Exam 2 Flashcards

1
Q

The administration of a funeral service enterprise, the activities of which encompass marketing, office, personnel, and financial management

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Funeral Service Management

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2
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The achievement of economical, orderly, and adequate distribution of products and services

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Marketing Management

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3
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Planning, organizing, actuating, and controlling of office work

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Office Management

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4
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A field of management concerned with the obtaining and maintaining of a satisfactory and satisfied work force

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Personnel Management

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5
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The efficient utilization of adequate regulation of all revenue, expenditures, and capital rights

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Financial Management

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6
Q

The funeral director as a care taking professional involves _____ basic areas

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Three

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7
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What are the 3 basic areas involved in the funeral director as a care taking professional

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With clients, the families he serves
With the community public, the consumer at large
With professional associates, peers, both inter and intra professional

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8
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A distinct process consisting of planning, organizing, actuating, and controlling performed to accomplish established objectives

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Management

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9
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What are the four functions of management?

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Planning
Organizing
Actuating/Directing
Controlling/Evaluating

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10
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The methodology in thinking out acts and/or purposes prior to the actual implementation

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Planning

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11
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How many parking spaces do you need per viewing room?

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25

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12
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Broad statements about what an organization wants to achieve; broad general terms with not set time period

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Goals

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13
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Specific statements of ends, the achievement of which is to be completed in a specific time period

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Objectives

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14
Q

_____ of people die under hospice care

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46%

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15
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To arrange or constitute in interdependent parts, each having a specific function or relation with respect to the whole

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Organizing

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16
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To incite to action, to initiate a process

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Actuating/Directing

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17
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To exercise restraint of or direction over

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Controlling/Evaluating

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18
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To exercise restraint of or direction over

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Controlling/Evaluating

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19
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The primary objective of funeral service management is

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Fulfilling the needs of clients and the community public incurred by death

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20
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The secondary objective of funeral service management is

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Insuring that funds are available for meeting expenses, for providing a reasonable return on investment and for capital improvements

21
Q

The net value of an owner’s financial interest in a business enterprise

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Capital

22
Q

A business firm that obtains income through the buying and selling of goods and services

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Commercial Enterprise

23
Q

Funeral service management deals with what kind of relationship?

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Client-caregiver

24
Q

Funeral service and management and practice support the contemporary management concept of __________

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Caveat Venditor

25
Q

Caveat Venditor means

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Let the seller beware

26
Q

Caveat Emptor means

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Let the buyer beware

27
Q

Funeral service management views the role of its practitioners with its consumers as more

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Personal, advisory, and confidential

28
Q

Due to the nature of funeral service practice, the responsibility of this is greater than that of other managerial persons

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Educating the consumer

29
Q

The responsibility of the funeral service manager often includes serving the ___________

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Total community

30
Q

The art of informing the public of the services or commodities offered for sale by a corporation, partnership, or individual

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Advertising

31
Q

To create consumer demand for an individual class or products and or services - that is the funeral itself or elements thereof

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Selective Demand Advertising

32
Q

To create consumer demand for an individual class or products and or services - that is the funeral itself or elements thereof

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Selective Demand Advertising

33
Q

Motivating people in organizations to develop teamwork that effectively fulfills their needs and achieves organizational objectives

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Human Relations

34
Q

Human relations is important for what?

A

Attaining objectives of the firm

Effective public relations through all funeral service personnel

35
Q

The philosophy of the firm should include what?

A

Code of ethics
NFDA code of professional practice
Philosophy specific to the owner

36
Q

The philosophy of the firm should include what?

A

Code of ethics
NFDA code of professional practice
Philosophy specific to the owner

37
Q

List the priority of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

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Physiological
Security
Belongingness and love
Esteem
Self Actualization
38
Q

What is recommended to be included in the manual for personnel?

A
History of the firm
Tour of the facilities
Personnel Practices
Organization of the firm
Responsibilities of personnel
Professional responsibilities of the new employees
39
Q

The classical theory of motivational behavior is?

A

Money is the most important motivator on the job

40
Q

What are the physiological needs?

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Air, water, food, sex

41
Q

What are the security needs?

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Safety, order, freedon from fear or threat

42
Q

What are the belongingness and love (social) needs?

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Need for love, affection, feelings of belonging and social contact

43
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What are the esteem needs?

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Self respect self esteem, achievement and respect from others

44
Q

What are the self-actualization needs?

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Need to grow, feel fulfilled, to realize one’s potential

45
Q

What are the implications of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?

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Basic needs must be satisfied before incentives designed to provide employees with esteem

46
Q

Who had theory x and y views of human?

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McGregor

47
Q

The average person dislikes work and will avoid it at all possible

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Theory X

48
Q

According to Theory X, because of the dislike of work, how would management get workers to perform efficiently?

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Coersion, controlling, directing, and threatening with punishment

49
Q

According to theory X, the average person lacks _____________

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Ambition