Exam 1 - Study Guide Flashcards

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Definition of a Manager

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-o Responsible for achieving organizational objectives through efficient and effective utilization of resources
▪ Organizational performance matter

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Manager Resources

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  • Human, financial, physical, informational
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Human Resources

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-people; the organization’s most valuable asset

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Financial Resources

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-money; everything needs money

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Physical Resources

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-making the products and services; keeping the systems working

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Informational Resources

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-how you are going to make decisions

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Efficient

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  • working in a well-organized and competent way
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Effective

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  • successful in producing a desired or intended result
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Management Functions

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  • Planning, organizing, leading, controlling
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Planning

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  • setting objectives and determining in advance exactly how the objectives will be met
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Organizing

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-delegating and coordinating tasks and allocating resources to achieve objectives

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Leading

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-influencing employees to work toward achieving objectives

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Contolling

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  • establishing and implementing mechanisms to ensure that objectives are achieved
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Levels of Managers

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  • Top, middle, first-line
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Top Managers

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-CEO, president, vice-president

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Middle Managers

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-sales manager, branch manager, department head

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First-Line Managers

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-crew leader, supervisor, head nurse, office manager

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Situational Management Analysis

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  • Capability

- Management Styles

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Ability

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  • knowledge, experience, education, skills, and training to do a job without direction
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Motivation

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  • do they have the confidence and drive to do the task
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Management Styles

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  • Autocratic, consultative, participative, empowering
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Autocratic

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-low ability, high direction and low support
● Employees are unable to perform the task without supervision or lack motivation
● Closely oversee employee performance
● Make decisions without employee input

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Consultative

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-moderate low ability, high direction and high support
● Employees have moderate ability and are motivated to do the task without supervision
● Manager allows employees to do that task but still oversees
● Manager gets input from the employee

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Participative

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-high high ability, low direction, high support
● Employees can do the task but need motivation
● Develops confidence
● Group meeting for input

