Management Functions

Question 1

Shows the manager as a symbol, leader, and as a liaison.

Answer 1

Interpersonal Role

Question 2

Presents the manager as a spokesperson or representative of the organization.

Answer 2

Informational Role

Question 3

Makes him/her an entrepreneur, trouble-shooter, as negotiator, resource allocator.

Answer 3

Decisional Role

Question 4

Proficiency in performing an activity

Answer 4

Technical skills

Question 5

dealing with people

Answer 5

Human relationship skills

Question 6

Ability to see individual matters as they relate to the total picture and to develop creative ways of identifying pertinent factors, responding to the big problems, and discarding irrelevant facts.

Answer 6

Conceptual skills

Question 7

Refer to ideas, concepts, or principles that can be expressed and are accepted because they have logical proofs.

Answer 7

Knowledge factors

Question 8

Skill, art, judgment, and wisdom.

Answer 8

Ability factors

Question 9

Management function, concerned with defining goals for future organizational performance.

Answer 9

Planning

Question 10

They are usually around 3-5 years, long-term in nature and are based on explicit assessments of the competitive strengths and weakness of the organization.

Answer 10

STRATEGIC PLANS

Question 11

The main output of strategic planning.

Answer 11

Set the goals for the organization

Question 12

Pertain to activities in specific departments of an organization.

Answer 12

OPERATIONAL PLANS

Question 13

Outlines the organization’s future role and functions.

Answer 13

ORGANIZATIONAL VISION

Question 14

Outlines the purpose of the agency

Answer 14

ORGANIZATIONAL MISSION

Question 15

Describes the vision of an organization and explains beliefs and gives direction to how the mission or purpose is achieved.

Answer 15

ORGANIZATIONAL PHILOSOPHY

Question 16

Broad statements of intent

Answer 16

Goals

Question 17

Specific behavior or tasks set for the accomplishment of a goal.

Answer 17

Objectives

Question 18

A written plan stating how the organization will function and work together

Answer 18

POLICIES

Question 19

Policies that are never written in any employee manual

Answer 19

Implied policies

Question 20

Published to guide the employees and also to have a basic understanding of the company’s rules

Answer 20

Expressed policies

Question 21

Methods and direction on how the policy will be implemented.

Answer 21

PROCEDURES

Question 22

Plans that specifically define acceptable choices of action.

Answer 22

RULES

Question 23

A planned sequence and combination of activities

Answer 23

PROGRAMS

Question 24

Looking into the future

Answer 24

FORECASTING

Question 25

Show task and schedule information, commonly used in project management.

Answer 25

Gantt chart

Question 26

Nurse’s station at the side and the rooms are arranged

Answer 26

Traditional/Conventional

Question 27

Nurse’s station at the center of the ward

Answer 27

Modern

Question 28

Patients are arranged according to diseases presented. Patients are grouped according to classification of illness.

Answer 28

Progressive Patient Care (PPC)

Question 29

Modification of the modern set-up

Answer 29

Y-shaped