Introduction to Management

Skills and personal characteristics that a manager should acquire

• Behavioral flexibility

• Analytic thinking

• Resistance to stress

• Oral communication

• Leadership

Skills required by a manager

• Technical

• Human

• Conceptual

Below are components for P-O-L-C framework except

• Planning

• Organising

• Learning

• Controlling

Management is defined as the organizational function of using all available resources efficiently to achieve the best possible returns.

• True

• False

Features of Management

• Management is a universal phenomenon

• Management is a purposive activity

• Management is Goal-Oriented

• Management is Continuous

Creating company mission statement is

• Planning

• Controlling

• Organising

• Staffing

A manager engaged in the managerial function of______is monitoring progress toward goal achievement and taking corrective action when needed

• Motivating

• Planning

• Controlling

• Coordinating

Which function in management involves monitoring improvements and taking corrective actions whenever needed?

• Planning

• Organizing

• Leadership

• Controlling

Whose responsibility is it to set objectives that are consistent with an organisation's objectives as well as plan and implement the objectives?

• top management

• middle management

• lower level mangement

• team leader

Which of the following is NOT a level of management?

• top manager

• middle manager

• first- line manager

• executive manager