Exam 4: Meaning of Management

Mintzberg (1975) identified three broad categories of managerial roles; these are (a) ______________ roles, (b) ______________ roles, and (c) ______________ roles.

Human skills differ from technical skills in that human skills require a manager to be aware of how managerial decisions affect the total organization and its various parts.

Athletic directors act in a decisional role when they do which of the following?

The definitions of management highlight three common elements: (a) ________________, (b) ________________, and (c) ________________.

________________ involves the setting of goals for an organization and its members.

The four functions of management are sequential and independent.

Quarterman (1994) found that conference commissioners believed their most important managerial role was that of:

According to Katz (1974), proficiency of an activity is related to which skill?

The effective manager has no regular duties to perform; he or she is simply a delegator.

Management is the coordination of the efforts of different people toward a common end.

__________________ skill is the ability to see the enterprise as a whole and understand how the various parts of the organization affect each other and the total organization.