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CCT112 Midterm Flashcards

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Manager?

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  • coordinates and oversees the work of other people
  • ensures organizational goals can be accomplished
  • gets things done
  • prepares strategic vision, breaks down vision
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Levels of Managtent

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  • Top Managers: (makes organization-wide decisions, establishes plans, goals all affecting the whole organization)
  • Middle Managers: (manage work of first-line managers)
  • First-Line Managers: manage work of non-managerial employees
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Organization

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deliberate arrangement of people to accomplish some specific purpose
- net profit, firms, hospital

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Characteristics of Organizations

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  • Distinct Purpose
  • Deliberate Structure
  • People
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Why are Managers Important?

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  • critical to get things done
  • leads a chain of command
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Managment

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coordinating, and overseeing work activities of others, so everything is completed efficiently and effectively

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Efficiency

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doing things right
- getting most output from least amount of input

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Effectiveness

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doing the right things
- attaining organizational goals

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Management Functions

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Planning: defining goals, establishing strategies to reach goals, developing plans to integrate and coordinate activities

Organizing: arranging and structuring work to accomplish goals

Leading: working with and through people to accomplish goals

Controlling: monitoring, comparing and correcting work

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Mintzberg’s Managerial Roles

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Roles: specific actions or behaviours expected of and exhibited by a manager

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What did Mintzberg do?

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identified 10 roles grouped around interpersonal relationships, the transfer of information, and decision making

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Types of Roles

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Interpersonal
- figurehead, leader, liason

Informational
- monitor, disseminator, spokesperson

Decisional
- entrepreneur, disturbance handler, recourse allocator, negotiator

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Management Skills

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Technical Skills
- knowledge and proficiency in a specific field

Human Skills
- ability to work well with other people

Conceptual Skills
- ability to think and conceptualize about abstract and complex situations concerning the organization

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Challenges Managers Today into the Future? (6)

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Technology
- must get employees on board with new tech
- oversee social interactions and use collaborative tech

Disruptive Innovation
- new products and processes that change the rules of the game

Social Media
- forms of electronic communication where users create online communities sharing ideas, information, personal messages

Ethics
- unethical business practices are seen in the news
- i.e… pharmaceutical firms raising drug prices 500%
- survival depends on building trust w customers, clients, employees

Political Uncertainty

Customer
- wo customer organizations would cease to exist
- demographics have a significant impact on how managers manage

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Reality of Work

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when u start working u will either manage or be managed

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Decision

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A choice between two or more alternatives

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Decision-Making Criteria (8)

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  1. identify a problem
  2. identify decision criteria
    - factors that are important to resolving the problem
  3. allocate weights to the criteria
    - criteria aren’t equally important, decide what weighs more and give priority accordingly
  4. develop alternatives
    - list ways to solve the problem
  5. analyze alternatives
  6. select an alternative
  7. implement alternative
  8. evaluate decision effectiveness
    - what was the outcome? Was it resolved?
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Rational Decision Making

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Choices that are logical, consistent, and maximize value

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Bounded Rationality

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Decision-making that’s rational but limited by an individual’s ability to process information

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satisfice

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accepting solutions that are “good-enough”

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Intuative Decision Making

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making decisions based on experience, feelings, and accumulated judgment

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Evidence-based Managment

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systematic use of the best available evidence to improve management practice

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Croudsourcing

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decision making approach where you discuss ideas and input from network of ppl outside traditional decision-makers

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Types of Decisions
Structured Problems & Programmed Decisions

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Structured Problems: straight forward, familiar, easily defined problems

Programmed Decisions: repetitive decisions can be easily handled by routine approach

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Tyeps of Programmed Decisions

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Procedure: series of steps used to respond to a well-structured problem

Rule: explicit statement tells managers what they can and can’t do

Policy: a guideline for making decisions

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Types of Decisions
Unstructured Problems & NonProgrammed Decisions

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Unstructured Problems: new or unusual, information is ambiguous or incomplete

Nonprogrammed Decisions: unique and nonrecurring, custom made decisions

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4 Styles of Decision Making

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directive, analytic, conceptual, and behavioural

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Heuristics

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“rule of thumb” can help make sense of complex, uncertain, or ambiguous information

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Cutting Edge Decision Making:
Design Thinking

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approaching management problems as designers approach design problems
- Collaborative, integrative, rational & emotional, out of the box

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Cutting Edge Decision Making:
Big Data & AI

