The interviewer is evaluating your ability to adapt your management style to different people and circumstances. The ability to recognize individual needs and motivations and not treat everyone in the same way is key to successful management.

Describe how you are able to employ different management styles and interpersonal skills to get the best out of the situation. Give reasons why you use a particular management style in a certain situation and why it works.

Work-force diversity has important implications. Managers need to be able to recognize employee differences and respond to those differences in ways that ensure effective working relationships.