A manager who coordinates and supervises the activities of operating employees and spend time working with and motivating their employees.
Who are first-line managers?
100
In charge of managing an organization’s human resources programs, engaging in HR planning, designs systems for hiring, training and evaluating employee performance.
Who are Human Resource managers?
100
Involve the ability to speak, listen, and write effectively. These are critical in day to day operations.
What are communication skills?
100
The first step in making decisions.
What is identifying the problem or opportunity?
100
Even though all entrepreneurs are different, this style of leadership is personality oriented and is generally task-oriented, driven, charismatic, and enthusiastic.
What is entrepreneurial leadership?
200
CEO’s and and COO’s are example of this level of management.
What are top-line managers?
200
Also known as a general manager, they are not associated with any type of specific functional area, but provide overall administrative guidance and leadership.
Who are administrative managers?
200
Involve the ability to deal effectively with other people, both inside and outside of the organization; an example is the ability to relate to people.
What interpersonal skills?
200
This is the step where managers decide on the best option that will solve the problem.
What is selecting an alternative?
200
Leadership where leaders consult workers before making decisions.
What is participative leadership?
300
Office managers, supervisors, and foremen are other names for this level of management; most upper level managers start here as well.
Who are first-line managers?
300
Responsible for an organization’s financial resources, accounting, and investments.
Who are financial managers?
300
Involve the ability to think in abstract terms and allow the manager to see the “big picture”.
What are conceptual skills?
300
This step requires time, planning, preparation of personnel, and having to assess its results.
What is implementing and evaluating the solution?
300
Leaders who have legitimate power of position.
Who are formal leaders?
400
They are the largest group of managers in most organizations and they implement strategies and policies created by top management.
Who are middle managers?
400
Responsible for facilitating the exchange of products between an organization and its customers and clients.
Who are marketing managers?
400
Special skills needed to accomplish a specialized activity; for example, the skills engineers need for their jobs.
What are technical skills?
400
After a problem has been defined, this is the next task; The more important the decision, the more attention must be put towards this stage.
What is generating alternatives?
400
Leadership that is very task-oriented, with little concern for employee opinions.
What is autocratic leadership?
500
An upper level executive who guides and controls an organizations overall fortunes and are responsible for creating the companies mission and strategy.
Who are top-line managers?
500
Manage systems that convert resources into goods and services, and are traditionally associated with manufacturing.
Who are operations managers?
500
Skills used to identify problems correctly, generate reasonable alternatives, and the “best” alternatives to solve the problem.
What are analytic skills?
500
The act of choosing one alternative from a set of alternatives.
What is managerial decision making?
500
Leaders who who do not have legitimate power of position and may or may not use their influence in support of the organization.