Kavita is the chief editor of a top woman's magazine "Women's Era" published from Mumbai. She is a very hard working, dedicated and well-organised leader who is very passionate about her work. She also has a family of devoted husband, and two young children (a son and a daughter). Even though it is not easy for her to balance her family life and her career, she has always tried to be home by 7 p.m. each night to spend time with her children. The job is a high pressure one and sometimes she brings the work home. While at home, she is readily available to take official calls, and attend to SMS's and e-mails. Her husband is a sales manager in a local middle size FMCG company, and his timings are not fixed, so that he cannot always be at home in the early evening to be with the kids. Moreover, he is often travelling on official tours for atleast two days in a week. This has made her role as a mother even more responsible, cumbersome and tiring. She has hardly any time to relax and rest and it has started telling on her health. Her staff considers her to be an ideal boss. She was an excellent and sympathetic listener, very cooperative and good team builder who always kept her door open to everyone. She was well respected by her staff and her staff depended upon her too much. Even for little problems, that the staff members could solve themselves, they approached Kavita who was very helpful. One unexpected outcome of her openness, easy approachability and helpful nature was that she got an excuse to sit late at her desk upto 9 p.m. and sometimes even later. Her love for the job kept her late in the office , which meant that she could not pay much attention to her family. One day, she calmly analysed the issue of her staff's too much dependency on her. She observed that as a leader, she had not delegated the decisional powers to her subordinates and further more she was easily accessible. She came with the idea of empowering her staff to take more responsibility. She met with her staff, one by one, to discuss their area of responsibility. Her staff acknowledged that they really did not need her input on many decisions. They had just got used to meeting with her on every trivial issue. She asked the staff members their suggestions to improve the coordination and interdependency among the staff themselves, rather than depending on her. She thanked everyone and implemented almost all of their suggestions. With proper delegation, higher responsibility and accountability and appropriate powers for making decisions, the staff members felt very good about their jobs, and also it added onto their own development and growth. Kavita felt so happy and relaxed, since she was now relieved from many trivial problems and could devote more time to her family.

Question 1: How is Kavita's husband employed?

a. Medical representative in a pharma company

b. Sales Manager of a FMCG company

c. Entrepreneour

d. Manager- marketing of a middle sized company

Question 2: Which one is the correct name of the magazine published from Mumbai in which Kavita is employed?

a. Femina

b. Cosmopolitan

c. Women's Era

d. Graha-shobha

Question 3: Which one factor was not true in making Kavita's role as a mother very crucial?

a. Husband's support and his easy availability for sharing family responsibilities

b. Bringing office work at home

c. Not adequate time for her own rest and relaxation

d. Be readily available to attend calls , SMSs and e-mails even at home

Question 4: Which one is not applicable in Kavita's love for her job?

a. Office is office and home is home, and there is no chance to mix the two

b. Bringing work home

c. Be readily available to attend calls , SMSs and e-mails even at home

d. High pressure job

Question 5: Which one is not Kavita's personality trait?

a. Hard working

b. Dedicated

c. Irresponsible

d. Passionate for work

Question 6: Which one is the correct designation of Kavita?

a. Editor

b. Chief Editor

c. Press reporter

d. Jouranalist

Question 7: Which one point should have also formed her implementation strategy to find some time for her family?

a. Giving higher responsibilty and developing them for their growth

b. Giving power to make decisions

c. Delegating authority and make them accountable

d. Little autonomy to make mistakes and learn from them

Question 8: Which one point was not relevant in her analysis of her leadership position?

a. Non-delegation

b. No empowerment to lower staff to make decisions

c. Too much of dependency of staff on her

d. Maintaining proper distance from her sub-ordinates staff

Question 9: Which one was not the reason for Kavita's late evenings at office?

a. Love for work and open nature

b. Good team builder and helpful attitude for staff

c. Excellent and sympathetic listener

d. Non-approachable

Question 10: Who all constitute Kavita's family?

a. Husband, a son and a daughter

b. Husband, mother-in-law and father-in-law

c. Husband and two sons

d. Husband and two daughters