Exam 13: Organizational Design

A job analysis is a first step to preparing a job description.

Strategic plans may be considered "standing plans."

Which of the following is the best synonym for division of labor?

A new employee would find which of the following management tools the most useful:

A vision statement should be developed by those at the top management level of the organization.

A job specification describes the:

An organization chart does not show which of the following?

Which of the following managerial skills should comprise the largest component of the work of top-level management dietitians?

Human relations is an approach to management that emphasizes the needs of the workers.

Formal authority and status are most related to which group of roles?

A tall, narrow pyramidal organizational shape would tell us which of the following about the organization?

A personnel manager may have a number of subordinate managers over whom the personnel manager has positional authority. In that sense, the personnel manager is a manager. If however, the personnel manager should give advice to a production manager as a part of a recommendation she is functioning as a manager.

Which of the following is the next step most managers take after setting goals and objectives?

The correct order of development in strategic management is:

Top level management is more involved in directing than planning.

(Place the letter of the management theory in Column B that has made the contribution to current thinking listed in Column A.)

Which of the following principles suggests that no organizational member should report to more than one supervisor?

A manager using influence to encourage employees and to assist them in reconciling their needs with the goals of the organization is engaging in which of the following roles?