Manager Types
Basic Functions and Skills
Manager Roles
Trivia
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100

This type of manager is responsible for overseeing several departments that perform different functions.  

What is a General Manager?

100

This managerial function involves identifying goals for future organizational performance and deciding on the tasks and use of resources needed to attain them.

What is Planning?

100

In this role, managers transmit information to outsiders through speeches, reports, and other forms of communication, representing the organization to external stakeholders such as customers, partners, or the media.

What is a spokesperson?

100

This is the smallest planet in our solar system.

What is Mercury?

100

This is the mascot of CSULB.

What is Elbee?

200

These managers are at the first or second levels of management and are directly responsible for overseeing the production of goods and services.

What are Supervisory Managers?

200

This managerial function involves using influence to motivate people to achieve company goals.

What is Leading?

200

This informational managerial role involves forwarding information to other organization members by sending memos and reports or making phone calls.

What is the Disseminator Role?

200

This team played against the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVIII in 2024 and ended up losing the game.

What is 49ers?

200

In what year was California State University, Long Beach founded?

What is 1949?

300

This type of manager is in charge of departments such as finance and HR that support line departments.

What is a Staff Manager?

300

This managerial function involves assigning tasks, grouping tasks into departments, delegating authority, and allocating resources across the organization.

What is Organizing?

300

This interpersonal managerial role involves handling ceremonial and symbolic activities for the department or organization.

What is the Figurehead Role?

300

This element, represented by the symbol 'Fe,' is a key component of steel and plays a crucial role in transporting oxygen in the blood.

What is Iron?

300

This person is the current President of CSULB.

Who is Jane Conoley?

400

This type of manager is responsible for departments that perform a single task and have employees with similar skills. 

What is a Functional Manager?

400

This type of managerial skill involves mastery of methods, techniques, and equipment in specific functions, including specialized knowledge, analytical ability, and the competent use of tools and techniques to solve problems in a specific discipline.

What are Technical Skills?

400

This interpersonal managerial role pertains to the development of information sources both inside and outside of the organization.

What is the Liaison Role?

400

This English scientist is best known for formulating the laws of motion and the universal law of gravitation.

Who is Isaac Newton?

400

This popular dining hall on campus serves a variety of food options and is a central spot for student meals.

What is the Parkside Dining Hall?

500

Danna Hyde is the head of the finance department at Muumuu Manufacturing, Inc. Her level in the management hierarchy is that of a(n).

What is a Middle Manager?

500

These managerial skills encompass a manager’s ability to work with and through other people and to work effectively as a group member.

What are Human Skills?

500

This decisional managerial role involves resolving conflicts among subordinates or between the manager’s department and other departments.

What is the Disturbance Handler Role?

500

This entrepreneur co-founded OpenAI and currently serves as its CEO, playing a key role in advancing artificial intelligence technologies.

Who is Sam Altman?

500

This is the name of the iconic pedestrian bridge that crosses over a major road near the CSULB campus, connecting the campus to surrounding neighborhoods.

What is the Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden Bridge?