Chapter 1 Flashcards
____ integrate and coordinate the short-range decisions and activities of first-line supervisory groups to achieve the long-range goals of the enterprise.
Middle managers
According to ____ management is the process of acquiring and combining human, financial, informational, and physical resources to attain the organization’s primary goal of producing a product or service desired by some segment of society.
Pringle, Jennings and Longnecker
Capacity of an engineer to achieve organizational objective effectively and efficiently.
Ability
Directly supervise non-managers. They hold titles such as foreman, supervisor, or section chief.
First-line managers
____ evaluate the performance of major departments, and evaluate leading management personnel to gauge their readiness for promotion to key executive positions.
Top managers
____ is a “creative problem-solving process of planning, organizing, leading and controlling an organization’s resources to achieve its mission and objectives”
Management
_____ the practitioners of the art of managing the application of science and mathematics. By this description, engineering has a limitless variety of possible disciplines
Engineers
According to ____ management is a set of activities (including planning and decision making, organizing, leading, and controlling) directed at an organization’s resources (human, financial, physical, and information) with the aim of achieving organizational goals in an efficient and effective manner.
Griffin
____ means by which people make possible the realization of human dreams by extending their reach in the real world
Engineering
An ___ is responsible for carrying out its management process.
organization’s senior management
According to ____ management is the work of creating and maintaining environments in which people can accomplish goals efficiently and effectively.
Albanese
_____ carry titles such as plant manager, division head, chief engineer, or operations manager.
Middle managers
Make plans of intermediate range to achieve the long-range goals set by top management, establish departmental policies, and evaluate the performance of subordinate work units and their managers.
Middle managers
Make short-range operating plans governing what will be done tomorrow or next week, assign tasks to their workers, supervise the work that is done, and evaluate the performance of individual workers.
First-line managers
____ is distinguished from other managers because he [or she] possesses both an ability to apply engineering principles and a skill in organizing and directing people and projects.
Engineering Manager
A _____ sometimes referred to as the process performance measurement and management system.
process management
_____ bear titles such as chairman of the board, president, or executive vice president; the top one of these will normally be designated chief executive officer (CEO).
Top managers
_____ responsible for defining the character, mission, and objectives of the enterprise.
Top managers
__ is a process consisting of planning, organizing, directing (or leading), and controlling.
Management
unique two types of job to qualify as engineering manager
the management of technical functions
the management of broader functions
Three skills are required for the managerial level.
Technical Skills
Interpersonal Skills
Conceptual Skills
Responsible for carrying out the plans and objectives of higher management, using the personnel and other resources assigned to them.
First-line managers
The five elements of the management process are ___.
planning
organizing
coordination
motivation
control
_____ must seek to find out the objectives of the organization, think of ways on how to achieve them, decide on the ways to be adapted and the material resources to be used, determine the human requirements of the total job, assign specific tasks to specific persons, motivate them and make sure that the activities are in the right direction.
Management
According to ____ management is the process of reaching organizational goals by working with and through people and other organizational resources.
Certo
_____ establish criteria for and review long-range plans.
Top managers
According to ____ management is the process of achieving desired results through efficient utilization of human and material resources.
Bedeian
_____ is the ability to avoid wasting materials, energy, efforts, money, and time in doing something or in producing a desired result. In a more general sense, it is the ability to do things well, successfully, and without waste
Efficiency
_____ is whether objectives are accomplished. The degree to which objectives are achieved and the extent to which targeted problems are solved
Effectiveness
it is the responsibility of the project manager to carry out a ____
project management process
According to ____ management is the process by which managers create, direct, maintain, and operate purposive organizations through coordinated, cooperative human effort.
McFarland
