Exam 11: Responsibility, Authority, and Delegation

Lisa recently joined the HR department at Tandem Corp,a cycle manufacturing firm.In her role as an HR executive,she is responsible for answering all employee queries on payroll issues.In this scenario,Lisa has a(n)________.

The most significant factor in determining whether an organization will have staff personnel is ________.

In which of the following roles do staff personnel help establish a mechanism for evaluating the effectiveness of organizational plans?

Jerry Jones,the owner of an American football team,had the final say over all personnel decisions,regardless of the views of other individuals in the team.Therefore,the football team is ________.

Functional authority consists of the right to give orders within a segment of the organization in which this right is normally nonexistent.

The first step in the functional similarity method of dividing jobs is ________.

Even though organizational objectives and other conditions within the management system might change,individual job activities should remain the same.

List a few guidelines for making delegation effective in an organization.

The HR department of a large IT firm is responsible for recruiting and training qualified employees for all the other departments within the organization.In essence,they are the suppliers of workers,and the various organizational departments needing workers are their customers.Under the given circumstance,identify the role played by the human resource department.

Which of the following refers to a situation where more than one individual is responsible for the same activity?

Which of the following statements is true about responsibility?

Which of the following exists when certain tasks are not included in the responsibility area of any individual organization member?

Authority is the right to perform or command.

Which of the following is the first step in the delegation process?

Which of the following is NOT one of the four key dimensions for appraising manager responsibility?

A responsibility gap exists when certain organizational tasks are not included in the responsibility area of any individual organizational member.

Responsible managers make sure that any gaps between their areas and those of other managers are securely filled.Which of the following key dimensions of responsible management behavior is this classified under?

The final step in the functional similarity method of dividing jobs is ________.

The first step in the functional similarity method of dividing job activities is to design specific jobs by grouping similar activities.

If speedy decision making is essential to an organization,the organization should ________.