Management Functions and Principles: Planning, Organizing, and Operational Efficiency

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What are the five primary functions of management?
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Which management function includes policies, procedures, mission, vision, values, and strategic planning?
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What is the typical timeline for short-range planning in management?
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What is the typical timeline for long-range planning in management?
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What process involves developing and maintaining a strategic fit between the organization's goals and its changing marketing opportunities?
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Which management function is based on the relationship of positions, functions, and lines of authority?
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What is a job that is directly involved in providing goods or services to customers called?
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What is a job that provides support for line positions, such as IT, called?
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What is the line of authority that moves from the top of a hierarchy to the lowest level called?
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What is the management principle that workers should report to just one boss?
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What term describes the number of subordinates who report directly to a manager?
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What concept involves reduced motions and time required, using the shortest and straightest routes to move materials?
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What is the method of observing random samples to determine the percentage of time working or idle?
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What is the path of a worker during a process called?
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What is the study of equipment placement efficiency and work motions called?
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What type of charts use symbols to analyze the movement of people or material?
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What chart looks at the movement of hands in a work simplification procedure?
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Which management function includes hiring, motivating, and retaining the best people available?
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Which management function involves providing guidance to workers and work projects?
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What is a huge aspect of the directing management function?
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What type of communication flows from higher to lower levels in an organization?
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What type of communication flows from lower to higher levels in an organization?
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What type of communication flows among managers and workers at the same organizational level?
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What type of communication occurs when individuals from different units and organizational levels communicate?
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What type of communication is not defined by the organization's structural hierarchy?
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Which motivational theory is based on the idea that people have needs that must be met in a specific order?
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What are the five steps of Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
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Which model divides motivational forces into satisfiers and dissatisfiers?
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Which motivational theory states that achievement, power, and affiliation are three important needs?
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What are the three 'needs' of McClelland's Motivational Theory?
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Which theory assumes people dislike work, lack ambition, and prefer to be led?
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Which theory assumes people are willing to work, like responsibility, and are self-directed?
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Which management philosophy stresses employee participation in all aspects of company decision making?
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What are the five leadership styles that describe how people express their leadership?
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Which leadership style demands obedience and is useful in time-sensitive situations?
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Which leadership style allows input from others but one person still makes most decisions?
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Which leadership style is characterized by being 'by the book' and following the rules?
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Which leadership style involves everyone in decision making and guides group decisions?
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Which leadership style is characterized by a hands-off approach where the group makes decisions?
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What is the name of the grid that describes management types with axes for production and people?
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In the Blake/Mouton Leadership Grid, what does (1,9) represent?
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In the Blake/Mouton Leadership Grid, what does (1,1) represent?
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In the Blake/Mouton Leadership Grid, what does (5,5) represent?
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In the Blake/Mouton Leadership Grid, what does (9,1) represent?
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In the Blake/Mouton Leadership Grid, what does (9,9) represent?
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Which leadership theory splits styles into job-centered and employee-centered?
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Are benevolent autocratic and exploitative autocratic styles job-centered or employee-centered?
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Are consultative and participative styles job-centered or employee-centered?
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Which management theory studies the way work is organized to increase productivity?
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What principle involves a clearly defined line of authority in an organization?
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What is the mnemonic for components of classical management theory?
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What approach provides a framework for visualizing internal and external environmental factors?
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In systems theory, what includes HR, labor, skills, materials, money, time, utilities, and information?
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In systems theory, what involves linking, decision making, and communication?
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In systems theory, what is the component that includes quantity/quality of goals and satisfaction?
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What term in systems theory refers to an organization based on interdependence of parts?
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What aspect of an open system allows one output to be achieved by more than one input?
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What analytical tool assesses management style based on the amount of authority delegated?
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Which leadership style approach divides styles into 'highly favorable/unfavorable' and 'moderately favorable'?
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Which theory suggests a manager should consider an employee's maturity before deciding on leadership style?
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According to the Hersey-Blanchard model, what is the order of leadership behaviors as a group's readiness increases?
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According to the Hersey-Blanchard model, what type of manager is needed for a low readiness employee?
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According to the Hersey-Blanchard model, what type of manager is needed for a low to moderate readiness employee?
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According to the Hersey-Blanchard model, what type of manager is needed for a moderate to high readiness employee?
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According to the Hersey-Blanchard model, what type of manager is needed for a high readiness employee?
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What are the key characteristics of the Scientific Management Model?
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Which management function involves monitoring performance and taking corrective action as needed?
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What are the four steps of corrective action in management?
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Which management functions should require the greatest allotment of time by a production manager?
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What are the three managerial skill categories that managers should have?
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As an employee ascends management, how do technical and conceptual skills change?
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What are Mintzberg's three managerial roles?
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Which managerial role is characterized by processing information, including monitoring and disseminating?
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Which managerial role is characterized by providing information as a figurehead, leader, or liaison?
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Which managerial role is characterized by using information as a negotiator, entrepreneur, or resource allocator?
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What decision-making technique involves group members writing down ideas and ranking alternatives?
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What decision-making method involves a panel of experts responding to questions until agreement is reached?
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What tool helps identify all potential causes and select the best cause contributing to a problem?
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What technique identifies quality problems based on their degree of importance, including the 80/20 rule?
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What is the mathematical approach to analyzing the cost of waiting lines vs. the cost of preventing line waiting?
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What is the name of the concept that describes different types of managerial power?
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What type of power comes from the ability to provide rewards or favors?
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What power base is dependent on fear of negative results from failing to comply?
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What type of power is due to one's position or job title, like a director?
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What type of power is based on the special knowledge, skills, and expertise a leader possesses?
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What type of power derives from one's personal attraction, personality, or charisma?
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