Chapter 9 Flashcards
What is the process of integrating resources for accomplishment of objective?
Management
What is a group of people working together in a structured and coordinated way to achieve a goal?
organization
What is delegation from top to lower levels of management and the right of managers to direct others and take action because of their position?
Authority
What is a state of being responsible to one’s self, to some organization, or even to the public?
Accountability
What is the obligation to perform an assigned activity or see that someone else performs it?
Responsibility
What is doing things right?
efficiency
What is doing the right things?
Effectiveness
What term has been used up to this point to refer to anon who is responsible for people and other organization resources?
manager
The traditional organization model is a pyramid with first-line managers as a ______.
base
What type of organization model focusses on managers coaching/caring for employees who will be caring for customers?
TQM
- Creating smaller organizational units
- forming cross-functioning teams
- empowering employees to make decisions
- reducing the number of organization levels
- Placing an emphasis on vision and values
- Finding ways to take advantage of the internet
are competitive and technical changes
managers also can be classified according to the ______ of organizational activities for which they are responsible
range
Who is responsible for all the activities of a unit?
general manager
Who is responsible for only one area of organizational activity, such as the bar?
functional manager
Who described the manager’s job in terms of various roles, which he referred to as organized sets of behaviors identified with a position. He described the position as being composed of 10 different but closely related roles.
Mintzberg (1980)
What are the three main topics of Mintzbergs managerial theory?
Interpersonal roles, informational roles, decisional roles
What are the 10 managerial roles of Mintzbers theory?
INTERPERSONAL ROLES 1. Figurehead 2. Leader 3. Liaison INFORMATIONAL ROLES 4. Monitor 5. Disseminator 6. Spokesperson DECISIONAL ROLES 7. Entrepreneur 8. Disturbance Handler 9. Resource Allocator 10. Negotiator
What informational managerial role says the manager constantly searches for information to use to become more effective?
Monitor
What informational managerial role says the manager transmits information to subordinates who otherwise would probably have no access to this information?
disseminator
What informational managerial role says the manager is closely akin to the figurehead role
spokesperson
What decisional managerial role says the manager is the voluntary initiator of change?
entrepreneur
What decisional managerial role says the manager responds to situations that are beyond his or her control?
disturbance handler
What decisional managerial role says the manager decides how and to whom the resources of the organization will be distributed?
resource allocator
What decisional managerial role says the manager participates in a process of give-and-take until a satisfactory compromise is reached?
negotiator
What Interpersonal managerial role says the management experts as the representational responsibility of management?
figurehead
What Interpersonal managerial role is a manager in change of an organization or unit also is responsible for the work of the staff?
leader
What Interpersonal managerial role by dealing with people both inside and outside of the organization?
Liaison
What is an ability that can be devoted and that is manifested in performance?
skill
What type of skill involves an understanding of, and proficiency in, a specific kind of activity, particularly one involving methods or techniques?
technical skill
What type of skill concerns working with people and understanding their behavior?
Human or interpersonal skill
Who indicated that, human skill cannot be a ‘something thing’ and described two aspects of human skill as leadership within the managers own unlit and skill in intergroup relationships
Katz (1974)
What type of skill is the ability to view the organization as a whole, recognizing how various parts depend on one another and how changes in one part affect other parts?
conceptual skill
what type of skill is more important at the lower levels of management, identified as non supervisory and supervisory?
technical skill
What type of skill is essential at every level of management?
Human skill
What type of skill increases with movement up the ranks of the organization?
conceptual skill
What is management functions of determining in advance what should happen?
Planning
What represent the desired future conditions that individuals, groups, or organizations strive to achieve?
Goals
What are merely goals, or end points, and set the direction for all managerial planning?
objectives
What is a general guide to organized behavior developed by top-level management
Policies
What is the chronological sequence of activities?
Procedure
What details for one step in a process?
Method
What are specification of action, stating what must or must not be done?
Rules
What are plans for repetitive action, that are used over and over again?
standing plans
what are single purpose, or not repeated but remain as part of the historical records of an organization?
single-use plans
What type of planning greeters to short-range versus long-range planning?
time span
What is the thread or underlying logic that holds a business together?
strategy
What are the differences between strategic planning and long-range planning?
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What is management function of grouping activities, delegating authority, and coordination relationships, horizontally and vertically?
organizing
What is management function of determining the appropriate number of employees needed by the organization for the work that must be accomplished?
staffing
What is designed to ensure that the organization’s labor requirements are met continuously?
Human resources planning
What are concerned with developing a pool of job applications and evaluating and choosing among them?
Recruitment and selection
What are processes designed first to acquaint newcomers with the organization and its goals and policies and to inform them of their responsibilities?
Orientation, training, and development
What is a concerned with comparison of an individuals performance with established standards for the job?
Performance appraisal
What is management function of directing human resources for the accomplishment of objectives?
Directing
What is management function of ensuring that plans are being followed?
controlling
What are created in the planning process define the dimensions of what is expected to happen?
standards
WHAT does PERT stand for?
Program Evaluation Review Technique
Who stated what traditional organization was?
Kast & Rosenzweig (1985)
In traditional organization, Organization hart and job description or position guides is a pattern of formal ________ & ____________
relationships & duties
In traditional organization, _________ or departmentalization is an assignment of various activities or tasks to different units or people of the organization
Differentiation
In traditional organization, What is coordination of separate activities or tasks?
integration
In traditional organization, What is power, status, and hierarchal relationships within the organization?
Delegations of authority
In traditional organization, What is guidance of activities and relationships of people in the organization through planned and formalized policies, procedures, and controls?
Administrative systems
In innovative organization, what is the idea that employees, not just managers, are involved in decision making?
empowered decision making
In innovative organization, what is a sense of belonging to the organization is created for all members?
sociability
In innovative organization, what is a shift that has occurred from use of only downward authority to inclusion of upward and lateral lines of authority and input?
new bases of management power