Exam 9: Management and Leadership in Today’s Organizations

Which of the following is the process of ensuring that the organization's objectives are being met and of correcting deviations from the plan?

Which of the following represents the four primary functions of management?

Management needs to be prepared to deal with problems and seize opportunities as they arise.A company often identifies alternative courses of action to be taken if events undercut a strategic or tactical plan.Which of the following types of planning is this?

Which of the following statements best describes empowering employees?

Which function is the foreman performing when he is assigning people to tasks to achieve corporate objectives?

Which of the following represents the process of guiding the development,maintenance,and allocation of resources to attain organizational goals?

Maeve Lupin was asked to attend a recent corporate board meeting in which the attendees discussed having all of the corporation's computerized data management done by a company in India.Being a computer specialist,she exerted considerable influence over the decision to outsource,illustrating which of the following?

A manager's ability to operate in diverse cultural environments depends primarily on his or her human relations skills.

No matter what the crisis,there are some basic guidelines managers should follow to minimize the negative outcomes.Which of the following is an example of one of those guidelines?

A manager who is placing a reorder for office supplies would be making a nonprogrammed decision.

The world's largest bank,Deutsche Bank,set as its objective to make its name more recognizable in the United States.The success of its decision to sponsor a PGA golf tournament to accomplish this goal will depend on which of the following management functions?

Top management usually performs which of the following tasks?

Which of the following statements best describes empowering employees?

Strategic planning is long range,formulated by top management,and performed as if the company operates in a vacuum.

A clothing wholesaler buys most of its inventory from manufacturers in the Caribbean.In the event a hurricane demolishes the manufacturing facility of one of its principal suppliers,the company should have which of the following?

At IBM,the MDX group is at a crossroad about how to market a new software package.Judy Ramsby,the head of the group,has told the group of managers that "it is up to the group.As long as they don't violate company policy,the decisions are up to them." Which of the following leadership styles is Judy Ramsby practising?

List the three basic categories of managerial roles.

Control is the mechanism for making sure the other three managerial functions-planning,organizing,and leadership-are operating smoothly.

Middle managers usually perform which of the following activities?

Which of the following concepts means giving employees increased autonomy and discretion to make decisions as well as control over the resources needed to make those decisions?