Planning
Defining goals, establishing a strategy for achieving those goals, and developing plans to integrate and coordinate activities
What is planning?
The assignment of specific tasks to subordinates along with the authority to carry out those assignments
What is delegation?
The ability to influence others to pursue the goals the leaders think are important and desirable
What is leadership?
How old Hopps is
What is 35?
The number of students in our class
What is 24?
A statement of an organization’s purpose
What is a mission?
A pictorial representation of formal authority relationships in an organization at one point in time
What is an organization chart?
Believes that all decision-making authority must be retained by the leader because employees are unwilling and unable to make sound decisions
What is an autocratic leader?
How old Hopps' daughter is
What is 3?
The youngest student in our class
Who is Yustyna?
The four parts of a SWOT analysis
What are strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats?
The number of subordinates that report directly to a manager
What is span of control?
Allows their followers to have the autonomy to make their own decisions and manage their own desks.
What is a laissez-faire leader?
What kind of pet Hopps has
What is a rabbit?
The oldest student in the class
Who is Defne?
Desired outcomes or targets
What are goals?
The right given to managers to take certain actions themselves or to require their subordinates to take certain actions
What is authority?
When a person works hard at a task because of a promise of a reward
What is extrinsic motivation?
What month Hopps' birthday is in
What is December?
The student who travelled the furthest to take Business Management
Who is Jim?
A choice between two or more alternatives
What is a decision?
The four dimensions that organizations are analyzed along
What are formalization, centralization, complexity, and specialization?
Involves reducing the number of days that employee work each week, but increasing the number of hours worked each day (4 days of 10 hour shifts)
What is a compressed workweek?
How Hopps drinks his coffee
What is black?
The student with "perfect" attendance (no sick days, no field trips, no excused)
Who is Cherise?