The four functions of management.
What are Planning, Organizing, Leading and Controlling?
The purpose, or reason for being, of the organization.
What is a mission or mission statement?
Something that exists when objectives are not met.
What is a problem?
Corporate-level strategies of growth, stability, turnaround, and retrenchment are called these types of strategies.
What are grand strategies?
The process of combining tasks that each employee is responsible for completing.
What is job design?
The ability to use methods and techniques to perform a task is this type of management skill.
What is a technical skill?
People whose interests are affected by organizational behavior.
Who are stakeholders?
The process of taking corrective action to meet objectives.
What is problem solving?
Strategy level that focuses on managing multiple lines of business.
What is corporate-level strategy?
A graphic illustration of the organization's management hierarchy and departments and their working relationships.
What is an organizational chart?
The ability to work with people in teams is this type of management skill.
What are people skills?
The method used to transform inputs into outputs.
What is the systems process?
The process of selecting an alternative course of action that will solve a problem.
Used to determine an organization's internal environmental strengths and weaknesses and external environmental opportunities and threats.
What is a SWOT analysis (or situation analysis)?
Moving New Balance's employees to work on different parts of the assembly line represents this type of job expansion.
What is job rotation?
The ability to understand abstract ideas and select alternatives to solve problems is this type of management skill.
What are conceptual skills?
The NFL is a voluntary active participant with the United Way. This is an example of this level of corporate social responsibility.
What is social involvement?
This type of decision is usually made for recurring or routine situations.
What is nonprogrammed decision?
The level of strategy most involved when Adidas used its TaylorMade golf division to acquire Adams Golf in March 2012.
What is a business-level strategy?
What are informing, recommending, reporting, and full?
How effectively and efficiently managers use resources to achieve objectives is known as this.
What is organizational performance?
Bruce Pearl, head basketball coach at the University of Tennessee, was fired for recruiting violations. Pearl admitted to lying to NCAA investigators when they were looking into possible recruiting violations committed by the Tennessee coaching staff. This is an example of this level of corporate social responsibility.
What is social obstruction?
Rules, policies, and procedures are used for these types of decision.
What are programmed decisions?
With this strategy, the firm moves into new markets cautiously.
What is analyzing?
The process of building motivators into the job by making it more interesting and challenging.
What is job enrichment?