Managers and stuff
The function of management that determines what an organization needs to do and how to get it done.
What is Planning?
A company is split into departments based on counties in the state. This type of departmentalization is called:
What is Geographic?
A form of flextime that allows people to perform some or all of a job away from standard office settings... also called working from home.
What is Telecommuting?
The processes and behaviors used by someone, such as a manager, to motivate, inspire, and influence the behaviors of others.
What is Leadership?
What are the four functions of management?
What are:
Planning
Organizing
Leading
Controlling?
This type of analysis help a manager create an effective corporate strategy by matching the organization and its environment.
What is SWOT Analysis?
Firms with production, marketing, human resource, and finance departments have this form of departmentalization.
What is Functional?
A person’s ability to understand how others are feeling even without being explicitly told.
What is Empathy?
This approach to leadership recognizes leaders as tall, intelligent, dominant, self-confident, and energetic.
What is Trait Approach?
What type of manager is a CEO? (top manager, middle manager, first-line manager)
What is a Top Manager?
This is the function of management that monitors the organization's performance to ensure that it is meeting its goals.
What is Controlling?
A type of organizational structure of decentralized companies with relatively few layers of management.
What is a Flat Organization?
In this theory, people evaluate their treatment relative to the treatment of others. If they are treated similarly to others in their position they will be more motivated.
What is Equity theory?
A manager chooses not to enforce a rule because of unusual circumstances. This form of leadership is called...
What is Situational?
Total package of rewards that organizations provide to individuals in return for their labor.
What is Compensation System?
This is a basic management skill. Without this skill an organization may waste a lot of time.
What are Time Management Skills?
Which building block of the organizational structure is determining who will do what.
What is Specialization?
Theory of motivation holding that people are motivated to work toward rewards that they want and that they believe they have a reasonable chance of obtaining.
What is Expectancy Theory?
This approach to leadership emphasizes the actions taken by an effective leader rather than any specific traits.
What is Behavioral Leadership?
The set of forces that cause people to behave in certain ways.
What is Motivation?
Which one of the functions of management is the process of guiding and motivating employees to meet an organization's objectives?
What is Leading?
Organization in which most decision-making authority is held by upper-level management.
What is a Centralized Organization?
A set of expectations held be an employee concerning what he or she will contribute to an organization (contributions) and what the organizations will provide in return (inducements).
What is Psychological Contract?
A leader that attracts and inspires support and acceptance simply by their attitude and personality.
What is a Charismatic Leader?
This is the conclusion that workers are more productive if management pays attention to them. It is known as the ___________ effect.
What is Hawthorne?