CHAPTER 1 AND 2 Flashcards
These are plans that describe the exact series of actions to be taken in a given situation.
Procedures
These are statements that either require or forbid a certain action
Rules
Specifically developed to implement courses of action that are relatively unique and are unlikely to be repeated
Single-Use Plans
A plan which sets forth the projected expenditure for a certain activity and explains where the required funds will come from
Budget
A plan designed to coordinate a large set of activities
Program
A plan that is usually more limited in scope than a program and is sometimes prepared to support a program
Project
A management function which refers to the structuring of resources and activities to accomplish objectives in an efficient and effective manner
Organizing
The arrangement or relationship of positions within an organization
Structure
This is a form of departmentalization in which everyone engaged in one functional
activity, such as engineering or marketing, is grouped into one unit.
Functional Organization
This type of organization is very effective in similar firms especially “single business
firms where key activities revolve around well-defined skills and areas of
specialization”
Functional Organization
This refers to the organization of a company by a division that brings together all those
involved with a certain type of product or customer
Product or Market Organization
This is appropriate for a large corporation with many product lines in several related
industries
Product or Market Organization
An organizational structure in which each employee reports both a functional or division manager and to a project or group manager
Matrix Organization
Refers to a manager’s right to tell subordinates what to do and then see that they do it
Line Authority
A staff specialist’s right to give advice to a superior.
Staff Authority
A management is?
an art
Engineers can become good managers only through…
effective career planning
What management functions refer to the process of anticipating problems, analyzing them, estimating their likely impact, and determining actions that will lead to the desired outcomes and goals?
Planning
What refers to establishing interrelationships between people and things in such a way that human and material resources are effectively focused toward achieving the goal of
the company?
Organizing
What management function involves selecting candidates and training personnel?
Staffing
What management function involves orienting personnel in the most effective way and channeling resources?
Organizing
Actual performance normally is the same as the original plan and therefore it is necessary to check for deviation and to take corrective action, this action refers to what management function?
Controlling
What refers to management function which is to encourage others to follow the example set for them, with great commitment and conviction?
Leading
What refers to a principal function of lower management which is to instill in the workforce a commitment and enthusiasm for pursuing the goals of the organization?
Motivating
Middle management level undertakes what planning activity?
Intermediate Planning
Strategic planing is undertaken in which management level?
Top management Level
What is defined as the process of planning, organizing, and controlling operations to reach objective efficiency and effectively?
Operations Management
For a project manager to achieve this given set of goals through other people, he must have a good
interpersonal Skills
WHAT REFERS TO a DESCRIPTION OF WHETHER THE OBJECTIVES are accomplished?
Effectiveness
What type of authority refers to a specialist right to oversee lower level personnel involved in the project regardless of the personnel’s assignment in the organization?
Functional Authority
Refers to the activity combining “technical knowledge” with the ability to organize and coordinate worker materials, machinery and money.
Engineering Management
A function of an engineer where the engineer is engaged in the process of learning about nature and codifying this knowledge into usable theories.
Research
Refers to evaluation of alternatives using any technique in a group classified as rational and analytical.
Quantitative Evaluation
Which of the following is the sequential steps of decision making?
1. Weigh the evidence
2. Assessing alternative solutions
3. Identify the decision
4. Choose alternative
5. Take action
6. Review your decision
7. Gather information
3-4-5-6-7-1-2
Which of the following is the sequential steps of communication?
1. feedback
2. idea formation
3. encoding
4. channel selection
5. decoding
2-3-4-5-1
It is a two-way process wherin the message in the form of ideas thoughts, opinion is transmitted?
Communication
Which technique will the manager use when evaluation alternative using quantitative evaluation?
Rational and Analytical techniques
What refers to a process of influencing and supporting others to work enthusiastically toward achieving objectives?
Power
What year did the romans started road building?
600 BC to 400 AD
Where the engineer undertakes the activity of turning a product concept to a finished physical item.
Design and Development
Where the engineer works in a unit where new products or parts are tested for workability.
Testing
Where the engineer is directly in charge of production personnel or assumes responsibility for the product
Manufacturing
where engineer is either directly in charge of the construction personnel or may have responsibility of the construction process
Construction
where the engineer may find employment in the government performing any of the various tasks in regulating, monitoring, and controlling the activities of various institutions, public or private.
Government
where the engineer gets employment in a school ad is assigned as a teacher of engineering courses.
Teaching
where the engineer is assigned to manage groups of people performing specific tasks.
Management
defined as the “creative problem-solving process of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling an organization’s resources to achieve its mission and objectives”
Management
Management is a process consisting of…
Planning Directing, and Controlling
refers to the capacity of an engineer manager to achieve organizational objectives
Ability or Managerial Ability
three general preconditions for achieving lasting success as a manager
ability, motivation to change, and opportunity
Two requirements of opportunity for successful management
Obtaining a suitable managerial job and Finding a supportive climate
defined as “the process of identifying and choosing alternative courses of action in a manner appropriate to the demands of the situation”
Decision-Making
2 components of environment
Internal and External environment
refers to organizational activities within a firm
Internal environment
refers to the variables that are outside the organization and not typically within the short-run control of top management.
External environment
refers to the process of selecting among alternatives representing potential solutions to a problem.
Choice-making
Refers to carrying out the decision so that the objective sought will be achieved
Implementation
Refers to the process which requires checking at each stage of the process to assure that the alternatives generated, the criteria used in evaluation, and the solution selected for implementation are in keeping with the goals and objectives.
Feedback
Refers to action made to ensure that activities performed match the desired activities or goals.
Control
This term refers to the evaluation of alternatives using intuition and subjective judgment.
Qualitative evaluation
A technique which enables engineer managers to schedule, monitor, and control large and complex project by employing three time estimates for each activity.
PERT
This is a network technique using only one time factor per activity
CPM
defined as the “collection of past and current information to make predictions about the future.”
Forecasting
A forecasting method that examines the association between two or more variables.
Regression Analysis
a model constructed to represent reality, on which conclusions about real-life problems can be used.
simulation
When one independent variable is involved, it is called
Simple Regression
When two or more variables are involved, it is called
Multiple Regression
A quantitative technique that is used to produce an optimum solution within the bounds imposed by constraints upon the decision.
Linear Programming
A quantitative technique where samples of the population are statistically determined to be used for a number of processes, such as quality control and marketing research.
Sampling Theory
refers to the “rational way to conceptualize, analyze, and solve problems in situations involving limited, or partial information about the decision environment.”
Statistical decision theory
Selects the decision alternative having the maximum expected payoff, or the minimum expected loss if he working with a loss table.
Bayes Criterion