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  • big data is big and complicated data sets
  • big data opened the door to the use of artificial intelligence
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Big Data

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quantifiable data analyzed by data processing
- powerful tool in decision making

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Machine Learning

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Data analysis that automates analytical model building

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Deep Learning

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  • machine learning uses algorithms
  • artificial neural networks simulated brain fucntion
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Analytics

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Use of mathematics, stats, predictive modelling machine learning to find patterns in data set

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Omnipotent View

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managers are directly responsible for an organization’s success or failure

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Symbolic View

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organization’s success or failure is due to external forces outside managers’ control

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environments - dynamic or stable

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Dynamic: environments change frequently

stable: environments change very little

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Specific Environment

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part of the environment directly relevant to the achievement of organizational goals
- suppliers, customers, competitors

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Organizational Culture

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shared values, principles, traditions, ways of doing things influencing how members act and differentiate one organization from the other

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Organizational Culture

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Shared values, principles, traditions, and ways of doing things influence how members act and differentiate one organization from the other

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identifying organizations culture

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background check, physical surroundings, HR

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6 dimensions of organizational culture

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adaptability, attention to detail, outcome orientation, people orientation, team orientation, integrity

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Globalization

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developing influence or operations in other countries

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Nationalism

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patriotic ideals and policies glorifying a country’s values

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Parochialism (Monolingualism)

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  • viewing the world through your own perspectives
  • inability to recognize differences between people
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Ethocentric

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view that home country has the best work practices

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Polycentric

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Managers in the host country know the best approaches

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Geocentric

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world-oriented view; wants to use best practices from around the globe

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Free Market Economy

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an economic system where resources are primarily owned and controlled by the private sector

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Planned Economy:

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economic system where economic decisions are planned by a central government

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National Culture—

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  • values and attitudes shared by individuals from a specific country
  • shapes behavior and beliefs about what is important
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Global Leadership and Organizational Behaviour Effectiveness (GLOBE)

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  • Power distance
  • Uncertainty avoidance
  • Assertiveness
  • Humane orientation
  • Future orientation
  • Institutional collectivism
  • Gender differentiation
  • In-group collectivism
  • Performance orientation
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Work Diversity

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people in an organization are different from and similar to one another

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Surface-level diversity

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Differences that may trigger certain stereotypes but that do not necessarily reflect the ways people think or feel

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Deep-levl diversity

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differences in values, personality, work preferences

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Bias

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tendency or preference toward a particular perspective or ideology

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Prejudice

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preconceived belief, opinion, or judgment toward a person or a group of people

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stereotyping

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judging a person based on a perception of a group to which that person belongs

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discriminating

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when someone acts out their prejudicial attitudes toward people who are the targets of their prejudice

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Glass Ceiling

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An invisible barrier that separates women and minorities from top management positions
- lack of mentoring
- sex stereotyping
- perceptions of family–work conflict

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Mentoring

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an experienced organizational member (a mentor) provides advice and guidance to a less experienced member (a protégé)

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Diversity skills training

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specialized training to educate employees about the importance of diversity and to teach them skills for working in a diverse workplace

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Social obligation

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  • firm engages in social actions bc of obligations to meet certain economic and legal responsibilities
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Classical view

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management’s only social responsibility is to maximize profits

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Socioeconomic view

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managers’ social responsibilities go beyond making profits to include protecting and improving society’s welfare

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Social responsiveness

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company engages in social actions in response to some popular social need

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Social responsibility

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A business’s intention, beyond its legal and economic obligations, to do the right things and act in ways that are good for society

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Green management

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managers consider the impact of their organization on the natural environment

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Information system for sustainability

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Information Systems (IS) have the potential to solve several sustainability issues
- smart cities

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Green IS

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focuses more on environmental and economic sustainability

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Ethics

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Principles, values, and beliefs that define right and wrong behaviour

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Code of ethics:

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formal statement of an organization’s primary values and the ethical rules it expects its employees to follow

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Independent social audits

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evaluate decisions and management practices in terms of the organization’s code of ethics

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Whistle-blower

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an individual who raises ethical concerns or issues to others
- Managers retaliating against whistle-blowers could face a ten-year prison sentence

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Social entrepreneur

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individual or organization that seeks out opportunities to improve society by using practical, innovative, and sustainable approaches

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Corporate philanthropy:

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can be an effective way for companies to address societal problems

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