Yvonne Quidilla

NURS 362
1/12/15

Management Style Assessment*

Finding your Personal Management Style
The following exercises will help identify management styles and the typical behaviors that
accompany each. Completing the exercises will help you characterize your personal management
style.
Instructions: Using a five-point Likert type scale of 1-5, where 1 means very uncharacteristic
of me and 5 means very characteristic of me, describe to what extent the 40 attributes below
characterize your management style or preferred method of project completion. If you are
unclear on an attribute, ask 1-2 people close to you how they view your style.
Quality
1. decisive

I
Score
3

II
Quality
2. people-pleasing

Score
3

5. exhorter
9. controlling

3
2

6. spontaneous
10. informal

2
2

13. competitive

17. demanding

14. sharing &

participative
18. sensitive

21. perfectionist

25.
confrontational
29. results-focused

22.
accommodating
26.
procrastinating
30. emotional

33. powerconscious
37. dominating

34. conflictavoiding
38. contemplative

Total Score

3
29

Total Score

4
4
4

16. visionary

20. nontraditional
24. questioning

7. efficient
11. politically
sensitive
15. closureoriented
19. concern for
routine
23. planner

IV
Quality
4. changeoriented
8. innovative
12. persuasive

27. formal

31. detached

35. informationfocused
39. detailintensive
Total Score

28. long-run
focused
32.
experimental
36. activist
40.
controversial
Total Score

4
35

III
Quality
3. organized

Score
5

4
38

Score
3
3
4

3
3

Enter your total score for columns I-IV. The style with the highest points total signals your
dominant, or preferred, management style. The higher the score for your preferred style relative
to the other three styles, the more that style probably dominates your behavior. More than one
high score among the four shows you have a broad managerial-style repertoire the capacity to
utilize more than one style.

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Yvonne Quidilla
NURS362
1/12/15
Following the completion of my management style assessment, I scored the highest as a
maintenance manager. The description of a maintenance manager fits me well in some areas. I
do believe that my strengths are organization, planning, and I am information focused. I like to
know why I am doing something, what are the alternatives, and what do the results indicate. I am
a fan of routines and my approach in the work field is by the book for the most part.
I do not see myself as a detached person. I am very sociable, I like to interact with others
and get to know them. I dont see myself as being 100% formal. After reading all the descriptions
of the managing styles, I believe that I am somewhere between a shepherd and maintenance
manager.
I have been given the opportunity to be a leader a few times and looking back on my
approach I would teach them how to do something and I would offer support, encouragement,
clarification and help them if needed. Im very big on communication and I like people to feel
comfortable talking to me. I believe that those things are essential in a leadership role.
According to Nelson, Azevedo, Dias, Sousa, Carvalho, Silva, and Rabelo (2013), good
work relationships and a good working environment promotes positive morale for the employees
and thus improves work performance and job satisfaction. I completely agree with this. A leader
is a part of the team and influences all of these aspects in providing optimal care and service,
thus being a good leader is integral.

Spehar, Frich, and Kjekshus (2014), stated that your background and experience in
managing can either be used as an asset or hindrance depending on how you use your knowledge
base and experience in your current leadership role. I also agree with this. I believe that having a
good knowledge base and having experience is good but it is how you utilize them is what will
matter and gain respect and trust from your team.
To be a better leader I would need to find a good balance where I can be formal and yet
not so intimidating where my team is uncomfortable in approaching me. By doing this I would
need to work on my approach on not being so casual. This will be achieved in the way I speak,
my vocabulary, and the way that I carry myself. I would need to present myself in a way to my
team so they would respect me and not fear me or write me off. I would need to be approachable
so that my team can communicate with me issues and concerns so that we can work together to
fix them. I would show my team that I am a competent, dependable and responsible leader by
having a good knowledge base, being organized, express what their role is as part of the team,
meeting deadlines, being supportive, and patient. I will continue with my education by obtaining
a higher degree and gaining experience in the work field as a nurse.
In my assessment, my dominant management style is maintenance. I believe that I am
more of a mixture of a shepherd and maintenance. To improve myself as a leader I would need to
adjust myself to be more formal, have a better knowledge base and more work experience, and
establish a good repute. I will continue to be organized, information seeking, and communicate
with them. With this I hope to help provide my team a good working environment so that we as a
whole can provide the best care possible for our patients.

References
Nelson, S. A., Azevedo, P. R., Dias, R. S., Sousa, S. A., Carvalho, L. P., Silva, A. O., & Rabelo,
P. C. (2013). Nursing work: challenges for health management in the Northeast of Brazil.
Journal Of Nursing Management, 21(6), 838-849. doi:10.1111/jonm.12156
Spehar, I., Frich, J. C., & Kjekshus, L. E. (2014). Clinicians in management: a qualitative study
of managers' use of influence strategies in hospitals. BMC Health Services Research,
14(1), 159-176. doi:10.1186/1472-6963-14-251