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Piece rate

When an employee is paid a fixed rate for each unit they produce

Goal of feminism

complete equality between woman and man

Lawrence kohlberg

Moral development was a 6 stage process

Envoirmental racism

Any practice which harms an environment that is low income or where a specific race (often minority) is prevalent more than it does other environments

Mary wollstonecraft

Feminist philosopher and writer

Dihairesis

The judgment itself that was made by a person's prohairesis

Prohairesis

Called the distinguishing factor that separated human beings from all other creatures on the planet

Paradox

Is something that seems to be contradictory and yet my none the less be true

OSHA

Occupational safety and health administration

EEO

Equal employment opportunity

COBRA

comprehensive omnibus budget reconciliation act

Situational leadership

When you choose the best action for each situation

Participative leadership

When a supervisor ask for opinions and making decisions

Mission statement

Tells employees and others what the main purpose of the company is

Extrinsic reward

A reward that comes externally from a person such as a raise

Intrinsic reward

A reward that comes from within such as self esteem

Organizational chart

Shows the relationship between employees and their peers

Decision tree

Shows alternate paths for decision making

Delphi technique

When a supervisor administers a questionnaire among participants that have never met

Gantt chart

Shows timelines for projects

Theory x

When a supervisor believes that all employees are lazy and dislike work

Theory y

When a supervisor believes that all employees like work

TQM stands for

Total quality management

TQM's goal is

Long term success through customer satisfaction

Autocratic leadership

When the leader keeps the power and makes decisions alone

Matrix

Is the organizational structure where organizations are structured around a special project or event

Line and staff

Is the organizational structure where there are staff departments support other departments

Functional

Is the organizational structure where a group performing a specialized task reports to a manager in that same area

Charisma

Leadership characteristics that inspire employees

Information that is difficult to measure is called

Qualitative

Hawthorne effect

When an interest in people changes the effect on the output

Henri fayol

Is responsible for developing the 14 principles of management

Limiting factor

Is something which stands in the way of achieving a goal

The core of planning is

Decision making

Policy

Is a predetermined action course that serves as a guide for the identified and accepted objectives and goals

Objectives

Goals of an organization towards accomplishment of which all organizational activities are directed

Traditional authority

Is given to those with a specific title or function such as supervisor or vice president

Who created Theory X &Theory Y

Douglas McGregor

hierarchy of needs

Moslows

4 stages of groups

forming storming norming conforming

4 elements in a control system

Is standards , measurement of performance, casual analysis, corrective action

Empowerment

Allowing employees to make their own decisions to help customers

In centralization all authority is concentrated where?

At the top

In a matrix organization a worker has how many bosses

Two

line employee

Someone who works on any type of assembly line, manufacturing

What are the 2 types of organizational structures

wide span a narrow span

The mechanistic theory

Organizational change is inevitable and that organizations and people within the organizations have no other choice except following natural law

Classical organizational theory

Is the division of labor, vertical and horizontal specialization, etc

Job enrichment

Adding more job responsibilities

How often should a performance review take place?

Yearly

Terminated

Fired

Compensation

Salary and benefits

Backward scheduling

Starts with the date on which the completed order is needed in the stores department for shipping then works out backwards to determine the relevant release date for the order

Whistle blowing

When an employee reports to the media or the government about a company's wrongdoing

Forward scheduling

Starts today and works out the scheduled date for each operation in order to find out the completion date for the order

Loading

Is working out of hours required to perform each operation

Business ethics

A collection of principles and codes of conduct that affect the way companies do business

Studied operant conditioning

B.F Skinner

Laissez faire leadership

A hands off leadership approach with little supervision

Stress

Is a person's response to change

Procedures

Is a plan that shows what methods are to be used

Training

A program built primarily to assist employee development

Staffing

Is a systematic and methodical filling up of positions

Just in time inventory

An inventory management system in which inventory arrives only when it is needed

Methods of risk management

Assuming the risk minimizing the risk avoiding the risk or shifting the risk

Avoiding the risk

Avoiding certain industries

operations research

Considers various factors to build a mathematical decision making formula

Employee counseling

Is counseling available for employees typically offered through a medical plan

Systems theory

Deals with interdependence instead of independence of variables

group dynamics

Deals with role playing coupled with simulation which seek to emphasize group behavior

Decentralization

decision making is widely dispersed

Classification method

Define grades for requirements that are found common to various tasks

Ranking system

Determine salary according to a ranking based on overall importance and responsibilities

Controlling

Determining if the methods being used adequately match plan results

Unions

Formal associations of employees to represent employees in negotiations with management

Personnel records

Give all the data in the application along with education records test scores and other factors

Personnel appraisal

Helps the employee to know their strengths weaknesses opportunities and threats

Directing

Leadership plus motivation plus communication

personnel administration

Looks into manpower resources aims at harmonious labor works to achieve organizational goals and keeps records

United States Department of Labor

Makes sure that companies are in compliance with federal employment laws

Organizational development

Methodical approach which seeks to improve organizational effectiveness

Message of recruiting

Newspaper and television ads headhunters staffing firms word-of-mouth etc.

Productivity

Output/input

managerial function

planning organizing directing and controlling

Factor comparison

Points are allotted and wage rates for such key jobs

Morale boosting

Make sure that companies are in compliance with federal employment laws

shifting the risk

Purchasing insurance policies

Operative function

Recruiting developing compensating and keeping records

Points system

Requirements appropriate to each job are analyzed and quantified

Minimizing the risk

Screening employees network passwords etc

Budgets

Statements of targeted results reduced to quantifiable terms

Assuming the risk

Setting aside enough money to pay for potential losses

Eustress

Stress that is used positively for personal growth

Risk analysis

Tells you what probabilities are there to arrive at divisional Outcomes

Communication

The main purpose is to influence action and achieve goals

Motivation

The more motivated an employee is the higher their work ability

Lead time

The time it takes to get an inventory item (from ordering to arrival)

Methods of discipline

Verbal warnings written warnings suspension and termination

Collective bargaining

When a group with similar interest bargains as a unit

Vertical specialization

When delegation is done there's an existing line of authority

Is horizontal specialization

When one position is divided among more than 1 person

Delegation

When supervisors pass on parts of their required task to others

On the job training

When you learn the job by actually doing it

Supervisor

Works with people and groups to achieving organization goals

Is affirmative action

Benefiting underrepresented groups by taking factors such as race gender or religion into account in business and educational settings

ISO

International organization for standardization

Three 1st professions

Is medicine law and the ministry

Is paternalism

The way people are governed or treated by an authority

Is retributive Justice

Theory that punishments are justified because criminals create an imbalance in the order of society which has to be taken care of by action

Distributive Justice

Is with a strict or radical form of equality that is said to be necessary for all people

Is balancing harms

Is balancing the harms that exist in both sides of the example of an ethical situation

All the law and the prophet hang upon the 2 great commandments to love thy neighbor and to love thy Lord God

Jesus Christ New Testament

What are stem cells?

Cell which have the potential to become any type of cell