Managers and Management Quiz

What is the process of working with and through others to achieve organizational objectives in a changing environment called?

• Management

• Leading

• Planning

• Organizing

_____ is important to the management process.

• Maintaining the status quo in a changing environment

• Maximizing profits

• The effective and efficient use of limited resources

• Becoming an employee-centered leader

________ is about achieving a stated objective, whereas ________ enters the picture when the resources are utilized without wastage.

• Quality; quantity

• Effectiveness; efficiency

• Effectiveness; quality

• Efficiency; quality

Changing his major three times, Scott earned his college degree after retaking four classes and spending twice as much as his family had budgeted. In terms of the definition of management, Scott was

• ineffective but efficient.

• partly effective and partly efficient.

• effective but not efficient.

• neither effective nor efficient.

_______ is the managerial function that involves structural issues, such as chain of command, division of labor, and allocating responsibility.

• Organizing

• Staffing

• Planning

• Controlling

Organizing includes ________.

• setting organizational goals

• hiring organizational members

• motivating organizational members

• determining who does what tasks

Motivating subordinates is primarily associated with the management function of ________.

• planning

• organizing

• leading

• controlling

Which of the following skills tend to be more important for first-line managers since they manage employees who produce the organization's product?

• human

• technical

• conceptual

• empirical

Which of the following is TRUE concerning the three managerial skills?

• Technical skills tend to be most important for middle-level managers.

• Conceptual skills are most important for lower-level managers.

• Human skills remain important to all levels of management.

• Technical skills increase and conceptual skills decrease in importance as a manager climbs the organizational chart.

Which of the following skills involves the ability to work well with other people, both individually and in a group?

• technical skills

• assessment skills

• planning skills

• human skills