Chapter 7 Flashcards

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The process used to accomplish organization goals through planning, organizing, leading, and controlling people and other organization resources

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Management

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A management function that includes anticipating trends and determining the best strategies and tactics to achieve organization goals and objectives

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Planning

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A management function that includes designing the structure of the organization and creating conditions and systems in which everyone and everything work together to achieve the organization’s goals and objectives

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Organizing

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Creating a vision for the organization and guiding, training, coaching and motivating others to work effectively to achieve the organization’s goals and objectives

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Leading

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A management function that involves establishing clear standards to determine whether or not an organization is progressing toward its goals and objectives, rewarding people for doing a good job, and taking corrective action if they are not

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Controlling

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An encompassing explanation of why the organization exists and where its trying to head

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Vision

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7
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An outline of the fundamental purposes of an organization

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Mission Statement

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The broad, long-term accomplishments an organization wishes to attain

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Goals

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Specific, short-term, statements detailing how to achieve the organizations goals

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Objectives

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A planning tool used to analyze an organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats

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SWOT Analysis

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The process of determining the major goals of the organization and the policies and strategies for obtaining and using resources to achieve those goals

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Strategic Planning

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The process of developing detailed, short-term statements about what is to be done, who is to do it, and how it is to be done

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Tactile Planning

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The process of setting work standards and schedules necessary to implement the company’s tactile objectives

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Operation Planning

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The process of preparing alternative courses of action that may be used if the primary plans don’t achieve the organization’s objectives

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Contingency planning

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15
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Choosing among two or more alternatives

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Decision Making

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The process of solving the everyday problems that occur. Less formal than decision making and usually calls for quicker action

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Problem Solving

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Coming up with as many solutions to a problem as possible in a short period of time with no censoring of ideas

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Brainstorming

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Listing all the Pluses for a solution in one column, all the minuses in another, and the implications in a third column

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A visual device that shows relationships among people and divides the organizations work; it shows who reports to whom

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Organization Chart

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Highest level of management, consisting of the president and other key company executives who develop strategic plans

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Top Management

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The level of management that includes general managers, division managers, and branch and plant managers who are responsible for tactical planning and controlling

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Middle Management

22
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Managers who are directly responsible for supervising workers and evaluating their daily performance

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Supervisory Management

23
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Skills that involve the ability to perform tasks in a specific discipline or department

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Technical Skills

24
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Skills that involve communication and motivation they enable managers to work through and with people

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Human Relations Skills

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Skills that involve the ability to picture the organization as a whole and the relationship among its various parts
Conceptual Skills
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A management function that includes hiring, motivating, and retaining the best people available to accomplish the company's objectives
Staffing
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The presentation of a company's facts and figures in a way that is clear and apparent to all stakeholders
Transparency
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Leadership style that involves making managerial decisions without consulting others
Autocratic Leadership
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Leadership style that consists of managers and employees working together to make decisions
Participative (Democratic) Leadership
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Leadership style that involves managers setting objectives and employees being relatively free to do whatever it takes to accomplish those objectives
Free-Rein Leadership
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Giving workers the education and tools they need to make decisions
Enabling
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Finding the right information, keeping the information readily accessible plea, and making the information known to everyone in the firm
Knowledge Management
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Dealers, who buy products to sell to others, and ultimate customers (or end users) who buy products for their own personal use
External Customers
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Individuals and units within the firm that receive services from other individuals or units
Internal Customers