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