1. The process of management involves the functions of planning , leading, and controlling.
a. accounting
b. creating
c. innovating
d. Organizing (CORRECT)
2. An effective manager achieves both high-performance results and high levels of
people_______ doing the required work.
a. turnover
b. effectiveness
c. satisfaction (CORRECT)
d. stress
3. Performance efficiency is a measure of _________ the associated with task
accomplishment.
a. resource costs (CORRECT)
b. goal specificity
c. product quality
d. product quantity
4. The requirement that a manager answer to a higher-level boss for performance results
achieved by a work team is called ________ .
a. dependency
b. Accountability (CORRECT)
c. authority
d. empowerment
5. Productivity is a measure of the quantity and ________ of work produced, relative to the
cost of inputs.
a. Quality (CORRECT)
b. cost
c. timeliness
d. value
6. _______ managers pay special attention to the external environment, looking for
problems and opportunities and finding ways for the organization to best deal with them.
, a. Top (CORRECT)
b. Middle
c. Lower
d. First-line
7. The accounting manager for a local newspaper would be considered a ______
manager, whereas the editorial director for sports would be considered a ______
manager.
a. general, functional (CORRECT)
b. middle, top
c. staff, line
d. senior, junior
8. When a team leader clarifies desired work targets and deadlines for members of a work team,
he or she is fulfilling the management function of ______ .
a. Planning (CORRECT)
b. delegating
c. controlling
d. supervising
9. The process of building and maintaining good relationships with others who may help
implement a manager’s work agendas is called ______ .
a. governance
b. Networking (CORRECT)
c. authority
d. entrepreneurship
10. In Katz’s framework, top managers tend to rely more on their ______ skills than do
first-line managers.
a. human
b. Conceptual (CORRECT)
c. decision-making
d. technical
11. The research of Mintzberg and others concludes that managers ______ .
a. work at a leisurely pace
b. have blocks of private time for planning
c. are never free from the pressures of performance responsibility (CORRECT)
d. have the advantages of flexible work hours