Questions and CORRECT Answers
When a manager engages in activities that involve
interacting with others who may be external or internal to the organization, and at the same or
different level as the manager, he or she is
performing - CORRECT ANSWER -
What name is given to managers who schedule and
monitor the work process that turns out the goods or
services of the organization? - CORRECT ANSWER -
In terms of the organization and its resources, managers are individuals who - CORRECT
ANSWER - make decisions about the organization's resources.
Which of the following refers to using resources in a way that produces a desired result? -
CORRECT ANSWER - Effectively
You are the manager of the Fernwood Flailers, a
professional baseball team. Feckless Fred, your slugger, has not hit a home run in his last 200 at
bats. You call him in, discuss his home-run drought,
and show him an inspirational videotape of Ken Griffey, Jr., hitting long home runs. You are -
CORRECT ANSWER -
When the manager of the accounting department has the knowledge to answer his employees'
questions about current tax regulations, he is
displaying - CORRECT ANSWER - technical skills.
Your boss again asks you to complete three projects
, simultaneously, but you tell him the last time he did this you got a headache. You ask him to
assign you one at a time, and he agrees. What specific management skill have you displayed? -
CORRECT ANSWER - Assertiveness
The all-expenses-paid trip to Belgium that Colorado based
sustainable brewery New Belgium offers to 5-year employees is an excellent example of an
organization's - CORRECT ANSWER - rites and rituals.
Electronic business (e-business) involves achieving
management goals through the use of - CORRECT ANSWER - the Internet
The group of managers that is concerned with the value of the assets of the organization and the
wisdom of investment strategies is - CORRECT ANSWER - finance managers.
An activity that seems to be important for the effective performance of all the major management
functions is - CORRECT ANSWER - gathering and processing appropriate information.
What is meant by leading? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Mintzberg's description of the roles that managers actually perform is probably most valuable
because it is - CORRECT ANSWER - based on observation and very specific activities.
You develop a new method of assembling cardboard
boxes at the Carlton Cardboard Box Company that
requires two new computerized box-gluers but saves the firm a thousand square feet of space.
What
general managerial role category do your actions fall
into? - CORRECT ANSWER - Decisional