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Empowering
-outstanding high ability, low direction, low support ● Can preform the task without direction or support ● Others can make the decision for the group
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Definition of a Theory
-o Theory: ideas and/or systems that explain, predict, and control ▪ Builds on what comes before
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Classical Theory
- Communication Style | - Frederick Taylor
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Communication Style of Classical Theory
-▪ Focus on the job and management functions to determine the best way to manage in all organizations ▪ Job efficiency through the development of technical skills
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Fredrick Taylor: Scientific Management
-▪ The father of scientific management ▪ Scientific management principles ● 1. Develop a procedure for each element of a worker’s job ● 2. Promote job specialization ● 3. Select, train, and develop workers scientifically ● 4. Plan and schedule work ● 5. Establish standard methods and times for each task ● 6. Use wage incentives such as piece rates and bonuses
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Administrative Theory
- Henri Fayol | - Max Weber
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Henri Fayol: 5 Functions of Management
-▪ The father of modern management | ▪ Five major functions of management: planning, coordinating, organizing, controlling, and commanding
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Max Weber: Bureaucracy
-▪ Goal was to develop a set of rules and procedures to ensure that all employees were treated fairly
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Behavioral Theory
- Elton Mayo | - Douglas McGregor
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Elton Mayo: Human Relations Movement and the Hawthorne Effect
-▪ Wanted to get the best work environment possible ▪ A way that a manager treated his employees had a lot to do with their performance ▪ Hawthorne Effect: the theory that just studying people effects their performance
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Douglas McGregor: Theory X / Theory Y
- Theory X: people do not like their work; managers must direct and control as much as possible - Theory Y: people like to work and do not need as much supervision
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Integrative Perspective
- Systems Theory | - Contingency Theory
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Systems Theory
- ▪ Focus on viewing the organization as a whole and as the interrelationship of its parts
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Contingency Theory
-▪ Focus on determining the best management approach for a given situation
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Internal Environment
- Includes the factors that affects its performance within its boundaries
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Mission
- Its purpose or reason for being
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Structure
- The way in which an organization groups its resources to accomplish a mission
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Management and Culture
- Definition of Organizational Culture | - Schein: Three Levels of Culture
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Definition of Organizational Culture
-● Values, beliefs, actions, stories, artifacts, and assumptions about appropriate behavior that members of an organization share
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Schein: Three Levels of Culture
- ● Artifacts/Behaviors: physical and social environment ● Values: operating principles that guide decisions ● Assumptions: deeply ingrained beliefs that are considered
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Strong vs. Weak Cultures
-● How organizational cultural strength is characterized ● Strong: shared assumptions, know values and beliefs, behave as expected ● Weak: not shares assumptions, do not know values and beliefs, do not behave as expected
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Business Ethics
- Standards of right and wrong that influence behavior
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Factors Influencing Ability to Make Ethical Decisions
- Personality - Moral Development - Situation - Faith
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Personality
- Deals with integrity
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Moral Development
- distinguishing right from wrong and determining the right choice
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Situation
- Easier to be unethical in certain situations
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Faith
- As Christians, make the right decisions
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Organizational Code of Conduct and Whistleblowing
- ▪ Works with mission statement and includes specific policies ▪ Needs to be enforced from the top down ▪ Often includes whistleblower programs - Exposing content that could be considered illegal
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Ethical Decision-Making Models
- Four-way Test - "Glad you asked" - Stakeholder Approach to Ethics - Three Step Checklist
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- Four Way Test
-● Is it the truth? ● Is it fair to all concerned? ● Will it build goodwill and better friendships? ● Will it be beneficial to all concerned?
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- "Glad You Asked"
- Filter for sound business decisions
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Stakeholder Approach to Ethics
-● Win-win situation for all stakeholders so everyone benefits from the decision
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Three Step Checklist: Collect Relevant Information Regarding an Action
-● Does the action violate any laws? ● Does the action violate company or professional standards? ● Who is affected, and how, by the action?
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Justifications of Unethical Behavior
``` - ▪ Displacement of responsibility ▪ Diffusion of responsibility ▪ Advantageous comparison ▪ Disregard or distortion of consequences ▪ Attribution of blame ```
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Global Environment
- Global Attributes - Global Classifications - Global Approaches to Business
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Three Global Attitudes
- Ethnocentrism - Polycentric - Geocentric
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Ethnocentrism
-my way is right; apply my way everywhere
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Polycentric
- we play the house rules; just fit in
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Geocentric
-what’s the best way in this world of diversity?
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Global Classifications
- International - Multinational - Transnational
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International
- doing business abroad ● Import/export ● Strategic alliance ● Licensing
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Multinational
-significant operations in more than one country ● Joint-ventures ● Direct investments
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Transnational
- global integration; organize by industry or market, no geography or region ● Mixed-methods
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Global Approaches to Business
- Import - Export - Licensing - Franchising - Contracting - Strategic Alliances - Joint Ventures
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Import
- Buying goods from a foreign place and bringing them home
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Export
- Giving goods to a foreign place
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Licensing and Franchising
- Licensing: makes products or services in exchange for a royalty - Franchising: licences the entire business to the franchisee for a fee and royalties
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Contracting
- A foreign product that a company sells as its own
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Strategic Alliances and Joint Ventures
- Strategic Alliance - an agreement to share resources that do not necessarily involve creating a new company - Joint Venture - Created when two or more firms share ownership of a new company
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Differentiate joint venture from strategic alliance
- Strategic alliances do not always create a new company | - Joint ventures create a new company
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Five Accents or Themes in Faith and Work
1. Personal Purpose or Calling in Work 2. Stewardship or "Co-Regency" 3. Radical Generosity 4. Evangelism 5. Economic Justice and Business Ethics
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How did God design work?
- God designed work to be good | - It is a way that we can be productive in our lives and serve others
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Impact of meaningful work
- Improves life, the world around us, and the lives of others
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What are the limits of work according to God's Word
- We all get tired after doing work | - Therefore, some rest is necessary
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"Work as a necessary evil": where does this idea come from?
- The thought that we just have to do work because its what we need to do to survive - Modern thought
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Why does work have dignity?
- It reflects God's image in us
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How are we called to fill and subdue the earth through our work?
- This is the first job that God gave man
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What does "culture making" look like?"
- Rearranging what God has given us in a way that helps others and gives God glory
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Definition of "calling"
- God has assigned each of us with a task to do and we should preform it to the best of our abilities
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Martin Luther's perspective on "vocation"
- Knew that everyone was called to do something | - Knew that no one would know what it was without something else: help from God
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How should we view work?
- Act of love - Ministry of competence - Service
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Ministry of Competence
- The best way to serve God is to do your job to the best of your ability