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Management 101: Management Foundations
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business-skills
Instructions:
Answer 30 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Entrepreneur; Disturbance handler; Resource allocator; and Negotiator
Four decisional roles
Managerial roles
Controlling
Human skills
2. Changing technology (digitalization); Increased emphasis on organizational and managerial ethics; Increased competitiveness; and Changing security threats
First-line managers
Four decisional roles
Planning
Changes facing managers
3. Managerial roles that involve people and other duties that are ceremonial and symbolic in nature
Informational roles
Interpersonal roles
Leading
Management
4. Coordinating and overseeing the work activities of others so that their activities are completed efficiently and effectively
Changes facing managers
Universality of management
Informational roles
Management
5. Planning; Organizing; Leading; and Controlling
Mintzberg's managerial roles
Four functions of management
Planning
Three informational roles
6. Managers at the lowest level of management who manage the work of nonmanagerial employees
Four functions of management
Sustainability
First-line managers
Three informational roles
7. Management function that involves working with and through people to accomplish organizational goals
Effectiveness
Leading
Efficiency
Three importances TO the manager's job
8. Managers at or near the upper levels of the organization structure who are responsible for making organization-wide decisions and establishing the goals and plans that affect the entire organization
Controlling
Organization
Mintzberg's managerial roles
Top managers
9. A deliberate arrangement of people to accomplish some specific purpose
Four decisional roles
Middle managers
First-line managers
Organization
10. Specific actions and behaviors expected of and exhibited by a manager
Effectiveness
Managerial roles
Three importances TO the manager's job
Three informational roles
11. Someone who coordinates and oversees the work of other people so that organizational goals can be accomplished
Universality of management
Manager
Planning
Organizing
12. Top managers; Middle managers; First-line managers; and Nonmanagerial employees
Efficiency
Levels of management
Managerial roles
Decisional roles
13. Management function that involves arranging and structuring work to accomplish the organization's goals
Organizing
Middle managers
Human skills
Decisional roles
14. Figurehead; Leader; and Liaison
Sustainability
Technical skills
Middle managers
Three interpersonal roles
15. Monitor; Disseminator; and Spokesperson
Controlling
Levels of management
Three informational roles
Efficiency
16. Technical skills; Human skills; and Conceptual skills
Three management skills
Top managers
Three informational roles
Universality of management
17. Managerial roles that involve collecting - receiving - and disseminating information
Four functions of management
Informational roles
Levels of management
Three interpersonal roles
18. The ability to work well with other people individually and in a group
Sustainability
First-line managers
Three informational roles
Human skills
19. Managerial roles that revolve around making choices
Decisional roles
Planning
Universality of management
Informational roles
20. The importance of customers; the importance of innovation; and the importance of sustainability
21. The process of monitoring - comparing - and correcting work performance
Controlling
Human skills
Four decisional roles
Sustainability
22. The reality that management is needed in all types and sizes of organizations - at all organizational levels - in all organizational areas - and in organizations no matter where located
Manager
Leading
Three management skills
Universality of management
23. Doing things right - or getting the most output from the least amount of inputs
Levels of management
Three management skills
Managerial roles
Efficiency
24. A company's ability to achieve its business goals and increase long-term shareholder value by integrating economic - environmental - and social opportunities into its business strategies
Decisional roles
Managerial roles
Efficiency
Sustainability
25. Job-specific knowledge and techniques needed to proficiently perform work tasks
Manager
Organizing
Conceptual skills
Technical skills
26. Interpersonal roles; Informational roles; and Decisional roles
27. Doing the right things - or completing activities so that organizational goals are attained
Effectiveness
Informational roles
Controlling
Sustainability
28. Managers between the lowest level and top levels of the organization who manage the work of first-line managers
Middle managers
Decisional roles
Controlling
Management
29. Management function that involves defining goals - establishing strategies for achieving those goals - and developing plans to integrate and coordinate activities
Planning
Controlling
Efficiency
Effectiveness
30. The ability to think and to conceptualize about abstract and complex situations
Three interpersonal roles
Decisional roles
Conceptual skills
Four functions of management