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17 Cards in this Set
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What are managers?
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Individuals in an organization who direct the activities of others.
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What is management?
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Process of getting activities completed
efficiently and effectively with and through people |
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What is efficiency?
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The relationship between inputs and outputs, seeks to minimize resource costs
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What is effectiveness?
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Goal attainment.
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What are management functions?
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Planning, organizing, leading and controlling.
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What are management roles?
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Specific catagories of management behavior.
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What are three management skills
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Technical
Human Conceptual |
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What is organizational culture
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A system of shared meaning within an organization that determines how employees act
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Environment
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Outside forces that affect an organization's performance
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Parochialism
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A selfish narrow view of the world
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What is social obligation
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Obligation of a business to meet its economic and legal responsibilities
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What is social responsiveness
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Capacity of a firm to adapt to changing social conditions
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What is value based management
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Approach to managing in which managers establish , promote and practice an organizations shared values
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What is organizing
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Process of creating an organizational structure
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What is organizational structure
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Organizations framework as expressed by its degree of complexity
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What is span of control
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# of subordinates a manager can effectively control
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What is change
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Alteration in people, structure or technology
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