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Question 1

What is Management?

Answer 1

Management is the planning, organizing, and controlling of resources to achieve organizational goals effectively and efficiently.

Question 2

What are resources

Answer 2

assets such as people machinery, raw materials, information, skills and capital

Question 3

Organizational goal?

Answer 3

Is a desired future outcome that an organization strives to achieve

Question 4

What are managers?

Answer 4

Managers are people responsible for supervising the use of an organization’s resources to achieve its goals

Question 5

Tasks of a manager?

Answer 5

1. Planning
2. Organizing
3. Leading
4. Controlling

Question 6

How is an organization described?

Answer 6

A set of people coordinating their activity in pursuit of goals

Question 7

Organizational Performance?

Answer 7

Question 8

Principles of scientific Management to increase work efficiency?

Answer 8

1. Study the way workers perform their tasks
2. Codify the new methods
3. Carefully select workers
4. Establish a fair or acceptable level of performance for a task

Question 9

The congruence Model: Nadler and Tushman

Answer 9

Question 10

Congruence?

Answer 10

The degree to which the needs, demands, goals, objectives, and or structures of one component are consistent with those of the other

The grater the congruence between components the more effective the organization will be