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CLEP Intro To Management
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Playing down differences among parties
Unions and employers
Smoothing
standards
informal organization
2. Working toward steady continuous improvement
compensation
Balance sheet
kaizen approach
synergy
3. Shows a complete picture of several alternative decision paths
Program Evaluation and Review Technique
decision tree
job enrichment
Hawthorne effect
4. Takes a flexible approach to management that depends on a given situation.
NAFTA regional trading
decision tree
Projection
contingency school
5. Developed the acceptance theory of management
Chester Bernard
managerial roles three categories:
job enrichment
contingency school
6. Informational - interpersonal - and decisional
standards
Self-directed teams
managerial roles three categories:
decentralized companies
7. Includes an employee's salary and benefits
Self-directed teams
strategic goal
compensation
Personal Development
8. Concentrates authority in the upper levels.
behavioral school
centralized organization
Pygmalion effect
Hygiene factors
9. Give positive satisfaction
contingency school
Henri Fayol
Motivators
Self-directed teams
10. Show an organization's assets at any given point in time
Balance sheet
Total Quality Management
TQM (Total Quality Management)
Projection
11. Job enlargement
horizontal job loading
Smoothing
Blake-Mouton managerial grid model
Product development
12. Creativity - direction - delegation -control - collaboration
Hierarchical authority
unity of command principle
reengineering
organizational development theory
13. Constant change
Referent power
Plessy v. Ferguson
behavioral school
Dynamic Environment
14. Collective bargaining occurs between
Tactical goals
Communication
Unions and employers
contingency school
15. Physical support system for the economic activities of a country
driver
infrastructure
Self-directed teams
centralized organization
16. Upholded segregation
have initiative
Hygiene factors
NAFTA regional trading
Plessy v. Ferguson
17. A demonstration of high quality maintenance
Collectivism
work specialization
NAFTA regional trading
ISO 9000 Certification
18. Composed employees number of hierarchical levels
organizational development
functional team
Cross-functional teams
Needs assessment
19. 14 principles of management
informal organization
bureaucracy
Henri Fayol
Balance sheet
20. Code of organizational conduct that reflects the overall values and principles of a business
Ethics
Process-oriented changes
managerial roles three categories:
Personal Development
21. Strives to improve performance to deliver high-quality goods or services
Plessy v. Ferguson
customer-focused quality school
Final step in decision-making process
product champion
22. Ensures protection for corporate whistle-blowers
Payback analysis
Projection
functional team
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
23. Extend authority to the lowest possible levels.
Program Evaluation and Review Technique
decentralized companies
Smoothing
strategic goal
24. Division of an organization's tasks into separate jobs.
work specialization
problem with functional authority
decision tree
Dynamic Environment
25. Can respond quickly to the latest trends.
Program Evaluation and Review Technique
organic structures
horizontal job loading
have initiative
26. Example of an intrinsic reward
Plessy v. Ferguson
work specialization
Personal Development
Self-directed teams
27. Certain factors in the workplace cause job satisfaction & dissatisfaction
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28. Increased productivity - Dont deal with other departments much
functional structure
Communication
transactional leader
synergy
29. Specific work goals that middle-level managers derive from the broader strategic goals
Balance sheet
Pygmalion effect
Tactical goals
ISO 9000 Certification
30. It can defy unity of command.
decision tree
problem with functional authority
Ethics
Plessy v. Ferguson
31. Declared racial segregation unconstitutional
job enrichment
product champion
Brown v. Board of Education
Operational goals
32. Ability to garner the respect and cooperation of employees to achieve an organization's goals
driver
kaizen approach
ISO 9000 Certification
leadership
33. Individual will act according to what another's expectation of him or her is.
product champion
Pygmalion effect
organizational development
decision tree
34. Use of quantitative techniques such as statistics and computer simulations to aid in managerial decision-making processes
quantitative school
Chester Bernard
Projection
managers adhere to company policy
35. Most efficient way of bringing about improvement in quality
managerial roles three categories:
behavioral school
reengineering
horizontal job loading
36. Emphasized that organizations establish participation & decision making goals for employees
Mary Parker Follett
have initiative
Personal Development
Balance sheet
37. Average manager spends the majority of his or her time
Program Evaluation and Review Technique
quantitative school
leadership
Communication
38. Identifies the set of dependent tasks that together take the longest time to complete as the critical path.
Chester Bernard
Program Evaluation and Review Technique
Pygmalion effect
TQM (Total Quality Management)
39. Implies a focus on all levels and areas of an organization
unity of command principle
TQM (Total Quality Management)
have initiative
quantitative school
40. Coercive and reward powers
Smoothing
organic structures
TQM (Total Quality Management)
transactional leader
41. A force of change directed toward solving a problem.
driver
Process-oriented changes
Motivators
behavioral school
42. Provides the employee with increased authority and responsibility
leadership
job enrichment
Communication
bureaucracy
43. Developed by first-level supervisors to schedule work to meet tactical goals; Highly Measurable
Chester Bernard
Projection
Motivators
Operational goals
44. Ambitious and perseverant
Self-directed teams
have initiative
reengineering
driver
45. Invested by employees in a leader whom they admire and wish to emulate
centralized organization
Brown v. Board of Education
Referent power
organizational development
46. To always be the first one out with the latest and greatest product.
differentiation strategy
Frederick Taylor
informal organization
Payback analysis
47. Comprised of experts from various functions
ISO 9000 Certification
Cross-functional teams
behavioral school
organic structures
48. Ascribing one's own ideas or emotions to another
classical school of management
managers adhere to company policy
leadership
Projection
49. Emphasizes personal relationships
centralized organization
driver
informal organization
Frederick Taylor
50. Emphasizes an institutional or group focus.
Collectivism
Self-directed teams
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Smoothing