Syllabus content

By the end of the chapter, you should be able to understand:

• scientific and intuitive thinking/management (HL only) (AO2).
• management and leadership (AO2)
• leadership styles, including autocratic, paternalistic, democratic, laissez-faire and situational (AO3)

Scientific thinking/management

• Decision making based on gathered data to make rational, objective and logical decisions.
• Based both on qualitative and quantitative data.
• Takes more time but can minimise risks of decisions.
• Historical data used could be unreliable or unrepresentative of the current situation.

Scientific decision making steps:

1. Where are we now? - Discern the current opportunity or problem.
2. Where do we want to be?
3. How do we get there? - - Using available data to implement plan of actions.

Intuitive thinking/management

• Often used to resolve ethical dilemmas.
• Involves additional sensory perceptions and emotions to make informed choices.
• Quick decision making method. Suitable method when reliable facts and data are not readily available.
• Intuition could lead to mistakes.

Management and leadership

Managing is about

Leading is about