The Management Four
This management function involves anticipating trends and determining strategies and tactics to achieve organizational goals.
What is planning?
This broad explanation describes why an organization exists and where it is trying to go.
What is a vision?
CEOs, presidents, CFOs, and other key executives belong to this level of management.
What is top management?
This leadership style involves managers making decisions without consulting employees.
What is autocratic leadership?
Giving employees the authority and responsibility to make decisions without first consulting a manager is called this.
What is empowerment?
This function focuses on designing the organization’s structure and creating systems in which people and resources work together.
What is organizing?
These are broad, long-term accomplishments an organization wants to achieve.
What are goals?
General managers, division managers, and plant managers typically belong to this management level.
What is middle management?
Managers and employees work together to make decisions under this leadership style.
Managers and employees work together to make decisions under this leadership style.
Giving employees the education and tools they need to successfully exercise their new decision-making authority is called this.
What is enabling?
Creating a vision, communicating, guiding, coaching, and motivating employees are all part of this management function.
What is leading?
Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats are examined using this planning tool.
What is SWOT analysis?
Managers who directly supervise employees and evaluate their daily performance are at this level.
What is supervisory or first-line management?
Managers set objectives but give employees considerable freedom in deciding how to accomplish them under this style.
What is free-rein leadership?
Finding the right information, keeping it accessible, and making it available throughout the organization is this process.
What is knowledge management?
This management function measures whether actual performance matches organizational goals and standards.
What is controlling?
Top management uses this type of planning to determine the organization’s major goals and how resources will be used to achieve them.
What is strategic planning?
The ability to perform tasks in a particular discipline, such as accounting, selling, or software development, is this type of managerial skill.
What are technical skills?
Managers tend to produce order and stability, while these individuals are more likely to create vision and embrace change.
Who are leaders?
The first step in the control process is to establish these so performance can later be measured.
What are clear performance standards?
A manager determines where the company is going, builds the system to get there, motivates employees, and then measures the results. These four activities together define this process.
What is management?
Define the situation, describe and collect information, develop alternatives, decide, do, and determine whether the decision worked are known collectively by this nickname.
What are the Six Ds of decision making?
A manager who can see the organization as a whole and understand how its different parts relate to one another demonstrates this skill.
What are conceptual skills?
A hospital emergency requires immediate decisions, clear directions, and unquestioned coordination. According to the chapter, this leadership style may be especially effective.
What is autocratic leadership?
Standards such as “improve quality” or “increase efficiency” are inadequate because effective standards must possess these three characteristics.
What are specific, attainable, and measurable?