Exam 1: Principles of Modern Management: Concepts and Skills

In building a career, an individual should be focused on ________ to qualify for the next planned job and not simply taking a job with the highest salary.

Which of the following situations best demonstrates an error made during the organizing stage of management?

________ resources are those ingredients that are used directly in the manufacturing of products.

Sara is a manager in a food processing company. Her primary function is to see that organizational goals are achieved. Which of the following must she discourage in order to promote this?

Neil is the plant manager at Serieux Manufacturing. He has just been given the production targets for the month and has determined the activities necessary to achieve these. He now has to decide who will perform the various activities best so that the output will be maximized, and he must assign the activities to those workers. Neil is performing the ________ function of management.

When referring to efficiency management gains during the manufacturing process, being efficient means that ________.

Which of the following is an error managers frequently make during the controlling function of management?

________ skills are necessary across all levels of management.

The first stage in career evolution is the ________ stage.

Which of the following activities include short-term planning, clarifying objectives of jobs in organizations, and monitoring operations and performance?

According to Robert Katz, technical skills involve ________.

Jacob, an upper-level manager, recently saw a project fail because he did not establish objectives for all important organizational areas during the initial stages. Jacob made a mistake during the ________ stage of the management process.

Seth, a manager in a growing organization, believes that creating departments leads to the formation of barriers in an organization. Not establishing departments appropriately can be a huge management mistake in the ________.

Roger is assessing the amount of time and costs involved in completing today's production. Roger is assessing his unit's ________.

George is identifying what tasks need to be completed and how many tasks each employee can effectively complete each day. George's activities are a part of the ________ function.

The ________ is characterized by self-analysis and the exploration of different types of available jobs.

Ben is a manager at Transit Logistics, a logistics company involved in transportation and storage. He is in charge of monitoring the schedules of the truck drivers who transport the goods. In this scenario, the capital resource(s) of the organization is/are the ________.

Managerial efficiency is the proportion of total organizational resources that contribute to productivity during the manufacturing process. The ________ this proportion, the more ________ the manager.

Jonah has been a team manager for eight years now. In that time, his performance has remained consistently satisfactory, but there have been no drastic changes. A junior colleague was recently promoted to department head and Jonah now reports to him. Jonah's career can best be described as being in the ________ stage.

According to Robert Katz, human skills are required for ________.