The four functions of management are planning, leading, organizing, and controlling.
To achieve successful goals of management includes people, money, and time.
Managers who report to higher-level managers but are supervisors to lower-level managers are considered to be first-line managers.
Another name for first-line managers is supervisory.
Determining an organizational goal and action plan for achieving those goals is called organizing.
Monitoring performance and making adjustments as needed is the role of controlling.
Required skills for managers would include: (check all of the following)
Communication skills
Technical skills
Conceptual skills
Human skills
Operational skills
Organizational skills
The need to feel secure, free of harm, and free of fear is the need for safety.
List in order from easiest to fulfill to the most difficult to fulfill in Maslow's Needs.
physiological, social, esteem, safety, self-actualization
social, physiological, esteem, safety, self-actualization
Safety, physiological, esteem, social, self-actualization
physiological, safety, social, esteem, self-actualization
Establishes a vision for the company is the job of tactical planning.
The relationship among individual effort, individual performance, and individual reward is the equity theory.
For unexpected events, involving a range of scenarios and assumptions that differ from the assumptions behind the core plans are a part of Contingency Planning.
The SWOT analysis helps managers evaluate an organization by external strengths and weaknesses, and internal opportunities and threats.
Bringing specialists to different areas of the company to work on specific tasks or individual projects temporarily is called Line-and-Staff organization.
Set objectives for followers but give them freedom to do what they need to accomplish is called
democratic leaders
free-rein leaders
autocratic leaders
To encourage American firms to focus on quality improvement is ISO9000.
Funds a firm uses to acquire its assets and finance its operations is called?
Finance
Financial Capital
Risk-return Tradeoff
Financial Management
What are short-term financing sources? (Check all that apply)
Returned Investment
Commercial Paper
Factor
Capital Structure
Trade-Credit
Mix of equity and debt financing a firm's uses to meet its permanent financing needs is called Financial Leverage.
A budgeted income statement is a projection showing how a firm's budgeted sales assests( sales, assests ) and owner's equity costs( owner's equity, costs ) will affect expected net income.
Ability of a firm to obtain the cash it needs to pay short-term debt
Asset management ratios
Leverage ratios
Profitability ratios
Liquidity ratios
Employees who do not expect normal, full-time hours are called contingent workers.
Verifies the financial statements of a firm, prepared by an external auditor are management reports
Protects creditors by preventing the borrower from pursuing policies that might undermine its ability to repay loans
Commercial paper
Covenants
Trade credit
Money Market Mutual Fund
Specific and measurable, realistic but challenging, tied to a time frame
Noise
Decentralization
Clear Standards
Task Significance
Examples of Fixed Position Layout
Drilling and cranes
Trucks and ports
Nike Outlet
Office
Telecommunting...
Reduces the number of employees
Benefits the fixed cost for company
Decreases cost savings for employees
Increases cost savings for employees
Protect employees from unfair treatment by employers
Employment Legislation
Human Resources
GAAP
Commision