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Which of these options are correct? (Select all that apply)
Which of these options are correct? (Select all that apply)
- Option 2 (correct)
- Option 3 (correct)
- Option 4
- Option 1
This is an example statement that is true
This is an example statement that is true
False (B)
Example question?
Example question?
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The ______ barked
The ______ barked
Match the following programming languages with their primary usage:
Match the following programming languages with their primary usage:
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What is controlling?
What is controlling?
Comparing results to standards and correcting issues.
What are human skills?
What are human skills?
Equally important at all management levels.
What is delegation of authority?
What is delegation of authority?
Assigning responsibility to another person.
What is staff function?
What is staff function?
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What are staffing functions?
What are staffing functions?
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Managerial functions order?
Managerial functions order?
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What is planning?
What is planning?
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What is the process of Planning?
What is the process of Planning?
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What limits control?
What limits control?
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What goes with authority?
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Study Notes
- Establishing standards, comparing actual results with standards, and taking corrective action are steps in controlling.
- Human skills are equally important at all management levels.
- A general manager asking the sales manager to recruit a salesman is an example of delegation of authority.
- In line and staff organizations, the staff advises management.
- Recruiting, training, and appraisal are functions of staffing.
- The main advantage of functional organization is specialization.
- The management principle that each subordinate should have only one superior is unity of command.
- The correct logical order of managerial functions is planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling.
- Planning makes a blueprint of ideas and work.
- The proper sequence of the control process is:
- Establishment of work performance standards
- Measuring actual performance
- Comparing actual vs established standards
- Corrective action to eliminate deviations
- Decision-making is very fast in a line organization.
- Deciding what to do, when to do it, and how to do it is called planning.
- A narrow span of control allows a manager to supervise and control a large group of people effectively at one time.
- External factors that limit control include government policies, market changes, and economic changes.
- Authority should go hand in hand with responsibility.
- The number of subordinates a manager can supervise effectively is the span of control.
- Groups provide personal relationships at the workplace.
- The formation of groups at workplaces leads to job satisfaction, improved understanding from friends, and protection from external threats.
- A group of friends is not a formal group.
- The false statement about groups is that individuals feel unsecure in a group.
- Organizations establish a relationship between people, work, and resources.
- Policies and rules, where applicable, are plans that ensure discipline.
- Selecting an alternative involves experience, experimentation, research, and analysis.
- The goals of organizing include meeting organizational requirements (productivity, efficiency, quality) and satisfying individual employee needs (interests, challenge, achievement).
- Motivation is related to leading.
- The directing function of management includes issuing orders, supervising, providing leadership, and motivation.
- Establishing standards, comparing actual results, and taking corrective actions are steps in controlling.
- Execution involves everything except measuring performance against the plan.
- Successful communication involves the occurrence of a desried change.
- Abraham Maslow proposed the Needs Hierarchy theory of motivation.
- The most powerful personal objective of a Nobel Prize-winning chemist is pride of creativity.
- Removing unnecessary obstacles is not part of managerial control.
- Observations, reports, and statistical data determine performance.
- The control function embraces all of these.
- Effective communication requires information and understanding.
- Body language is a sign of effective non-verbal communication.
- Positive motivation makes people willing to do their best and improve their skills and performance.
- Guiding actual performance towards common goals is called directing.
- Effective communication at the directing level can be a free flow of ideas and information, suggestions, complaints.
- Basic physiological needs is the basic need of a human being.
- A good decision depends on recognizing the right problem.
- The main purposes of communication include sharing ideas, motivating, and improving understanding, except hiding information.
- Motivation based on force or fear is called negative motivation.
- Henry Fayol is the father of scientific management.
- Management involves getting activities completed efficiently and effectively with/through people.
- Management is a determinative function.
- Planning involves selecting missions, objectives, and actions to achieve them.
- Line organization is also known as Scalar organization.
- The line of authority from chief executives to the lowest level is the scalar chain.
- Esprit de corps, according to Henry Fayol, means "in union there is strength."
- Line organization is also known as Military Organization.
- Functional Organization is also known as Department Organization.
- Processing is not a function of the management process.
- Forecasting is the judgment of the future.
- Administration is a policy-making function.
- A branch manager is a middle-level management.
- Strategic plans are long-range plans.
- Human resource management focuses on men.
- Recruitment and selection methods depend on the objectives of the company.
- Supervisors can bring clarity in order and performance by showing and illustrating different stages of work gradually one at a time, demonstrating the use of tools and machines, showing the finished job to the worker.
- Supervisors should issue orders with no ambiguity and completeness to ensure the average worker understands the order
- Setting performance standards is included in the controlling function
- According to M.S. Hardly, planning is deciding in advance by involves the selection of objectives, selection of policies, and the selection of procedures and programs
- A project organization is called a temporary organization
- An organization is an open system
- Single-use plans are most suitable for projects.
- Matching people with jobs and their motivation can include salary, security, status, and satisfaction.
- Plans are made for future activities.
- Supervision makes plans for shorter time.
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