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Business Studies · 2025 · 6 marks
CBSE 2025 · Region 5 · Set 2 · Q33
(a) Explain any four points of importance of 'Directing' function of management.
(a)
Explain any four points of importance of 'Directing'
function of management.
OR
(b)
Explain the following styles of ‘Leadership’:
(i)
Autocratic Leadership
(ii)
Democratic Leadership
(iii)
Laissez- faire Leadership
Marking-scheme solution
Importance of Directing:
1. Directing helps to initiate action.
2. Directing integrates employees’ efforts
3. Directing guides employees to fully realised their potential
4. Directing facilitates introduction of needed changes
5. Directing helps to bring stability and balance in the
organisation
• (i) Autocratic Leadership
In autocratic leadership the leader gives orders and expects
his subordinates to obey those orders i.e. communication is
• only one way.
This kind of leadership is dogmatic i.e. the leader does not
change or wishes to be contradicted.
• (ii) Democratic Leadership
In democratic leadership the leader develops action plans and
• takes decisions in consultation with his subordinates.
A democratic leader encourages the subordinates to
participate in decision- making and exercises control by using
forces within the group.
• (iii) Laissez- faire Leadership
In Laissez – faire leadership the leader gives a high degree of
independence to the followers to formulate their own
• objectives and ways to achieve them.
The group members work on their own tasks resolving issues
themselves and assume responsibility for the work to be
performed. The manager is there only to support them.
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