Management Basics
This management skill involves thinking about abstract and complex situations.
Conceptual
This management function involves setting goals and deciding how to achieve them.
Planning
Adam Smith argued that productivity increases through division of this.
Labor
Max Weber's ideal organizational system was called a/an ___________.
Bureaucracy
After identifying criteria, managers assign these to each criterion.
Weights
This principle states that management is needed in all organizations.
Universality
First-line managers are directly involved with producing these.
Products
This management approach emphasized efficiency and rational decision-making.
Classical
Breaking jobs into narrow, repetitive tasks is division of ________.
Labor
The final step in decision making is evaluating the ________.
Outcome
First-line managers are involved with producing the organization's __________________.
products or services
Freelancing and short-term contract work are part of this economy.
Gig
Frederick W. Taylor founded __________ management.
Scientific
The quantitative approach grew largely from World War ________.
II
Logical, consistent choices are characteristic of ________ decision making.
Rational
A manager's primary focus is helping employees achieve these.
Goals
One of the four management functions involves motivating and directing employees.
Leading
Taylor sought the one best ________ to perform a job.
Way
Total Quality ________ focuses on continual improvement.
Management
Decision makers with limited information-processing ability exhibit bounded ________.
Rationality
This organizational structure empowers self-managing teams.
Holacracy
One of the four management functions involves arranging resources and tasks.
Organizing
Henri ________ identified management as a universal set of functions.
Fayol
Organizations that interact dynamically with their environment are considered ________ systems.
Open
Choosing a solution that is "good enough" is called ________.
Satisficing