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Managers and Management 2
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1. Part of what defines an organization is its purpose.
2. Managers who are effective at meeting organizational goals always act efficiently.
3. Because management is affected by a nation's form of government, an understanding of political science is important for managers whose organizations do business globally.
4. Determining who reports to whom is part of the controlling function of management.
5. Supervisors and team leaders may both be considered first-line managers.
6. Most people who study management think that Fayol's categories are more useful than Mintzberg's.
7. The four contemporary management processes are planning, organizing, leading, and commanding.
8. A small business manager in many ways combines the roles of top manager and first-line manager in a large business.
9. The study of economics is useful only to top managers.
10. A goal of efficiency is to minimize output costs while maximizing input costs.
11. In Mintzberg's view, the roles of figurehead, leader, and liaison are all interpersonal roles.
12. Effectiveness refers to the relationship between inputs and outputs.
13. Defining goals is a key part of the organizing function of management.
14. To better understand values and attitudes that are common to all people, a manager may study anthropology.
15. A manager in a large business generally will spend more of her time as a spokesperson and entrepreneur than her counterpart in a small business.
16. Because profit, or the 'bottom line,' is not the measure of success for not-for-profit organizations, managers of charitable organizations do not have to concern themselves with the financial aspects of their organizations.
17. Effectiveness refers to the attainment of the organization's goals.
18. Disturbance handler is one of Mintzberg's interpersonal roles.
19. All organizations have a structure that in some ways serves to define and limit the behavior of members of the organization.
20. Providing motivation is part of the controlling function of management.
21. A key difference between Fayol's and Mintzberg's view of management is that Fayol's view was based on empirical observations of managers in action.
22. All managers devote at least some of their time to planning.
23. Today's managers are just as likely to be women as they are men.
24. Technical skills involve a manager's ability to think logically and effectively about abstract situations.
25. In order to be considered a manager, an individual must direct or oversee the work of others.