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2331. BIZ 2331 Intro Review. Elements of the Planning function include all of the following except ______________. a. strategic b. organization design c. operational d. tactical. BIZ 2331 Intro Review, p2.
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BIZ 2331 Intro Review • Elements of the Planning function include all of the following except ______________. a. strategic b. organization design c. operational d. tactical
BIZ 2331 Intro Review, p2 2. The Gap has established a goal of increasing its profits by 8 percent next year. Management will monitor profits on a monthly basis. After three months, if profits have not increased by 2 percent, management will take corrective action to get the company on track. Management is carrying out its ________ function. a. planning b. organizing c. leading d. controlling
BIZ 2331 Intro Review, p3 3. Next week Jill Smith will represent her company at a community awards luncheon. Which management role is Jill fulfilling in this situation? a. figurehead b. disseminator c. entrepreneur d. resource-allocator
BIZ 2331 Intro Review, p4 4. Human resource managers are responsible for forecasting future employee needs and recruiting, selecting, evaluating, and compensating employees. Managers such as these are known as ________ managers. a. line b. project c. staff d. generic
BIZ 2331 Intro Review, p5 5. Each Management function is independent and not related. 6. To monitor and evaluate is to control. 7. Supervisors at GM who helped develop the Camaro and Firebird models are examples of product managers. 8. When Jay Bush does commercials for his company he is performing Mintzberg’s liaison role.
BIZ 2331 Intro Review, p6 9. Management is needed in not-for-profit organizations just as in for-profit companies. 10. Reading the Wall Street Journal daily describes Mintzberg’s entrepreneur role. 11. Decisions made about the structure of an organization are generally referred to as organizational designdecisions. 12. The academic fields relevant to management are strategy, entrepreneurship and leadership.
BIZ 2331 Intro Review, p7 13. Social performance demands accountability. 14. Resource sustainability is an economic performance factor. 15. Economic performance is generally at the top organizational pyramid. 16. The OCEAN concept applies to measuring a person’s attitude. 17. Internal locus of control deals with your personal belief of how much you control your own life. 18. Machiavellianism is essential for employee satisfaction and motivation.
BIZ 2331 Intro Review, p8 19. Two key attitudes to influence work behavior are job satisfaction and job commitment. 20. Values are a pattern of behavior and a person’s view of reality. 21. The interactionist perspective deals with finding a proper fit between the person and the organization. 22. Frederick Taylor developed the five functions of management.
BIZ 2331 Intro Review, p9 23. Scientific Management and Management Science are basically the same thing. 24. The fact that you study people affects their performance is known as the Hawthorne Effect. 25. Contingency theory combines universalist concepts with mechanistic environments. 26. Sociotechnical theory focuses on the organization as a whole and the interrelationship of its parts.
BIZ 2331 Intro Review, p10 27. Learning organizations rely on systematic problem solving. 28. A cultural dimension best applied to the United States is Collectivism. • Ethics in any context is difficult because of the absence of absolute standards. 30. Sabanes-Oxley was enacted to attempt to develop codes of behavioral standards to help deter wrongdoing and promote honesty.