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