Exam 1: Managing Effective Organizations

Organizational effectives is a(n)_____________.

The systems approach provides the structure to effectively evaluate organizational impact on "stakeholders."

Pat has created a structure to support a plan.Which management function has pat just completed?

Management typically performs four functions.Identify and define these functions.Provide an example of each within the context of your school.

Standards of performance are associated with the _______ management function.

Job design looks at contents,methods and relationships of jobs to the exclusive end of meeting organizational requirements.

"Influence" is associated with the _________ function of management.

In straightforward terms,the organization's ____________ is its personality,atmosphere,or "feel."

Describe the types of environmental forces that make it necessary for organizations to initiate changes.

Chris interacts daily with the members of the group she supervises.What function of management is Chris fulfilling?

The systems theory approach to effectiveness _________.

The text provides several facets of individual behavior managers must understand to influence individual performance.What are these areas and their relevance to individual performance?

The text provides stress as a cause of both individual and group effectiveness.

Anthropology has contributed to the study and application of OB.

Managers derive power from ________ sources.

Pat has just set and defined the means to achieve an end.This an example of ________.

Systems theorist propose that systems can be categorized in three ways: conceptual,interpersonal and concrete.

Mintzberg identified ________.

This theory has been used to combine goal and systems approaches to obtain a more appropriate approach to organizational effectiveness.

Planning involves establishing where the organization is going but not how it is going to get there.