Management

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Organization

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collections of people who work together and coordinate their actions to achieve a wide variety of goals or desired future outcomes

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Managers

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the people responsible for supervising and making the most of an organization’s human and other resources to achieve its goals.

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Efficiency

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is a measure of how well or how productively resources are used to achieve a goal

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Effectiveness

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the measure of the appropriateness of the goals an organization is pursuing and of the degree to which the organization achieves these goals.

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Managerial Tasks

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perform each of the four essential managerial tasks of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling at all levels

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Organizing

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task managers perform to create a structure of working relationships that allow organizational members to interact and cooperate to achieve organizational goals

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Leading

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articulating a clear vision and energizing and enables organizational members so that they understand the part they play in achieving organizational goals; one of the four principal tasks of management

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Controlling

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Evaluating how well an organization is achieving its goals and taking action to maintain or improve performance, one of the four principal tasks of management

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Negotiator

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work with suppliers, distributors, and labor unions to reach agreements about the quality and price of input, technical, and human resources; work with other organizations to establish agreements to pool resources to work joint projects

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Department

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a group of people who work together and possess similar skills or use the same knowledge, tools, or techniques to perform their jobs

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Conceptual skills

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the ability to analyze and diagnose a situation and to distinguish between cause and effect

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Human skills

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the ability to understand, alter, lead, and control the behavior of other individuals and groups

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Technical Skills

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the job specific knowledge and techniques required to perform an organizational role

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Core competency

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the specific set of department skills, knowledge, and experience that allows one organization to outperform another

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Restructuring

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downsizing an organization by eliminating the jobs of large numbers of top, middle, and first line managers and nonmanagerial employees