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CLEP Intro To Management
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. First phase of a company training program generally focuses on
Product development
have initiative
strategic goal
Needs assessment
2. Establish an evaluation and control system
Payback analysis
NAFTA regional trading
quantitative school
Final step in decision-making process
3. Coercive and reward powers
transactional leader
Hygiene factors
Frederick Herzberg's two-factor theory
Chester Bernard
4. A demonstration of high quality maintenance
ISO 9000 Certification
kaizen approach
organizational development theory
Ethics
5. Framework for the hierarchy of an organization
strategic goal
Communication
organizational chart
Mary Parker Follett
6. Collective bargaining occurs between
compensation
Pygmalion effect
Personal Development
Unions and employers
7. Emphasizes personal relationships
synergy
Product development
decision tree
informal organization
8. Give positive satisfaction
Plessy v. Ferguson
infrastructure
Process-oriented changes
Motivators
9. Strives to improve performance to deliver high-quality goods or services
customer-focused quality school
managerial roles three categories:
Hawthorne effect
Pygmalion effect
10. Emphasizes an institutional or group focus.
infrastructure
job enrichment
Collectivism
standards
11. Code of organizational conduct that reflects the overall values and principles of a business
strategic goal
Ethics
driver
Dynamic Environment
12. Operate without managers
Pygmalion effect
Self-directed teams
Referent power
decentralized companies
13. Includes an employee's salary and benefits
compensation
ISO 9000 Certification
differentiation strategy
Plessy v. Ferguson
14. Increased productivity - Dont deal with other departments much
bureaucracy
functional structure
Needs assessment
transactional leader
15. Individual will act according to what another's expectation of him or her is.
Referent power
Pygmalion effect
infrastructure
Final step in decision-making process
16. Most efficient way of bringing about improvement in quality
Plessy v. Ferguson
job enrichment
reengineering
Communication
17. Emphasized that organizations establish participation & decision making goals for employees
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
strategic goal
Mary Parker Follett
functional team
18. Certain factors in the workplace cause job satisfaction & dissatisfaction
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19. Job enlargement
standards
Hawthorne effect
product champion
horizontal job loading
20. Increase productivity and efficiency by reengineering work processes
Process-oriented changes
Hygiene factors
organic structures
classical school of management
21. Low-level concern with both people and production
Blake-Mouton managerial grid model
have initiative
product champion
organizational chart
22. Concentrates authority in the upper levels.
differentiation strategy
strategic goal
centralized organization
decision tree
23. Determines which alternative will pay back an initial investment most quickly
Payback analysis
Communication
Tactical goals
quantitative school
24. To always be the first one out with the latest and greatest product.
differentiation strategy
synergy
Chester Bernard
horizontal job loading
25. Individual who promotes the development of an innovative product within an organization
Personal Development
product champion
managers adhere to company policy
leadership
26. Focuses on the human-based elements of work
Referent power
Frederick Herzberg's two-factor theory
informal organization
behavioral school
27. Structure with a number of channels
Referent power
bureaucracy
Frederick Taylor
contingency school
28. Specific work goals that middle-level managers derive from the broader strategic goals
Hawthorne effect
have initiative
Product development
Tactical goals
29. Developed by first-level supervisors to schedule work to meet tactical goals; Highly Measurable
organizational chart
horizontal job loading
leadership
Operational goals
30. Guidelines to which employees must adhere to ensure the quality of their work
synergy
standards
quantitative school
Program Evaluation and Review Technique
31. Do not give positive satisfaction - though dissatisfaction results from their absence
Smoothing
transactional leader
Hygiene factors
Tactical goals
32. Broadens the definition of a customer to anyone to whom an employee passes on his product
kaizen approach
Brown v. Board of Education
Final step in decision-making process
Total Quality Management
33. Ability to garner the respect and cooperation of employees to achieve an organization's goals
leadership
Personal Development
unity of command principle
behavioral school
34. Creativity - direction - delegation -control - collaboration
organizational development theory
Process-oriented changes
unity of command principle
functional team
35. Use of quantitative techniques such as statistics and computer simulations to aid in managerial decision-making processes
Operational goals
quantitative school
infrastructure
horizontal job loading
36. Ability of a system to total more than the sum of its parts
synergy
product champion
organizational development
decentralized companies
37. Provides the employee with increased authority and responsibility
kaizen approach
Hierarchical authority
job enrichment
classical school of management
38. Average manager spends the majority of his or her time
Communication
Frederick Taylor
Mary Parker Follett
NAFTA regional trading
39. States that each employee must be accountable to one and only one supervisor.
infrastructure
decentralized companies
unity of command principle
Brown v. Board of Education
40. Composed employees number of hierarchical levels
functional team
Communication
Payback analysis
driver
41. Upholded segregation
ISO 9000 Certification
Plessy v. Ferguson
Frederick Taylor
Tactical goals
42. A force of change directed toward solving a problem.
Self-directed teams
leadership
driver
Henri Fayol
43. 14 principles of management
horizontal job loading
Henri Fayol
Referent power
TQM (Total Quality Management)
44. Ensures protection for corporate whistle-blowers
bureaucracy
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Program Evaluation and Review Technique
customer-focused quality school
45. Constant change
Product development
Hierarchical authority
Dynamic Environment
Self-directed teams
46. Ascribing one's own ideas or emotions to another
customer-focused quality school
Projection
standards
have initiative
47. Canada - Mexico - and the United States
Total Quality Management
Self-directed teams
NAFTA regional trading
managers adhere to company policy
48. Plan to make major changes to the processes and culture of an entire organization
organizational development
Motivators
horizontal job loading
Final step in decision-making process
49. Decisions are more consistent from manager to manager
Mary Parker Follett
managers adhere to company policy
organic structures
Frederick Taylor
50. Physical support system for the economic activities of a country
Program Evaluation and Review Technique
organizational development theory
infrastructure
Blake-Mouton managerial grid model