Which of these refers to the practices aimed at discovering and harnessing an organization's intellectual resources?
What is Knowledge management
100
Organizations that are affected by and that affect, their environment are called
What are open systems
100
Decisions encountered and made before, having objectively correct answers and solvable by using simple rules, policies or numerical computations are?
What are programmed decisions.
100
Which is the first step in the formal planning process?
What is a situational analysis.
100
What depicts the positions in the firm and how they are arranged?
What is an organization chart
200
The introduction of new goods and services
What is innovation
200
New methods of communication, production and even the development of entire new industries are the results of the changes in?
What is technology
200
New, novel, complex decisions having no proven answers are?
What are nonprogrammed decisions.
200
The outcome of situational analysis is?
What is the identification of planning assumptions, issues and problems
200
What is created through division of labor and job specialization?
What is differentiation
300
The process of working with people and resources to accomplish organizational goals.
What is management
300
What type of trends regarding how people think and behave have major implications for management of the labor force, corporate social actions and strategic decisions about products and markets.
What are societal trends
300
The initial step in the decision making process is to?
What is identify the problem?
300
The targets or ends the manager wants to reach are called?
What are goals
300
The organizational pyramid is commonly called the
What is hierarchy
400
Senior executives responsible for the overall management and effectiveness of the organization are called...?
What are strategic managers
400
The competitive environment consists of what?
What are those specific organizations with which the organization directly interacts
400
Once a problem is identified and properly diagnosed, the next stage in the decision making process involves?
What are generating alternative solutions.
400
A plan designed to achieve a set of goals that are not likely to be repeated in the future is called a(n)?
What is a single-use plan
400
A wide span of control builds a what type of organization.
What is a flat organization
500
Successful CEO's know that the change from a local to a global marketplace is?
What is gaining momentum and irreversible
500
Interest rates, inflation, the federal deficit and unemployment levels are all elements in which aspect of the macroenvironment?
What is the economy
500
A phenomenon that occurs in decision-making when group members avoid disagreement as they strive for consensus is?
What is groupthink
500
A policy developed for the yearly graduation ceremony at Easy Town High School can be described as what type of plan.