Exam 1: Introduction to Management and Organisations

__________ developed a categorization shceme for defining what managers do, consisting of 10 different but highly interrelated roles.

Budgeting is associated with the management functions of planning and .__________

Mangerial Basic Training (Scenario) Imagine that your marketing company has just merged with a manufacturing organization. You have been asked to help provide some "basic" managerial training to the engineers in the research and development unit of the new sister company. To make sure you are covering the necessary issues, your boss has asked to see an overview of materials that you will be providing the engineers. -Many of the engineers in the group are unclear about what managers actually do. Your training materials explain that a manager's job focuses on ____________.

The process of monitoring, comparing, and correcting is called __________ .

The three essential managerial skills include ____________.

Mangerial Basic Training (Scenario) Imagine that your marketing company has just merged with a manufacturing organization. You have been asked to help provide some "basic" managerial training to the engineers in the research and development unit of the new sister company. To make sure you are covering the necessary issues, your boss has asked to see an overview of materials that you will be providing the engineers. -One of the first things the engineers need to learn is that ___________are the people who direct the activities of others in an organization.

Resource allocation and disturbance handling are both considered decisional roles.

Mangerial Basic Training (Scenario) Imagine that your marketing company has just merged with a manufacturing organization. You have been asked to help provide some "basic" managerial training to the engineers in the research and development unit of the new sister company. To make sure you are covering the necessary issues, your boss has asked to see an overview of materials that you will be providing the engineers. -Now that both companies are merged and are a systematic arrangement of people set to accomplish a specific purpose, they could be described as a(n) ___________.

The four contemporary functions of management are planning, organizing, leading, and controlling.

The distinction between a managerial position and a non- managerial position is ____________.

The Perfect Manager (Scenario) Sarah has proven herself to be an able manager. Her section has a high project completion rate with the highest- quality produ the lowest defects in her division. In addition, she accomplishes this with fewer full- time employees than other managers. Some say that the secret of her success is in her ability to delegate responsibility and her understanding of the basic "management functions." -The "management functions" exemplified by Sarah include all but which of the following?

Which of the following skills are more important at lower levels of management, as these managers are dealing directly with employees doing the organization's work?

Efficiency refers to ___________.

The roles of figurehead, leader and liaison are all interpersonal roles.

A manager's success is typically ____________.

Directing and motivating are part of the controlling function of management.

Yusuf the Manager (Scenario) As a production supervisor, Yusuf decides on Friday afternoon how many units of output his employees will be able to produce and on which days certain products will be run in his department. He also decides which of his employees are going to be responsible for operating which machines within the department next week, as his employees are multi- skilled assemblers. On Monday, he informs his employees of their assignments to specific machines by handing out assignment sheets. He tells the employees that the schedule is going to be difficult this week due to the increased number of units. He goes on to tell them that he is sure they can fulfill the schedule because they are such good and skilled employees. Each day during the week, Yusuf checks the amount of output that the employees have completed and the number of units that have been rejected. -When Yusuf decides how many units of output his employees will be able to produce and on which days certain products will be run, he is performing which of the management functions?

Managers with good___________ are able to communicate, motivate and lead to get the best out of their people.

Someone who works with and through other people by coordinating their work activities in order accomplish organizational goals is .

An automobile manufacturer that increased the total number of cars produced at the same cost, but with many defects, would be ___________