Questions for Management Positions (Part 2)
31. What are the major training and development needs of the people in your department? How did you identify them? What are you doing about them?
32. Are there any techniques you have found useful in identifying particular subordinates’ needs and potentials? Tell me how they worked with a particular person.
33. What do you do differently than other managers? Why? Examples?
34. What is the farthest you’ve had to bend your standards in order to succeed?
35. What job duties would you like to avoid if at all possible?
36. Describe a time in which you weighed the pros and cons of a situation and decided not to take action, even though you were under pressure to do so?
37. All of us have been in situations where we assigned work to other people and they didn’t do what we intended. Can you tell me about some of those? What were the circumstances and how did you handle it?
38. Have you ever had problems in getting your subordinates to accept your ideas or department goals? What approach did you use? How effective was it?
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