BADM 509 MANAGING ORGANIZATIONS
ACTUAL EXAM SCRIPT 2026 QUESTIONS
WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
● What is a managers goal? Answer: high performance
● Efficiency Answer: minimizing the amount of input resources needed
to produce goods/services
● Effectiveness Answer: choose appropriate goals and achieve them.
● High-performing organizations are ___ and _____. Answer: Efficient
and effective
● What are the four essential tasks of management? Answer: Planning,
Organizing, Leading, Controlling
● Planning Answer: Which goals, what course of action and how to
allocate resources.
● Organizing Answer: grouping people into departments, dictating
responsibility. Leads to an organizational structure.
, ● Leading Answer: articulation of a clear vision (desired future state).
Using power, personality, persuasion, and comm skills to ensure
activities/efforts are in harmony. Involves coordinating, motivating, and
energizing people to work together.
● Controlling Answer: measure appropriate goals. Take any necessary
corrective action.
● The three levels of managers are? Answer: First-line, Middle
managers and Top managers.
● Top managers typically focus more on the _____ aspect of
management while lower level managers focus more on____. Answer:
Planning and organizing. Leading and controlling.
● Effective managers need which 3 skills? Answer: Conceptual Skills,
Human Skills and technical skills.
● Conceptual Skills Answer: ability to analyze and diagnose, focus on
big picture and LT goals and is most important to top managers.
● Human Skills Answer: Ability to understand, alter, lead, and control
behavior of others. Ability to communicate, to coordinate and motivate
people.
ACTUAL EXAM SCRIPT 2026 QUESTIONS
WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
● What is a managers goal? Answer: high performance
● Efficiency Answer: minimizing the amount of input resources needed
to produce goods/services
● Effectiveness Answer: choose appropriate goals and achieve them.
● High-performing organizations are ___ and _____. Answer: Efficient
and effective
● What are the four essential tasks of management? Answer: Planning,
Organizing, Leading, Controlling
● Planning Answer: Which goals, what course of action and how to
allocate resources.
● Organizing Answer: grouping people into departments, dictating
responsibility. Leads to an organizational structure.
, ● Leading Answer: articulation of a clear vision (desired future state).
Using power, personality, persuasion, and comm skills to ensure
activities/efforts are in harmony. Involves coordinating, motivating, and
energizing people to work together.
● Controlling Answer: measure appropriate goals. Take any necessary
corrective action.
● The three levels of managers are? Answer: First-line, Middle
managers and Top managers.
● Top managers typically focus more on the _____ aspect of
management while lower level managers focus more on____. Answer:
Planning and organizing. Leading and controlling.
● Effective managers need which 3 skills? Answer: Conceptual Skills,
Human Skills and technical skills.
● Conceptual Skills Answer: ability to analyze and diagnose, focus on
big picture and LT goals and is most important to top managers.
● Human Skills Answer: Ability to understand, alter, lead, and control
behavior of others. Ability to communicate, to coordinate and motivate
people.
