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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. Doing the right things - or completing activities so that organizational goals are attained
Controlling
Effectiveness
Universality of management
Efficiency
2. Managerial roles that involve collecting - receiving - and disseminating information
Three interpersonal roles
Controlling
Informational roles
Human skills
3. Managerial roles that involve people and other duties that are ceremonial and symbolic in nature
Interpersonal roles
Four decisional roles
Middle managers
Leading
4. Specific actions and behaviors expected of and exhibited by a manager
Controlling
Three importances TO the manager's job
Three management skills
Managerial roles
5. Figurehead; Leader; and Liaison
Levels of management
Three interpersonal roles
Effectiveness
Universality of management
6. Managerial roles that revolve around making choices
Decisional roles
Mintzberg's managerial roles
Organizing
Three informational roles
7. Management function that involves working with and through people to accomplish organizational goals
Leading
Management
Conceptual skills
Managerial roles
8. 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
Planning
Sustainability
Three management skills
Conceptual skills
9. The ability to think and to conceptualize about abstract and complex situations
Changes facing managers
Conceptual skills
Four functions of management
Levels of management
10. Technical skills; Human skills; and Conceptual skills
First-line managers
Three informational roles
Three interpersonal roles
Three management skills
11. 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
Top managers
Mintzberg's managerial roles
Planning
Changes facing managers
12. The ability to work well with other people individually and in a group
Human skills
Decisional roles
Changes facing managers
Top managers
13. The importance of customers; the importance of innovation; and the importance of sustainability
14. Coordinating and overseeing the work activities of others so that their activities are completed efficiently and effectively
Interpersonal roles
Management
Manager
Universality of management
15. Doing things right - or getting the most output from the least amount of inputs
Middle managers
Efficiency
First-line managers
Planning
16. Managers between the lowest level and top levels of the organization who manage the work of first-line managers
First-line managers
Sustainability
Four decisional roles
Middle managers
17. Planning; Organizing; Leading; and Controlling
Four functions of management
Changes facing managers
Organizing
Decisional roles
18. Top managers; Middle managers; First-line managers; and Nonmanagerial employees
Sustainability
Levels of management
Three importances TO the manager's job
Efficiency
19. The process of monitoring - comparing - and correcting work performance
Four decisional roles
Controlling
Three management skills
Organization
20. Someone who coordinates and oversees the work of other people so that organizational goals can be accomplished
Manager
Human skills
Mintzberg's managerial roles
First-line managers
21. A deliberate arrangement of people to accomplish some specific purpose
Three management skills
First-line managers
Effectiveness
Organization
22. Monitor; Disseminator; and Spokesperson
Conceptual skills
Three management skills
Efficiency
Three informational roles
23. Entrepreneur; Disturbance handler; Resource allocator; and Negotiator
Decisional roles
Four decisional roles
Four functions of management
Middle managers
24. Managers at the lowest level of management who manage the work of nonmanagerial employees
Organization
First-line managers
Manager
Management
25. Management function that involves defining goals - establishing strategies for achieving those goals - and developing plans to integrate and coordinate activities
Organizing
Planning
Four decisional roles
Universality of management
26. 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
Universality of management
First-line managers
Conceptual skills
Middle managers
27. Interpersonal roles; Informational roles; and Decisional roles
28. Management function that involves arranging and structuring work to accomplish the organization's goals
First-line managers
Changes facing managers
Manager
Organizing
29. Changing technology (digitalization); Increased emphasis on organizational and managerial ethics; Increased competitiveness; and Changing security threats
Changes facing managers
Managerial roles
Three importances TO the manager's job
Organizing
30. Job-specific knowledge and techniques needed to proficiently perform work tasks
Controlling
Three interpersonal roles
Planning
Technical skills