Management Attitudes and Techniques
The Global Enviroment
Famous Individuals
Management Theories and Ideals
Name That Approach
100
What is the difference between being EFFICIENT and being EFFECTIVE?
Doing things right, or getting the most output for the least amount of input. --------------- VS------------ Doing the right things, or doing those work activities that will result in achieving goals.
100
The research program that studies cross cultural leadership behaviors.
What is GLOBE?
100
The creator of apple and revolutionary individual that changed the way we see technology.
Who is Steve Jobs.
100
Where the view of the managers is that they have full control and they are solely responsible for the success and failure of the business.
What is Omnipotent View?
100
How many management approaches are there?
4 approaches
200
The belief that the best approaches and practices from the home country.
What is Ethnocentric Attitude?
200
European Union, North American Free Trade Agreement, and Association of Southeast Asian Nations are examples of?
What is Regional Trade Alliance.
200
This famous individual was the inventor and creator of Microsoft and is now one of the top 10 richest men in the world.
Who is Bill Gates
200
Managers only have a limited effect and cannot control factors outside of their control.
What is Symbolic View?
200
The use of quantitative techniques to improve decision making.
What is the Quantitative Approach?
300
A world-oriented view that focuses on using the best approaches & people from around the globe.
What is Geocentric Attitude?
300
An economic system in which resources are primarily owned and controlled by the private sector.
What is Free Market Economy?
300
They invented the device called the microchronometer that recorded worker's hands and body motions and the amount of time they spent doing that motion. The device is called Therbrigs and was created by.......
Who are Frank and Lillian Gilbreth.
300
This can be extremely valuable for building a team where all the participants have the same goals. Working together to improve efficiency or, possibly, communication with management could be some of the goals within a COMPANY.
What is Strong Culture?
300
The Hawthorn Studies and other research on organizational behavior was a large focus during this approach.
What is the Behavioral Approach?
400
The view that the managers in the host country know the best work approaches & practices for running their business.
What is Polycentric Attitude?
400
An economic system in which economic decisions are planned by a central government.
What is Planned Economy?
400
The functional view of the manager's job can be attributed to him. His principles of management include: division of work, authority, discipline, unity of command, unity of direction, subordination of individual interest of the general interest, remuneration, centralization, Scalar chain, order, equity, stability of tenure of personnel, initiative, and esprit de corps.
Who is Fayol?
400
The invisible barrier that separates women and minorities from top level management positions.
What is the Glass Ceiling.
400
The first study of management, which emphasizes rationality and making organizations and worker as efficient as possible.
What is the Classical Approach?
500
The process of viewing the world solely through one person's views or eyes.
What is Parochialism?
500
A broad term that refers to any and all types of international companies that maintain operations in multiple countries.
What is a Multinational Corporation?
500
This individual was a German sociologist who developed the theory and idea of an organization known as a "Bureaucracy". Hint: (Pg. 30)
Who is Weber
500
What types of laws are these? 1.) Equal Pay Act 2.) Civil Rights Act 3.) Age Discrimination in Employment Act.
What are Equal Employment Opportunity Laws.
500
A management approach that recognizes organizations as different, which means they face different situations and require different ways of managing.
What is the Contingency Approach?