Management Overview Quiz

Identifying goals for future organizational performance and deciding on the tasks and use of resources needed to attain them.

Assigning tasks, grouping tasks into departments, delegating authority, and allocating resources across the organization.

<p>The use of influence to motivate employees to achieve organizational goals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Monitoring employees' activities, determining if the organization is moving toward its goals, and making corrections as necessary.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A social entity that is goal-directed and deliberately structured.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The degree to which the organization achieves a stated goal or succeeds in accomplishing what it tries to do.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The amount of resources used to achieve an organizational goal.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The attainment of organizational goals by using resources in an efficient and effective manner.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The cognitive ability to see the organization as a whole system and the relationships among its parts.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The manager's ability to work with and through other people and to work effectively as a group member.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The understanding of and proficiency in the performance of specific tasks.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Individuals at the top of the hierarchy responsible for the entire organization.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They work at middle levels of the organization and are responsible for business units and major departments.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A project manager is responsible for a temporary work project that involves the participation of people from various functions and levels of the organization.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They are directly responsible for the production of goods and services.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Functional managers are responsible for departments that perform a single functional task and have employees with similar training and skills.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They are responsible for several departments that perform different functions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Using techniques that enable you to get more done in less time and with better results.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A set of expectations for a manager's behavior.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Activities used to maintain and develop an information network.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Roles that pertain to relationships with others and are related to the human skills described earlier.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Roles that pertain to those events about which the manager must make a choice and take action.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Individuals who are not affiliated with a specific organization but work on a project-by-project basis.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Characterized by routine, specialized tasks, and standardized control procedures.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A work environment that is free-flowing and flexible.</p> Signup and view all the answers