1. Identify the four general decision making styles. Explain the two primary characteristics, which define each.

2. Describe participative management, and give at least four factors that help make participative management work.

3. Explain what centralization and decentralization of authority mean. Would you rather be a manager in a centralized or a decentralized organization? Why?

4. Give examples of what managers might look at in performing each element of a SWOT analysis.