Exam 13: Management, motivation, and Leadership: Bringing Business to Life

A firm that often works on special projects requiring the cooperation of people from several different functional areas would be likely to prefer a line organization for these projects.

Firms that want to be more responsive to the needs of customers tend to adopt what type of organization?

Yvon Chouinard,founder of Patagonia,has stated,"Make the best product,cause no unnecessary harm,and use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis." This is an example of which of the following?

Which of the following is the visual representation of the company's formal structure?

The performance standards used in the controlling function should be based on objectives established during the planning process.

Management is achieving the goals of an organization through planning,organizing,leading,and controlling organizational resources including people,money,and time.

What are the three basic types of management skills?

Marquita is a manager in Bigbux Inc.'s accounting department.Her primary responsibility is to develop,interpret,and communicate accounting information needed by her company's marketing and production managers to make better decisions.Marquita is a staff manager.

Douglas McGregor developed equity theory to explain the relationship between performance and reward.

Companies that are faced with turbulent environmental challenges are likely to find that a decentralized approach to their organization allows employees to respond more quickly to these challenges.

Bob Knight,former coach at Indiana University and Texas Tech,was known for his outpouring of emotion during games.College players knew that if you played for Coach Knight,you followed his lead without question.What style of leadership did Coach Knight have?

Strengths and weaknesses include factors that either build up or drag down the firm's performance.Which of the following describes their relationship to the organization?

Free-rein leadership often works well when dealing with experienced,highly professional individuals who take a great deal of pride in their work.

The Manley Corporation is a small business.Mike Manley is president.He has a vice president of production and a vice president of marketing.Each vice president has four employees who report to them.Because of the small size of the company,there are no specialists available to support and advise these managers.This simple organizational structure is an example of what type of organization?

Planning for unexpected events is also known as which of the following?

Which of the following must be specific and measurable,tied to a timeframe,and realistic but challenging in order to be effective?

The primary function of middle managers is to train,evaluate,and motivate nonmanagement employees.

Which type of managers train,motivate,and evaluate nonmanagement employees?

Which generation,now mostly in their teens and twenties,tend to be goal-driven,change-oriented,and idealistic?

Strategic goals are concrete benchmarks that managers use to measure performance in each key area of the organization.