Practice Quiz (Midterms) Flashcards
At the level of the organization involves deciding how best to departmentalize, or cluster, jobs into departments to coordinate effort effectively.
Organizing
Managers must constantly evaluate the success of their plans and take corrective action when necessary.
Planning
Involves the design of individual jobs within the organization.
Organizing
Is an operation of recruiting the employees by evaluating their skills, knowledge and then offering them specific job roles accordingly.
Staffing
Managers must make decisions about the best courses of action for achieving objectives.
Planning
The process begins with environmental scanning which simply means that managers must be aware of the critical contingencies facing their organization in terms of economic conditions, their competitors, and their customers.
Planning
Managers must establish objectives, which are statements of what needs to be achieved and when.
Planning
Involves developing an organizational structure and allocating human resources to ensure the accomplishment of objectives.
Organizing
Can broadly view as people-centered function and therefore it is relevant for all types of organization. It is concerned with categories of personnel from top to bottom of the organization.
Staffing
Managers must attempt to forecast future conditions. These forecasts form the basis for this management function.
Planning
Structure is usually represented by an ___, which provides a graphic representation of the chain of command within an organization.
organization chart
___ of employees as to how efficiently the subordinate is performing a job and also to know his aptitudes and other qualities necessary for performing the job assigned to him.
Appraisal
This process implies the up-gradation of an employee to a higher post involving increasing rank, prestige and responsibilities. Generally, it is linked to increment in wages and incentives but it is not essential that it always relates to that part of an organization.
Promotion
Is the way managers conduct the managerial functions of planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling. It is the heart of all organizations and the linking process of management.
Communication
Otherwise know as intermediate (one to three years) planning that is designed to develop relatively concrete and specific means to implement the strategic plan. Middle-level managers often engage in this.
Tactical planning
