MANAGEMENT OF MEN

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2689, 31 January 1924, Page 4

MANAGEMENT OF MEN

AN EFFICIENCY TEST

THE SECRETS OF SUCCESS.

Before yon can hope to manage other men, you must learn to manage yourself. Do you think managing yourself is easy? If you no, you should seek disillusionment by easting your eyes over the following questions, which have been compiled by the “Efficiency Magazine.” Honestly answer “Yes" to at least ten of them and you can claim to be an efficient manager. 1. Did you ever deliberately decide to break yourself of a habit such as smoking and succeed in doing it? 2. Do you control your temper and not “fly off the handle” when things go wrong? 3. Are you usually cheerful, and free from “grouchy” spells? 4. Do you think for yourself and not let the opinions of others unduly influence you? 5. Do you “keep your head” in an emergency? G. Do you remain calm when your own mistakes are pointed out to you ? 7. Do your men respect you and co-operate with you? 8. Can you maintain discipline without often resorting to the use of authority? 0. Have you ever been selected to take charge of a group of dissatisfied men because of your ability to handle men? 10. Can you adjust a difficulty and retain the friendship of the person with whom you have differed? 11. Can you get men under you to do things without irritating them and causing them to be resentful of your authority? 12. Are you patient when dealing with people who are hard to please? 13. Can you meet opposition without becoming confused and •saving things you wish afterwards you had not said? 14. Are you sought out hv your friends to handle delicate situations because of your ability to do such things? 15. Do you make and retain friends easily? 16. Do you make it a rule not to quarrel about petty things? 17. When thrown with a group of strangers, do von adjust yourself easily? IS. When talking to superiors, do you feel free from emharassment ? If). When interviewing subordinates do you put them ni ease? 20. Are you able to express your own ideas without causing others to feel that yon are overhearing and narrow-minded?