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Piece rate |
When an employee is paid a fixed rate for each unit they produce |
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Goal of feminism |
complete equality between woman and man |
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Lawrence kohlberg |
Moral development was a 6 stage process |
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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 |
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Mary wollstonecraft |
Feminist philosopher and writer |
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Dihairesis |
The judgment itself that was made by a person's prohairesis |
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Prohairesis |
Called the distinguishing factor that separated human beings from all other creatures on the planet |
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Paradox |
Is something that seems to be contradictory and yet my none the less be true |
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OSHA |
Occupational safety and health administration |
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EEO |
Equal employment opportunity |
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COBRA |
comprehensive omnibus budget reconciliation act |
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Situational leadership |
When you choose the best action for each situation |
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Participative leadership |
When a supervisor ask for opinions and making decisions |
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Mission statement |
Tells employees and others what the main purpose of the company is |
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Extrinsic reward |
A reward that comes externally from a person such as a raise |
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Intrinsic reward |
A reward that comes from within such as self esteem |
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Organizational chart |
Shows the relationship between employees and their peers |
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Decision tree |
Shows alternate paths for decision making |
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Delphi technique |
When a supervisor administers a questionnaire among participants that have never met |
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Gantt chart |
Shows timelines for projects |
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Theory x |
When a supervisor believes that all employees are lazy and dislike work |
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Theory y |
When a supervisor believes that all employees like work |
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TQM stands for |
Total quality management |
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TQM's goal is |
Long term success through customer satisfaction |
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Autocratic leadership |
When the leader keeps the power and makes decisions alone |
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Matrix |
Is the organizational structure where organizations are structured around a special project or event |
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Line and staff |
Is the organizational structure where there are staff departments support other departments |
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Functional |
Is the organizational structure where a group performing a specialized task reports to a manager in that same area |
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Charisma |
Leadership characteristics that inspire employees |
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Information that is difficult to measure is called |
Qualitative |
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Hawthorne effect |
When an interest in people changes the effect on the output |
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Henri fayol |
Is responsible for developing the 14 principles of management |
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Limiting factor |
Is something which stands in the way of achieving a goal |
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The core of planning is |
Decision making |
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Policy |
Is a predetermined action course that serves as a guide for the identified and accepted objectives and goals |
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Objectives |
Goals of an organization towards accomplishment of which all organizational activities are directed |
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Traditional authority |
Is given to those with a specific title or function such as supervisor or vice president |
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Who created Theory X &Theory Y |
Douglas McGregor |
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hierarchy of needs |
Moslows |
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4 stages of groups |
forming storming norming conforming |
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4 elements in a control system |
Is standards , measurement of performance, casual analysis, corrective action |
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Empowerment |
Allowing employees to make their own decisions to help customers |
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In centralization all authority is concentrated where? |
At the top |
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In a matrix organization a worker has how many bosses |
Two |
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line employee |
Someone who works on any type of assembly line, manufacturing |
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What are the 2 types of organizational structures |
wide span a narrow span |
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The mechanistic theory |
Organizational change is inevitable and that organizations and people within the organizations have no other choice except following natural law |
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Classical organizational theory |
Is the division of labor, vertical and horizontal specialization, etc |
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Job enrichment |
Adding more job responsibilities |
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How often should a performance review take place? |
Yearly |
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Terminated |
Fired |
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Compensation |
Salary and benefits |
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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 |
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Whistle blowing |
When an employee reports to the media or the government about a company's wrongdoing |
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Forward scheduling |
Starts today and works out the scheduled date for each operation in order to find out the completion date for the order |
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Loading |
Is working out of hours required to perform each operation |
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Business ethics |
A collection of principles and codes of conduct that affect the way companies do business |
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Studied operant conditioning |
B.F Skinner |
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Laissez faire leadership |
A hands off leadership approach with little supervision |
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Stress |
Is a person's response to change |
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Procedures |
Is a plan that shows what methods are to be used |
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Training |
A program built primarily to assist employee development |
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Staffing |
Is a systematic and methodical filling up of positions |
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Just in time inventory |
An inventory management system in which inventory arrives only when it is needed |
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Methods of risk management |
Assuming the risk minimizing the risk avoiding the risk or shifting the risk |
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Avoiding the risk |
Avoiding certain industries |
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operations research |
Considers various factors to build a mathematical decision making formula |
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Employee counseling |
Is counseling available for employees typically offered through a medical plan |
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Systems theory |
Deals with interdependence instead of independence of variables |
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group dynamics |
Deals with role playing coupled with simulation which seek to emphasize group behavior |
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Decentralization |
decision making is widely dispersed |
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Classification method |
Define grades for requirements that are found common to various tasks |
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Ranking system |
Determine salary according to a ranking based on overall importance and responsibilities |
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Controlling |
Determining if the methods being used adequately match plan results |
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Unions |
Formal associations of employees to represent employees in negotiations with management |
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Personnel records |
Give all the data in the application along with education records test scores and other factors |
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Personnel appraisal |
Helps the employee to know their strengths weaknesses opportunities and threats |
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Directing |
Leadership plus motivation plus communication |
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personnel administration |
Looks into manpower resources aims at harmonious labor works to achieve organizational goals and keeps records |
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United States Department of Labor |
Makes sure that companies are in compliance with federal employment laws |
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Organizational development |
Methodical approach which seeks to improve organizational effectiveness |
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Message of recruiting |
Newspaper and television ads headhunters staffing firms word-of-mouth etc. |
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Productivity |
Output/input |
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managerial function |
planning organizing directing and controlling |
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Factor comparison |
Points are allotted and wage rates for such key jobs |
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Morale boosting |
Make sure that companies are in compliance with federal employment laws |
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shifting the risk |
Purchasing insurance policies |
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Operative function |
Recruiting developing compensating and keeping records |
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Points system |
Requirements appropriate to each job are analyzed and quantified |
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Minimizing the risk |
Screening employees network passwords etc |
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Budgets |
Statements of targeted results reduced to quantifiable terms |
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Assuming the risk |
Setting aside enough money to pay for potential losses |
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Eustress |
Stress that is used positively for personal growth |
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Risk analysis |
Tells you what probabilities are there to arrive at divisional Outcomes |
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Communication |
The main purpose is to influence action and achieve goals |
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Motivation |
The more motivated an employee is the higher their work ability |
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Lead time |
The time it takes to get an inventory item (from ordering to arrival) |
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Methods of discipline |
Verbal warnings written warnings suspension and termination |
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Collective bargaining |
When a group with similar interest bargains as a unit |
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Vertical specialization |
When delegation is done there's an existing line of authority |
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Is horizontal specialization |
When one position is divided among more than 1 person |
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Delegation |
When supervisors pass on parts of their required task to others |
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On the job training |
When you learn the job by actually doing it |
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Supervisor |
Works with people and groups to achieving organization goals |
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Is affirmative action |
Benefiting underrepresented groups by taking factors such as race gender or religion into account in business and educational settings |
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ISO |
International organization for standardization |
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Three 1st professions |
Is medicine law and the ministry |
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Is paternalism |
The way people are governed or treated by an authority |
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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 |
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Distributive Justice |
Is with a strict or radical form of equality that is said to be necessary for all people |
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Is balancing harms |
Is balancing the harms that exist in both sides of the example of an ethical situation |
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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 |
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What are stem cells? |
Cell which have the potential to become any type of cell |