midterm

Question 1

The formal rights of a manager to manage
Vested in the organizational position, not the person.
Provides the manager with positional power
Authority is accepted by the subordinates
Authority flow from the top, down.

Answer 1

Authority

Question 2

A plan or action based on skill in managing or planning.

General program of action implying commitment of emphasis and resources to attain broad objectives.

Answer 2

Strategies/Methods/Techniques

Question 3

Pertaining to a goal or end
Planning, organizing, Directing, Staffing, Controlling are aimed.
Without bias or prejudice

Answer 3

Objectives

Question 4

The duty to perform the task the employee has been assigned.

Answer 4

responsibility

Question 5

Benefits of Planning

Answer 5

Managers can set goals or objectives ahead of time
The enterprise or organization can prepare for anticipated impediments.
Employees are provided with guidelines in directing them.

Question 6

Indicators of Poor Planning

Answer 6

Delayed submission of results
Idle machines
Insufficient materials
Inappropriate machines/equipments
Undistributed workload
Skilled staff doing unskilled work
Staffs performing tests outside their area of responsibility
Quarreling bickering and/or confusions among staff

Question 7

Factors affecting Laboratory Planning

Answer 7

Past Experience
Market Potential
Competition
Hospital and Laboratory Relations
Regulatory and Accrediting Agency
Medical Trends
Socio-political Trends

Question 8

A comprehensive managerial system that integrates many key managerial activities in a systematic manner.

Answer 8

Management By Objectives (MBO)

Question 9

These two are delegated together and make the employee accountable to superiors

Answer 9

Responsibility and Authority

Question 10

Importance of Planning

Answer 10

Enables managers to determine goals of organization and develop over all strategies
Provides direction
Allows manager the opportunity to adjust the org to environment
Provides a standard for making process

Question 11

Types of Plans

Answer 11

1. Purposes or mission/aim
2. Objectives
3. Strategies/Methods/Techniques
4. Policies
5. Procedures
6. Rules
7. Programs
8. Budget

Question 12

Something one intends to get or do

An idea or ideal kept before the mind as an end of effort or action

Answer 12

Purposes or mission/aim

Question 13

Indicators of Good Planning

Answer 13

On-time delivery of results/reports
Machines are in good condition
Materials are available
Machines’ specifications are utilized maximally
Distributed workload
Efficient utilization of staff’s ability/skills
Required trainings are being acquired
Harmonious relation among staffs among departments

Question 14

Line departments perform the organization’s primary tasks.
Production, marketing, sales, R&D
Staff Departments provide specialized skills in support of line departments.
Engineering, Human Resources, Legal,
Advise and council in areas of expertise

Answer 14

Line and Staff Organizations

Question 15

Required actions chosen from among alternatives

An authoritative regulation for action, conduct, method, procedures and arrangement

Answer 15

Rules

Question 16

Implies an action and deals with method of achieving goals
Requires an operational or technical skills
Logical responsibility of the supervisor staff

Answer 16

Tactical Planning

Question 17

Plans that establish a required method of handling future activities.
Act or method or manner of proceeding in some process or source of action.

Answer 17

Procedures

Question 18

Also called division of Labor
Specialists get good at a specific task
Efficiency increases
Employees are selected based on specific skills
Training is geared toward increased efficiency.
Based on a mechanistic organization

Answer 18

Work Specialization

Question 19

Statements or understanding which guide for decision making

Any plan or acts based on such principles

Answer 19

Policies

Question 20

The process of deploying resources to achieve strategic goals

Answer 20

Organizing

Question 21

Most basic of all managerial functions
Involves selecting missions and objectives and the actions to achieve it
Intellectually a demanding process

Answer 21

planning

Question 22

Determining company’s long term goals and idenfying best approach
Top management does, with great importance

Answer 22

Strategic planning

Question 23

Steps in Planning

Answer 23

Being of Opportunity
Objectives or Goals
Consider Planning Premises
Identify Alternatives
Evaluate Alternatives
Choose an Alternative
Formulate Supporting Plans
Budget Considerations

Question 24

Plan or procedure for dealing with some matter
Complex of goals, policies and procedures, task assignment etc.
Supported by necessary capitals and operating budgets.

Answer 24

Programs

Question 25

What is organizing in terms of process, and structure

Answer 25

Process
a course of action, a route, a progression
Structure
an arrangement, a configuration, a construction

Question 26

Benefits of MBO Weakness of MBO

Answer 26

Improvement of managing
Clarification of organization
Encouragement of personal commitment
Development of effective controls

Failure to teach the philosophy
Failure to give guidelines to goal setters
Difficulty in setting goals
Emphasis on short run goals

Question 27

An unbroken line of authority
Unity of Command-Everyone has only one supervisor
Scalar Principle-Everyone has at least one boss. Everyone is included

Answer 27

Chain of Command

Question 28

Refers to the objectives, programs, policies and procedures that are formulated in order to achieve the goals of an organization.

Answer 28

plan

Question 29

Statement of expected results expressed in numerical terms

Plan for adjusting expenditures to income

Answer 29

Budget