Function 1
This is the term for the systematic process of making decisions about goals and activities the organization will pursue.
Planning
What are the 4 functions of management?
1) Planning
2) Organizing
3) Leading
4) Controlling
Our understanding of reward power comes from the work of who?
Psychologist B.F. Skinner
The purpose of this management function is to ensure that the organization makes progress towards the established goals.
Controlling
Fort Worth, Texas, is the largest city in the United States without a major Big Four sports team (NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL)
Fort Worth, Texas
There are 3 main types of plans that a manager will use in their pursuit of company goals. Name two.
The three main types of plans include
1) Operational plans
2) Tactical plans
3) Strategic plans.
This is the term for the process of assembling and assigning the human, financial, physical, informational, and other resources needed to achieve company goals.
Organizing
A pre-game locker room speech is an example of which type of power (that makes followers want to do more than expected)?
Charisma Power
The control function of management is highly intertwined with which other management function?
Planning
This musical will be premiering at Oak Park on November 6 and running through the 9.
Tarzan
This is a term for a vital planning tool that provides an alternative course of action, allowing a manager to remain flexible and adapt quickly when an original plan doesn't go as expected
Contingency Plans
In the context of organizing, when thinking of a a football team's, players and coaches are examples of what resource within an organization?
Human resources
This form of power is the threat of punishment to influence others.
Coercive Power
This form of control is informal and guides employees through the organization’s culture, values, shared beliefs, and sometimes peer pressure rather than through official rules.
Clan Control
This city holds the title of the world's most populated city.
Tokyo, Japan
In planning, this form of analysis focuses primarily on the competitive environment of the industry or space in which the organization operates such as consumers, suppliers, competitors, new entrants, and substitutes.
External analysis
General Motors reorganized its company structure around four components—Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, and GMC.
This represents which type of organizational structure?
Product Structure
Because of the complexity of medicine, doctors possess a tremendous amount of which type of power?
Expertise Power
This form of control l uses information from previous results such as when NFL teams watch game film the day after a game.
Feedback Control
The preamble, amendments, and articles are all parts of this important United States document.
The Constitution
In the roadtrip analogy, how is the planning function depicted?
In this analogy the goal (planning) is to drive from Missouri to Missoula, Montana for a bluegrass festival
Intellectual properties such as copyrights, patents, and trademarks are an example of which type of company resource?
Informational Resources
What does Simon Sinek (a world renowned speaker and motivator) argue that every leader’s job is?
He states that the leader’s job is to make every member of the team feel safe.
If a manager uses too few control systems, they won’t be able to properly guide or monitor progress. If a manager puts too many control systems in place, employees may feel what? (specifically from the notes)
Micromanaged
Opening on Saturday at Union Station, this display will focus on a major historical maritime disaster.
The Titanic