Chapter 1 Don't Overthink It.
Someone whose primary responsibility is to carry out the management process?
Who/what is a manager?
Using resources wisely in a cost effective way is NOT the definition of "effective" management. It's the definition of THIS type of management (which also starts with the letter "e."
What is efficient?
When you set an organization's goal and deciding how best to achieve them, your using THIS management skill.
What is planning?
THIS philosophy that seeks out "one best way" to manage every kind of organization is widely criticized — but it's hard to find a company that ever put it into practice.
What is the universal perspective?
What is synergy?
Got a group of people working together in an organization to achieve a common goal? Congrats! You've got yourself one of THESE (regardless of whether its for-profit or non-profit).
What's an organization?
Being efficient is great, but you'll still have to make the right decisions and implement them successfully, if you want to be THIS type of manager (also starting with the letter "e")
What is effective?
THIS management skill is allows you to determine how activities and resources should be group. (It's also helpful to anyone who likes to keep things orderly.)
What is organizing?
If you're "THIS (one letter) Theory" type of employee, you're a one-dimensional, lazy, irresponsible person who has to be coerced or threated in to doing your job? (Who hired you in the first place?)
What is a Theory X employee?
You're not doing a great job, but you're not doing bad job either. You're keeping your productivity in step that of your peers. In other words, you're doing THIS.
What is soldiering?
You've got subordinates. You've got superiors. You've got a decent shot of being a major player one day, but right now, you've got THIS alliterative job.
What is middle manager/middle management?
Your communication skills allow you to convey and receive ideas and information. THESE skills let you communicate with, understand and motivate both individuals and groups.
What are interpersonal skills?
"Selecting a course of action from a set of alternatives" is a wordy way of describing THIS management (and life) skill.
What is decision making?
If you're "THIS (one letter) Theory" kind of employee , you're bright, internally motivated, and you've got tremendous potential. You're perfect (but you may or may not exist).
What is Theory Y?
If your organization has entered THIS phase of existence, it probably won't be around much longer. (Hurry up & use this 7 letter word beginning with "e" while you still have the chance!)
What is entropy?
If you agree with THIS perspective, your management decisions are contingent on the unique elements of the situation.
What is the contingency perspective?
A "scientific management" approach focuses on improving the performance of the individual worker, while THIS approach focuses on the organization as a whole.
What is administrative management?
What is leadership?
A business using THIS system, which discourages interaction with it's environment, would soon end up with the system's name on its door.
What is closed?
Used before the "assistant," this adjective describes someone who keeps an office running smoothly. Used before "manager," it describes someone who doesn't specialize in just one aspect of management, but instead is able to manage anything & everything?
What is administrative?
A set of activities — including planning, decision making, organizing, leading, and controlling — directed at an organization's resources, with the aim of achieving organizational goals efficiently and effectively.
What is management?
Management science focuses on developing mathematical models. It should never be confused with THIS, a focus on ways to improve the performance of individual workers.
What is scientific management?
Monitoring an organizations progress towards its goals is THIS management skill. (It's also describes the type of behavior your significant other is guaranteed to hate.)
What is controlling?
If you view your managerial responsibilities from a point of view that logical, rational and objective, you're practicing the science of management. If you rely on intuition, instincts and your personal experience, you practicing the THIS of management.
What is the art of management?
Impress your employer with your conceptual skills — your ability to think in the abstract. Impress your instructors with THESE skills — your ability to visualize appropriate responses to a given situation.
What are diagnostic skills?