Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Miscellaneous
100

The study of moral obligation involving right versus wrong

ethics

100

What type of uncertainty is the inability to predict the consequences of a particular decision?

Response

100

The ongoing process of ensuring a competitively superior fit between an organization and its changing environment

Strategic Management

100

A decision must be made on the basis of incomplete but reliable factual information.

Condition of risk

200

Abstract ideals that shape ones thinking and behavior

values

200

What are the 4 organizational responses to uncertainty?

Defenders, Prospectors, Analyzers, Reactors

200

Predictions, projections, or estimates of future situations

Forecasts

200

Tendency to evaluate positive information favorably and negative information unfavorably.

Framing error

200

What does TED mean?

Technology, entertainment, design conference

300

The notion that corporations have an obligation to constituent groups in society other than stockholders and beyond that prescribed by law or union contract

Corporate Social Responsibility

300

What are the 3 types of planning?

strategic, intermediate, and operational 

300

What does the SWOT in SWOT Analysis stand for?

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats

300

Individuals and organizations get locked into losing course of action because “quitting is personally and socially difficult.”

Escalation of commitment

300

How many kids does Rob have?

0

400

The four corporate strategies pertaining to social responsibility

 Reaction, Defense, Accommodation, Proaction

400

What are the 3 types of Uncertainty in order?

State, Effect, and Response

400

when a management team is more productive because its members have complementary rather than identical skills

Management Synergy

400

When making a complex, important, and nonroutine decision, under new or large unfamiliar circumstances.

Nonprogrammed decisions

400

A group technique in which any and all ideas are recorded.

Brainstorming

500

What is one way to encourage ethical conduct within the organization?

ethics training, ethical advocates, codes of ethics, or whistle-blowing

500

The type of chart used for scheduling by showing the timelines of steps

GANTT Chart

500

What is the formula for strategic management?

Strategic management = strategic planning + implementation + control

500

Difference between an actual state of affairs and a desired state of affairs.


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