The planning, organizing, leading, and controlling of human and other resources to achieve organizational goals effectively and efficiently.
What is the definition of management?
100
To measure how well productively resources are used and to measure the appropriateness of goals chosen by a manager.
What are efficiency and effectiveness?
100
The process manager’s use for identifying and electing appropriate goals and actions for the organization.
What is planning?
100
A demonstrated ability to analyze and diagnose a situation and to distinguish between cause and effect. Top managers require outstanding conceptual skills because their primary responsibilities are planning and organizing
What is conceptual skills?
100
Is a personal conviction about lifelong goals or objectives.
What is terminal value?
200
Managers decide how to use many of a society's most valuable resources.
What are its skilled employees, raw materials, and financial assesses?
200
The specific set of departmental skills, knowledge and experience that allows one organization to out perform another.
What are Core Competencies?
200
The task of structuring working relationships in a way that allows organizational members to work together (effectively and efficiently) to achieve organizational goals.
What is organizing?
200
Used to refer to a specific set of departmental skills, knowledge and experience that allows one organization to outperform its competitors.
What are Core Competencies?
200
Will guide an organization and its members in achieving organizational goals.
What are instrumental values?
300
Establishing accurate measuring and monitoring systems to evaluate how well the organization has achieved its goals.
What is controlling?
300
The ability of one organization to outperform other organizations because it produces the desired goods or services more efficiently and effectively than they do
What is a competitive advantage?
300
The articulation of a clear organizational vision for the organization’s members to accomplish through the energizing and enabling of employees to understand what part he/she will play in achieving the goal.
What is leading?
300
The ability to understand, alter, lead and control the behavior of other individuals and groups as well as the ability to communicate, coordinate and motivate people into a cohesive team. All levels of mangers strive to continuously hone and improve their human skills
What are human skills?
300
This is the process by which newcomers learn an organization’s values and norms and acquire the work behaviors necessary to perform jobs effectively. As a result, organizational values and norms are internalized.
What is socialization?
400
Planning choosing appropriate organizational goals and courses of action to best achieve those goals.
What is planning?
400
The process of creating new or improved goods and services or developing better ways to produce or provide them.
What is innovation?
400
The process of evaluating how well an organization has achieved it goals, resulting in taking corrective actions to improve performance or maintain results.
What is controlling?
400
The ability to convey confidence in employees' ability to be successful, especially at challenging new tasks; delegating significant responsibility and authority; allowing employees freedom to decide how they will accomplish their goals and resolve issues.
What is empowering others?
400
Describes the set of beliefs, expectations, values, norms, and work routines that influence how members of an organization relate to each other and work together to achieve organizational goals.
What is organizational culture?
500
Establish tasks that allow people to work together and motivate, coordinate and energize individuals and groups to work together to achieve organizational goals.
What are organizing and leading?
500
Collections of people who work together and coordinate their actions to achieve a wide variety of goals or desired future outcomes.
What is an organization?
500
Differentiate among three levels of management and understand the tasks and responsibilities of managers at different levels in the organizational hierarchy.
What are First-line managers; Middle-line managers; and Top managers?
500
Job specific skills and tasks required to perform a particular type of work or occupation. The technical skills required by managers are dependent upon their position within the organization.
What are technical skills?
500
This trait captures an individual’s beliefs concerning the amount of control they have over what happens to and around them.