning 
E Command 
F Establish 
yardsticks 
Required: 
Write down which THREE of the above statements are management functions 
(as outlined by Fayol) that are NOT being fulfilled by K. 
 
 
(0.5 marks each, total = 1.5 marks) 
 
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PRACTICE MULTI-TASK QUESTIONS : 
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K APLA N PUBLISH ING 
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(b) 
HB’s manager has a number of key skills that are important to her role within the 
organisation: 
A 
She collects and sorts out information on employee performance and the 
wider organisational context, helping the directors of the company make 
decisions. 
B 
She continually looks for problems within the organisation and comes up with 
ideas for how to deal with them. 
C 
She maintains contact with HB’s suppliers and meets regularly to get 
information from them. 
D 
She meets prospective new clients and tries to win their business by explaining 
what HB can do for them. 
E 
She approves expenditure on fixed assets for the company.