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Frage | Antworten |
Managerial functions | POLC Planning Organising Leading Controlling |
Planning | Selecting goals and ways to attain them |
Organising | Resource allocation Assigning responsibility for task accomplishment |
Leading | Influencing and motivating people |
Controlling | Measuring achievement against plans |
Satisficing | Choice that will satisfy the minimum requirements necessary to achieve a goal (NOT a rational decision maker) |
Feedback | Monitoring activities and making corrections |
Advantages of plans | Guide for resource allocation Sets a standard of performance Commitment |
Disadvantage of plans | False sense of certainty Rigidity in turbulent environment Can inhibit creativity and innovation |
SMART goals | Specific Measurable Achievable Realistic Time bound |
Types of goals | Strategic (upper management - long term) Tactical (middle management - medium term) Operational (staff - short term) |
Political Model | You have to lobby Coalitions occur |
Decision making process | Recognise a decision needs to be made Diagnose and analyse the cause Develop Alternatives Select based on criteria Implement Evaluate and feedback |
Group decision making Advantages & disadvantages | Advantages Diversity: experience, professions Learning ground for decision making Disadvantages Groupthink Dominating leaders Logrolling (exchanging favors) |
Groupthink | A group values harmony over analysis and critical evaluation. Individuals follow the word of the leader discouraging healthy conflict. |
Anchoring | Basing the budget on last year Instead of thinking what is needed this year |
Confirmation bias | Interpret evidence as confirmation of one's beliefs |
4 varying things everyone has | Authority Accountability Responsibility Delegation |
Centralised Authority | Boss makes decisions Policies, roles (Old, tall structure) |
Decentralised authority | Decision making is spread Everyone is responsible (New, wide structure) |
Line functions | Essential to the business e.g. manufacturing division in Sistema |
Staff functions | Support roles e.g. HR, Accounting |
Functional Structure | Grouped by activity e.g. accounting, marketing |
Divisional structure | Mixed disciplines grouped by a common trait e.g. product (John Deer), North Island / South Island |
Matrix structure | Combines Functional and Divisional Multiple bosses More accountability and communication But can have conflicting orders |
Team based structure | Teams in a lateral structure Team self manages with mixed roles Flexible but can exhibit team bias and bad communication |
Virtual Network | Never have a face to face meeting Communicate via technology Out source to other companies |
Project Based Organisation | Similar to Team based but everyone works on a project e.g. a construction site |
Examples of reasons for Satisficing | Expensive to search Personal bias Time pressure |
Organisational control | Process: activities consistent with the plan? |
Perspectives of control | Feed forward Concurrent Feedback |
Feed forward control | Anticipates and prevents problems Looks at inputs e.g. pre-employment drug test, inspecting raw materials |
Concurrent control | Solves problems as they happen An ongoing process Adaptive, employee self-control |
Feedback control | Solves problems after they occur Looks at outputs e.g. final product inspection, customer survey |
Closed loop | Automatic control Needs a feedback system e.g. thermostat for heating |
Open loop | External monitoring and input People involved |
An effective control system | Linked to strategy Accepted by staff Balances objectives and subjective data Provides timely feedback Enables management to take corrective action |
Controls (e.g. financial / manufacturing) | Sales Revenue Profit Production rates Defects Staff performance |
DIFOT EBIT | Delivered in full on time Earnings Before Interest & Tax |
How to measure Innovation | New ideas per month Conversion rate - Ideas to products |
Staff Performance | Absenteeism Staff turnover |
Balance Sheet | Shows the firms financial position (Assets, Liabilities etc.) |
Income Statement | Shows sales, costs of sales, profit / loss |
A = L + E | Assets = Liability + Owners Equity |
Ratio Analysis | Liquidity ratio - (cash on hand) Leverage ratio - (debt to equity) Activity ratio - (stock turnover) Profitability ratio - (gross profit) |
Budgetary Control | Op Ex (budget for day to day operations) Cap Ex (budget for capital expenditures) |
Physical Asset Control | Land, buildings, machinery and information systems should be safe and maintained |
Control of People | Set objectives Track achievement Review Feedback on performance Plan for the future |
Total Quality Management | Decentralised quality control where everyone self manages e.g. Mitutoyo |
Quality | Totality of the products ability to satisfy customers needs |
Six Sigma | 3.4 defects per million |
ISO 9000 | Standards set by the International Standards Organisation |
Benchmarking | Comparing yourself to your competitors |
Balanced Scorecard | Financial Internal processes Innovation Customers Targets, Measures, Outcomes, Initiative |
Leadership vs Management | "Doing the right thing" vs "Doing things right" |
Position power | Legitimate power Reward power Coercive power |
Personal power | Referent power - (charisma) Expert power - (knowledge) |
Functions of a Manager | Focus on the organisation Stability Assign tasks |
Functions of a Leader | Change Purpose Nurtures Innovates Personal power |
Effective leadership | Know your strengths Know your situation Assess followers |
Evolution of Leadership theory | Trait theory Behavioral theory Situational theory Transformation theory |
Behavioral Approach | People vs Task orientated Impoverished Authority compliant Middle management Country club Team management |
Relationship & Guidance | Telling - (hi G, low R) Delegating - (low G, low R) Participating - (low G, hi R) Selling - (hi G, hi R) |
