Management Final: Test Questions
Kristy is communications director is very competent, her boss annoys her, tells her what to do and how to do it. He is using ______ Leadership.
Directive leadership
Every adult volunteering for girl scouts must have a background check before working with kids. This is what type of control?
Feed forward/Preliminary control
Income statements, balance sheets, audits are examples of the control of what?
Financial Resources
Which of the following statements describes the advantages to oral communication?
Immediate response, can see emotion
Adam is human resource specialist who firmly believes that whatever happens to him is result of hard work and perspiration. Which is describes his attitude towards himself?
Internal Locus of control
Two brothers Ding and Dong are part of a development team, argue about product launch, and negatively affect team. What sort of conflict is this?
Intragroup—Within the group
Which of the following is type of power someone has due to position they hold in an organization?
Legitimate
Which of the following is NOT a type of power?
Legitimate, reward, coercive, referent, and expert are all powers
Windows operating system is used in 90% of worlds pc, Microsoft (producer of Windows) has an international ________
Strength
Flat Organizations
Wider span of management Fewer managers, with more responsibility
_______ Control is a form of organizational control categorized by formal, mechanistic structure arrangements.
Bureaucratic
Last step in control process?
Consider corrective action
Managers of a business specialize in meeting the needs of special age groups. Represents what type of organization?
Customer Departmentalization
Tall Organizations
Narrow Span of management More managers, more expensive
Pam's manager told her she has 8000 labor hours to delegate in a week. This is an example of a _______ budget.
Nonmonetary budget
Home Depot Marketing department could set a _______ to get an internet ad out next week
Operational Plan or action plan
MySpace was the first big social network; the headlines about predator danger gave Facebook an opportunity to enter the market as a safer way to network. The safer perception of Facebook is what kind of strength?
Organizational strength.
Lands End prides itself on quality control; if things aren't perfect at the end of production they sell their product for a reduced price...
Post-action
College admission board requires students to have certain grades and ACT scores to get in the school. What form of operations do these represent?
Preliminary
One of the reasons Steve Jobs was successful at apple was his charisma. What type of power is that?
Referent Power
The power that generally sets leaders apart from non-leaders is what type of power?
Referent Power
Order of goals/plans
Strategic, tactical, operational
