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A Level Business (AQA) > 3.2 - Managers, Leadership and Decision Making > Flashcards

3.2 - Managers, Leadership and Decision Making Flashcards

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McGregor Theory X Managers

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Believes:
- Average worker is lazy and dislikes work
- Workers need to be controlled and directed

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What is forecasting?

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  • Process of predicting future events or trends
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What is organising?

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  • Structuring resources to achieve objectives efficiently
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What is commanding?

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  • Issuing orders and overseeing their execution
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What is co-ordinating?

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Harmonising activities and efforts towards a common goal

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What is controlling?

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  • Monitoring performance and taking corrective action
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McGregor Theory Y Managers

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  • Believe workers enjoy work and can take responsibility
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What is an autocratic leadership style?

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  • Where the boss makes decisions without consulting subordinates
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What is a democratic leadership style?

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  • Where the boss empowers subordinates through delegation and consultation
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What is a paternalistic leadership style?

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  • Where the boss treats staff like their family, and cares for their needs
  • Allows them to input ideas but just like parents, will have the final say
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What is a Laissez-faire leadership style?

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  • Where their is freedom for workers with minimal input from the boss/leader
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What are decision trees?

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  • Mathematical models aiding decision making with probabilities
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What is probability?

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  • The likelihood of an event occurring, ranging from 0 to 1
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What is the expected value?

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  • Financial value calculated by multiplying effect with probability
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What is the net gain?

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  • The value obtained from a decision after consideration costs
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What is scientific decision making?

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  • Data driven, time consuming, no guarantee of the right decision
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What is a hunch?

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  • An intuition based decision making technique, quick but hard to justify for risky business decisions
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Risk vs Uncertainty

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  • Risk can be estimated, uncertainty lacks information for probability assessment
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What is opportunity cost?

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  • The value of the next best alternative forgone in decision making
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What is inventory control?

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  • Automated stock ordering and tracking systems for managing inventory
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What is market research?

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  • Utilises online and mobile customer surveys for gathering customer feedback
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What are business objectives?

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  • Objectives which set the framework for decision-making processes based on goals and budgets
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What is organisational structure?

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  • Defines decision-making authority and structure within a business
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What is attitude to risk?

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  • Influences decision making culture by encouraging or discouraging risk-taking
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What is availability of data?

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  • Crucial for supporting a scientific approach to decision making
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What is the external environment?

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  • The external factors that affect business decisions
  • e.g. competition, economy
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What is a trade-off?

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  • A compromise where something is given up in exchange for something else
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What is the difference between shareholders and stakeholders?

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  • Shareholders own shares in a company and earn dividends, stakeholders are anyone with an interest in the business
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What are stakeholder objectives?

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  • The desires of different stakeholders like shareholders, employees, customers, suppliers and the local community
30
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What is stakeholder mapping?

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  • A matrix model by Professor Mendelow to manage and prioritise stakeholder needs
31
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What is the stakeholder matrix?

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  • Balances stakeholder power against interest in the organisation
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What is power in business?

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  • The ability to influence organisational strategy or project resources
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What is interest?

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  • The level of concern a stakeholder has for the organisations or projects success
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What is the ‘shareholders first view’?

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  • A historical focus on profit to satisfy business owners/shareholders
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What is conflict between stakeholders?

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  • Profit focus for shareholders may hinder other stakeholders objectives
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What is operations management?

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  • Management of processes and decisions in production and delivery
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What is the transformation process?

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  • Describes internal business activities converting inputs into outputs
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What are operational objectives?

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  • Specific goals related to production and delivery processes
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What is cost and volume?

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  • Factors including unit cost, productivity, and scale of production
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What is quality?

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  • Key challenge for businesses
  • Includes reliability and customer loyalty
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What is speed?

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  • The measure of how quickly good or services are produced
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What is flexibility?

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  • The ability to adapt production to changes in demands or customer needs
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What are environmental practices?

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  • The focus on sustainable practices and meeting environmental legislation
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What is added value?

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  • Process of increasing worth by transforming materials into products
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What is unit cost?

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  • Total costs divided by total units produced
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What is productivity?

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  • A measure of units produced per time period or per employee
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What is contribution per unit?

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  • Profit earned per item sold
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What is reliability?

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  • Frequency of malfunctions or errors
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What is customer loyalty?

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  • The percentage of repeat business from satisfied customers
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What is labour productivity?

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  • Output per employee or production line
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What is capacity utilisation?

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  • Proportion of potential output actually being achieved
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What are order lead times?

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  • Time taken between receiving and processing an order
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What is product innovation?

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  • Launching new or improved products into the market
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What is process innovation?

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  • Finding more efficient ways producing existing products

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