Leadership and Management test 2

Departmentalization

Divides responsibility among specific units, or departments.

Planning

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

Organizing

A management function that includes designing the structure of the organization. Also, creating conditions and systems in which everyone and everything work together to achieve the organization's goals and objectives. Obtaining and coordinating resources so that a business's objectives can be met.

Staffing

A management function that includes hiring, motivating, and retaining the best people available to accomplish the company's objectives. Recruiting, developing, and hiring the most qualified people.

Decentralized Authority

Allows organizations to remain agile, fast, and adaptable with almost every employee receiving a high level of personal agency.

Line Authority Organization

An organization structure in which decision-making authority is maintained at the top level of management.

Centralized Authority

An organizing structure where the main unit has the power, right, and ability to control smaller units. An organization structure in which decision-making authority is maintained at the top level of management.

Two Types of Authority

Centralized Authority Decentralized Authority

Controlling

Monitoring performance, comparing it with goals, and taking corrective action as needed within an organization. Setting standards for work, evaluating performance, and solving problems that prevent certain task completion.

Five Functions of Management

Planning Organizing Staffing Leading / Directing / Implementing Controlling

Directing / Leading / Implementing

The management function of providing guidance to workers and work projects. Influencing, guiding, and directing people under one's management to carry out their assigned tasks.