Business

Which scenario illustrates the creative aspect of directing?

A manager instructs employees to develop a new website.

Which scenario depicts the directing function?

A supervisor tells her team the tasks it needs to complete.

The first task in the HR management activity of staffing is...

Determining Need

**Which is an activity associated with the organizing function of management?

Determining the division of labor or maintaining a consistent and fair work environment

An important aspect of the organizing function of management involves:

Establishing levels of authority

Which organizational design groups people together based on specialty?

Functional Structure

Which type of organizational design has an emphasis on teamwork?

Functional design

** Department manager, small business manager, and regional manager are ___________ Positions?

General Management

What are rules and regulations for keeping a project on track?

Governance mechanisms

Which question should a manager consider when hiring a new employee?

How will the company compensate this worker?

Benefits Administrator, Labor Relations Manager, and Compensation Analyst are positions within:

Human Resource Management

A primary activity of the directing function of management is:

Initiating Action

What project management stage involves determining whether a project is feasible?

Initiation Stage

It is important for employees to follow the rules of conduct established by management to:

Maintain a consistent and fair work environment

Process Improvement Specialist and Call Center Supervisor are positions within:

Operations

**Dara is in charge of quality control at her company. Which type of business management and administration career does she have?

Operations Management

Jackson plans to increase his business's sales by 15% in eight months. To reach this goal, he increased the business's advertising budget. Which function of management does this represent?

Planning

A project is officially authorized to begin by the...

Project Charter

The primary purpose of developing organizational goals

Provide Direction

What project management stage involves determining when project tasks should be performed

Scheduling

The key to recruiting is:

Selecting which applicants to interview

One of the most important aspects of project management involves:

Setting goals

What are the characteristics of tactical planning?

Short term, narrow

Number of levels of management that a business needs usually depends on

Size of the Company

The number of employees that a manager can effectively supervise is their:

Span of Control

Middle-level administrators work to take broad goals and make them more specific to their unit(s). What are these goals called?

Tactical plans

A workforce analysis assesses

The Human resources that are available

Which is the first step of effective managerial planning?

Use a systematic approach to establish objectives.

Which question should effective managerial planning answer?

What do we want to do?

What type of plan should a business implement when the original plan fails to produce the desired results?

contingency plan

every project creates a(n)

deliverable

What is the most important resource to a business?

employees/ people

The purpose of an organizational design for a business is to:

improving efficiency and effectiveness

**Which of the following is an important function of mid-level management?

integrating work groups and serve as a link between top and first line management

One way to determine whether an employee is helping a business achieve its organizational goals is by

linking performance measures to meeting internal and external customers' needs

An important purpose of management is to ________ the business

Achieve its objectives

Which type of business management and administration career is all about people?

Human Resource Management

**A plant manager or a department head would be an example of which level of management?

Middle

**Jill's company just took on a new project, and she knows that she needs to decide which staff members will be in charge of each aspect of the project. Jill is

Organizing

What management function is responsible for coordinating resources in ways that maximize efficiency?

Organizing

When developing a human resources management strategy, managers

determine how to bridge gaps between HR needs and available HR.

three primary factors that affect the organizational structure of a business include interpersonal relationships, tasks, and

authority

**Shawna is in charge of helping her company achieve its goals through the proper hiring and use of employees. Which type of business management and administration career does Shawna have?

Human Resources

Which of the following is the main purpose of management?

To accomplish the businesses goals

Which person has a general manager career?

Calista manages a small business.

Tom needs Allison to provide a status report so he can review inventory levels. After Tom has reviewed the inventory report, he must tell Kayla which items the business needs so she can contact the appropriate vendors to order stock. To achieve the business's goal of maintaining adequate inventory levels, each employee must perform his/her tasks in a/an ______________ order.

sequential