Charismatic Leadership | Inspire and motivate Appeals emotionally Be part of something big |
Transformational leadership | Innovation Followers needs Change |
Authentic leadership | Great deal of trust Good values Self-discipline |
Transactional leadership | Clarify tasks Structure POLC |
Servant leadership | Transcend self-interest for the good of the organisation Develop workers |
Traits of Technical Employees | Highly motivated High need for achievement High need for autonomy Strong professional identity Focus on building expertise |
Leadership | Coach for peak performance Delegating/participating style Professional development Facilitate self-management |
Group | People working together for a common task |
Group characteristics | Single designated leader Individuals accountable Individual work Measured by financial effectiveness |
Team | People working together for a common task AND Interacting and coordinating |
Team characteristics | Shared leadership Accountable to the team Meetings - open minded Measured by collective product |
Why are Teams good? | Creative Quality Speed Productivity Employee satisfaction = Competitive advantage |
Formal Team | Structured e.g. HR |
Cross-function Team | Mixed disciplines e.g. project team |
Self managed Team | Diverse skills Team discussions Access to resources |
Effective Team | Trust Healthy conflict Commitment Accountability Results orientated |
Dysfunctional Team | Lack of trust Fear of conflict Lack of commitment Avoidance of accountability Inattention to results (personal ambition) |
Successful Team | ~ 5 members Clarity of role and goal of the team Diversity (profession, age, no group-think and helps mentoring and reflect customer base) |
Task roles | Ideas Summarising Opinion Seeking info |
Social roles | Encouragement Harmonising Following Reduce tension |
Belkin's Team roles | Plant, Resource Investigator Coordinator, Shaper Monitor Evaluator, Team worker Implementer, Completer Finisher Specialist |
Stages of Team development | Forming - (Orientation - getting to know other team members) Storming - (Conflict) Norming - (Order) Performing - (Cooperating - engage in joint problem solving and decision-making) Adjourning - (Task completion) |
Main reason it is hard to maintain competitive advantage | Hyper-competition |
In SWOT analysis, opportunities and threats refer to: internal / external? | The external enviroment |
In the resource based model of competitive advantage, a capability is best defined as: | Bundling advanced technology with specialist human resources |
Strategic management Stakeholder | People who are affected by an organisations performance and claims on it's performance (shareholders, suppliers, employess, customers) |
Four criteria for Sustained Competitive Advantage | Valuable Costly o imitate Non-substitutable Rare |
Porters five forces Industry attractive when | Few threats of substitutes Suppliers hold little power Moderate level of rivalry among competitors |
Example of radical innovation | Iphone |
Kondratievs long wave cycles of innovation , fifth long wave | Computers telecommunication, biotech |
Which element of the marketing mix is addressed only by the decision to not have bricks and mortar | Distribution |
4 P's of marketing | Price Promotion Place Product |
A person who camps out at an Apple store would fit where in the Diffusion of innovations? Early majority, Late majority, Early adopter or Laggard? | Early adopter |
Which is not a benefit of using social media for marketing? Compare product with others Extend lifecyle Boost word of mouth Cheaper than traditional | Automatically extends the lifecycle of a product or service |
OSH addresses | All working enviroments |
The individual level of OSH refers to: | Health and safety knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of employees |
The interpersonal level | Policies and procedures |
NZ has higher rate of work-related fatalities Australia | True |
A reason to accurately quantify the costs of work related injury | Total costs need to include both the direct and indirect costs The impacts of many potential risks could takes years to become evident Reported injuries are often conservative and unreliable. |
Which of the following is not a PCBU accHSWA,2015 | Self employed ***** Home owners Local council Sub-contractors |
Under HSWA,2015 When are business required to appoint anOSH rep | A business with more than 20 employees if requested by more than 5 employees |
Project | Cross functional Multiple stakeholders One time effort Constraints: time, money, resources Established objective |
Benefits of Project Management | Framework Consistency Environment Risk Assessment Development |
2 types of skills for Project Management EXAM | Technical (Scope, schedules, resource allocation, budgets, status reports) Sociocultural (Leadership, teamwork,negotiation, politics, customer expectations) |
Quality (3 constraints) | Scope Cost Time |
The Waterfall Method | Understand the requirement Design the solution Implement and test Maintain it Problem: separates stakeholders, no rapid prototypes (fast failure - test at the start) |
Agile approach | Focus on collaboration Self-management Accountability Aligned with customer needs Low constraints challenging for PM |
Implementation Gap | Gap between vision, strategy and implementation Lack of consensus and trust Under-resourced People feel inefficeint |
In Project Management, The Iron Triangle refers to: | A model of the constraints of scope, time and cost that will impact the quality of the project |
A sign of a project team struggling with an implememntation gap | Teams members cannot prioritise projects clearly and often switch between projects High levels of conflict and lack of trust among functional (middle) managers Projects are not properly resourced |
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