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The attainment of organizational goals in an effective and efficient manner through planning,
organizing, leading, and controlling organizational resources. ✔Correct Answer-Management
Cycle of manager responsibility ✔Correct Answer-Set objectives, organize, motivate and
communicate, measure, develop people
The management function concerned with defining goals for future performance and how to attain
them. ✔Correct Answer-Planning
The deployment of organizational resources to achieve strategic goals; involves assigning tasks,
grouping tasks into departments, and allocating resources. ✔Correct Answer-Organizing
Using influence to motivate employees to achieve the organization's goals. ✔Correct Answer-
Leading
Is concerned with monitoring employees' activities, keeping the organization on track toward
meeting its goals and making corrections as necessary. ✔Correct Answer-Controlling
A social entity that is goal directed and deliberately structured. ✔Correct Answer-Organization
The degree to which the organization achieves a stated goal. ✔Correct Answer-Effectiveness
The amount of resources—raw materials, money, and people—used to produce a desired volume of
output. ✔Correct Answer-Efficiency
An organization's ability to attain its goals by using resources in an efficient and effective manner.
✔Correct Answer-Performance
The understanding of and proficiency in the performance of specific tasks. ✔Correct Answer-
Technical skills
A manager's ability to work with and through other people and to work effectively as part of a group.
✔Correct Answer-Human skills
The cognitive ability to see the organization as a whole and the relationships among its parts.
✔Correct Answer-Conceptual skills
A manager who is at the top of the organizational hierarchy and is responsible for the entire
organization. ✔Correct Answer-Top managers
A manager who works at the middle level of the organization and is responsible for a major division
or department. ✔Correct Answer-Middle Managers
, A manager who is responsible for a specific work project that involves people from various functions
and levels of the organization. ✔Correct Answer-Project manager
A manager who is at the first or second level of the hierarchy and is directly responsible for
overseeing a group of production employees. ✔Correct Answer-First-line manager
A manager responsible for a department that performs a single functional task, such as finance or
marketing. ✔Correct Answer-Functional Manager
A manager responsible for several departments that perform different functions. ✔Correct
Answer-General managers
Using techniques that enable you to get more done in less time and with better results, be more
relaxed, and have more time to enjoy your work and your life. ✔Correct Answer-Time
management
A set of expectations for one's behavior. ✔Correct Answer-Role
Involves seeking current information from many sources. ✔Correct Answer-Monitor role
the first focus of management, which focused only on higher production ✔Correct Answer-
Classical perspective
A subfield of the classical perspective that emphasizes scientifically determined changes in
management practices as the solution to improving labor productivity. ✔Correct Answer-Scientific
management
Purveyor of scientific management ✔Correct Answer-Frederick Taylor
bar graph showing production managers what projects are being worked on and what stage they are
in at any given time ✔Correct Answer-Gantt Chart
Pioneered time and motion studies ✔Correct Answer-Frank and Lillian Gilbreth
Emphasizes management on an impersonal, rational basis through elements such as clearly defined
authority and responsibility, formal recordkeeping, and separation of management and ownership.
✔Correct Answer-bureaucratic organizations approach
introduced most of the concepts about bureaucratic organizations ✔Correct Answer-Max Weber
A subfield of the classical perspective that focuses on the total organization rather than the individual
worker and delineates the management functions of planning, organizing, commanding,
coordinating, and controlling. ✔Correct Answer-Administrative principles approach
a chain of authority extends from the top to the bottom of the organization and should include every
employee ✔Correct Answer-Scalar Chain
Uses mathematics, statistical techniques, and computer technology to facilitate management
decision making, particularly for complex problems. Also called the quantitative perspective.
✔Correct Answer-Management Science