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CLEP Intro To Management
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1. Ambitious and perseverant
Dynamic Environment
bureaucracy
Communication
have initiative
2. Certain factors in the workplace cause job satisfaction & dissatisfaction
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3. Extend authority to the lowest possible levels.
decentralized companies
reengineering
Balance sheet
behavioral school
4. Takes a flexible approach to management that depends on a given situation.
Collectivism
contingency school
Final step in decision-making process
Mary Parker Follett
5. Low-level concern with both people and production
Blake-Mouton managerial grid model
Brown v. Board of Education
Hierarchical authority
managers adhere to company policy
6. Collective bargaining occurs between
Pygmalion effect
Unions and employers
strategic goal
have initiative
7. Invested by employees in a leader whom they admire and wish to emulate
quantitative school
Referent power
Plessy v. Ferguson
Blake-Mouton managerial grid model
8. Establish an evaluation and control system
kaizen approach
Dynamic Environment
Final step in decision-making process
Needs assessment
9. Working toward steady continuous improvement
Smoothing
organizational development theory
Process-oriented changes
kaizen approach
10. Emphasizes personal relationships
informal organization
Motivators
Payback analysis
quantitative school
11. Show an organization's assets at any given point in time
differentiation strategy
Balance sheet
TQM (Total Quality Management)
Personal Development
12. Declared racial segregation unconstitutional
Brown v. Board of Education
Operational goals
Total Quality Management
driver
13. Composed employees number of hierarchical levels
unity of command principle
functional team
Needs assessment
standards
14. Emphasized that organizations establish participation & decision making goals for employees
standards
Process-oriented changes
functional team
Mary Parker Follett
15. Ability of a system to total more than the sum of its parts
functional team
managers adhere to company policy
organizational development
synergy
16. Ascribing one's own ideas or emotions to another
Projection
Ethics
Chester Bernard
Personal Development
17. Coercive and reward powers
unity of command principle
transactional leader
Motivators
centralized organization
18. Guidelines to which employees must adhere to ensure the quality of their work
Plessy v. Ferguson
compensation
Collectivism
standards
19. Plan to make major changes to the processes and culture of an entire organization
Frederick Herzberg's two-factor theory
decentralized companies
Self-directed teams
organizational development
20. Code of organizational conduct that reflects the overall values and principles of a business
organizational chart
Ethics
functional structure
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
21. Individual will act according to what another's expectation of him or her is.
decision tree
Operational goals
Self-directed teams
Pygmalion effect
22. First phase of a company training program generally focuses on
Needs assessment
Final step in decision-making process
job enrichment
organizational development
23. Canada - Mexico - and the United States
NAFTA regional trading
transactional leader
job enrichment
functional team
24. Focuses on the human-based elements of work
Collectivism
behavioral school
Blake-Mouton managerial grid model
Needs assessment
25. Developed the acceptance theory of management
NAFTA regional trading
Chester Bernard
bureaucracy
transactional leader
26. It can defy unity of command.
Cross-functional teams
organizational chart
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
problem with functional authority
27. Operate without managers
Self-directed teams
Cross-functional teams
Needs assessment
Hawthorne effect
28. Broadens the definition of a customer to anyone to whom an employee passes on his product
Operational goals
problem with functional authority
Pygmalion effect
Total Quality Management
29. Comprised of experts from various functions
Payback analysis
Hawthorne effect
Cross-functional teams
Communication
30. Upholded segregation
Frederick Herzberg's two-factor theory
Personal Development
Plessy v. Ferguson
standards
31. Developed by first-level supervisors to schedule work to meet tactical goals; Highly Measurable
Pygmalion effect
Communication
Operational goals
organizational development
32. Idea that subjects of an experiment alter their behavior in response to the fact that they are being studied
Final step in decision-making process
Total Quality Management
Hawthorne effect
Pygmalion effect
33. A force of change directed toward solving a problem.
Hygiene factors
driver
quantitative school
unity of command principle
34. Decisions are more consistent from manager to manager
Referent power
work specialization
managers adhere to company policy
Smoothing
35. Strives to improve performance to deliver high-quality goods or services
customer-focused quality school
functional team
Referent power
Needs assessment
36. Decisions go through a number of channels before resolution can be reached
Projection
unity of command principle
Smoothing
Hierarchical authority
37. Can respond quickly to the latest trends.
TQM (Total Quality Management)
Projection
organic structures
leadership
38. 14 principles of management
Referent power
Program Evaluation and Review Technique
Henri Fayol
informal organization
39. Individual who promotes the development of an innovative product within an organization
Program Evaluation and Review Technique
compensation
product champion
organic structures
40. Emphasizes an institutional or group focus.
Frederick Taylor
Brown v. Board of Education
Operational goals
Collectivism
41. Job enlargement
organizational development
horizontal job loading
work specialization
problem with functional authority
42. Physical support system for the economic activities of a country
infrastructure
Hierarchical authority
classical school of management
product champion
43. Implies a focus on all levels and areas of an organization
managers adhere to company policy
Mary Parker Follett
TQM (Total Quality Management)
quantitative school
44. A demonstration of high quality maintenance
have initiative
ISO 9000 Certification
Blake-Mouton managerial grid model
behavioral school
45. Provides the employee with increased authority and responsibility
driver
Self-directed teams
Frederick Taylor
job enrichment
46. Organization-wide - long-term goal devised by a top-level manager.
functional team
NAFTA regional trading
strategic goal
Hygiene factors
47. Most efficient way of bringing about improvement in quality
reengineering
strategic goal
Referent power
classical school of management
48. Increase productivity and efficiency by reengineering work processes
Process-oriented changes
Blake-Mouton managerial grid model
organizational development theory
horizontal job loading
49. Constant change
Hawthorne effect
Mary Parker Follett
Dynamic Environment
Brown v. Board of Education
50. Includes an employee's salary and benefits
compensation
Mary Parker Follett
centralized organization
contingency school
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