Question

Monica recently got a promotion to a management role with greater scope and responsibility. She wants to be as effective as possible in her new job. Which of the following could help her improve her ability to manage her new subordinates?
A) Updating her résumé as an exercise to reflect on her career path to date and what her next step should be
B) Taking an extension class in how to read a company’s financial statements
C) Reflecting on the effects of her past actions to evaluate how they affected herself and others
D) Understanding that her management style has gotten her a promotion so she should not change anything

Answer 1

Answer:

C) Reflecting on the effects of her past actions to evaluate how they affected herself and others

Explanation:

A manager can be defined as an individual who is saddled with the responsibility of providing guidance, support, supervision, administrative control, as well as acting as a role model or example to the employees working in an organization by being morally upright.

Generally, managers are typically involved in taking up leadership roles and as such are expected to be build a strong relationship between their employees or subordinates by creating a fair ground for effective communication and sharing of resources and information. Also, they are required to engage their staff members (entire workforce) in the most efficient and effective manner.

In this scenario, Monica recently got a promotion to a management role with greater scope and responsibility. She wants to be as effective as possible in her new job. Thus, what could help her improve her ability to manage her new subordinates is reflecting on the effects of her past actions to evaluate how they affected herself and others.

Generally, having a reflection on past decisions and actions would help anyone in a leadership position to assess or evaluate how they have affected their organization, subordinates and themselves either positively or negatively.