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Collections of people who work together and coordinate their actions to achieve a wide variety of goals or desired future outcomes
What are Organizations?
The planning, organizing, leading, and controlling of human and other resources to achieve organizational goals efficiently and effectively.
What is Management?
a measure of how productively resources are used to achieve a goal.
What is Efficiency?
a measure of the appropriateness of the goals that managers have selected for the organization to pursue and the degree to which the organization achieves those goals
What is Effectiveness?
role of managers that involves identifying and selecting appropriate goals
What is Planning?
monitoring progress toward goal achievement and taking corrective action when needed
What is Controlling?
a management function that includes designing the structure of the organization and creating conditions and systems in which everyone and everything work together to achieve the organization's goals and objectives
What is Organizing?
A type of planning performed by managers that involves analyzing competitive opportunities and threats, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of the organization. Has a long time frame, typically three years or more.
What is Strategic Planning?
A type of planning that is intermediate range (1-3 years) that is designed to develop relatively concrete and specific means to implement the strategic plan.
What is Tactical Planning?
A type of planning that generally assumes the existence of organization-wide or subunit goals and objectives and specific ways to achieve them. Short range planning of less than a year
What is Operational Planning?
Role of management that involves the manager articulating a clear vision and energizing and enabling organizational members so they understand the part they play in achieving organizational goals.
What is Leading?
A manager who supervises first-line managers and is responsible for finding the best way to use resources to achieve organizational goals.
What are Middle Managers?
Management skill that involves the ability to analyze and diagnose a situation to distinguish between cause and effect
What are Conceptual Skills?
The specific set of departmental skills, knowledge, and experience that allows one organization to outperform the other.
What is Core Competency?
Downsizing an organization by eliminating the jobs of large numbers of managerial and non-managerial employees.
What is restructuring?
In 2015, nearly _____________ U.S. jobs were outsourced to other countries
What is 2.4 million?
Two or more people who interact with each other to accomplish certain goals or meet certain needs.
What is a Group?
Performance gains that result when individuals and departments coordinate their actions
What is Synergy?
A group that managers or non managerial employees form to help them achieve their own goals and meet their own needs.
What is an Informal Group?
A group composed of subordinates who report to the same supervisor; also called department or unit.
What is a Command Group?
A committee of managers or nonmanagerial employees from various departments or divisions who meet to solve a specific, mutual problem, also called an ad hoc committee.
What is a Task Force?
The creation of a new vision for a struggling company based on a new approach to planning and organizing to make better use of a company's resources and allow it to survive and prosper
What is Turnaround Management?
The shared of beliefs, expectations, values, norms, and work routines that influence how individuals, groups, and teams interact with one another and cooperate to achieve organizational goals.
What are Organizational Cultures?
a model that explains how personality may influence organizational culture
What is Attraction-Selection-Attrition Framework?
the process by which newcomers learn an organization's values and norms and acquire the work behaviors necessary to perform jobs effectively
What is Organizational Socialization?