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It deals with chalking out a future course of action, and deciding in advance the most appropriate course of actions for achievement of predetermined goals.
Planning
Organizing
Staffing
Directing
Controlling
Bridges the gap from where we are and where we want to be.
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Determination of courses of action to achieve desired goals.
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Necessary to ensure proper utilization of human and non-human resources.
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Organizing
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A systematic thinking about ways and means for accomplishment of predetermined goals.
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Directing
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It involves determining and providing human and non-human resources to the organizational structure.
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Organizing
Staffing
Directing
Controlling
According to Henry Fayol, "To organize a business is to provide it with __________ or its functions i.e. raw material, tools, capital and personnel's."
Everything useful
Everything needed
Objectives
Every goals
It is the function of manning the organization structure.
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Organizing
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Directing
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Its main purpose is to put right man on right job i.e. square pegs in square holes and round pegs on round holes.
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Organizing
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A managerial function which actuates the organizational methods to work efficiently for achieving of organizational purposes.
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Organizing
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Directing
Controlling
Telling people what to do and seeing that they do it to the best of their ability.
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Organizing
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Measurement of accomplishment against the standards and correction of deviation if any to ensure achievement of organizational goals.
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Organizing
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Directing
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Look ahead and chart a course
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Organizing
Staffing
Directing
Controlling
Select and arrange people
Planning
Organization
Command
Coordination
Control
Oversee, lead, stay out of details
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Organization
Command
Coordination
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Harmonize and facilitate
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Organization
Command
Coordination
Control
Ensure compliance on accounting, finance, technical, and quality control
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Organization
Command
Coordination
Control
The process of organizing involves the following, except:
Coordinating authority and responsibility relationships
Delegation of authority and creation of responsibility
Measurement of actual performance
Assignment of duties
Implies overseeing the work of subordinates by their superiors. It is the act of watching & directing work & workers
Supervision
Motivation
Leadership
Communication
Means inspiring, stimulating or encouraging the sub-ordinates with zeal to work. Positive, negative, monetary, non-monetary incentives may be used for this purpose.
Supervision
Motivation
Leadership
Communication
May be defined as a process by which manager guides and influences the work of subordinates in desired direction.
Supervision
Motivation
Leadership
Communication
The process of passing information, experience, opinion, etc., from one person to another. It is a bridge of understanding.
Supervision
Motivation
Leadership
Communication
The purpose of controlling is to ensuring that everything occurs in incongruity with the standards.
True
False
Partially True
Partially False
According to Steve Jobs, "Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking ________ to make it simple."
Straight
Wise
Balance
Clean
Task specialization to increase productivity
Division of work
Authority and responsibility
Discipline
Unity of command
The right to give orders and exact obedience
Division of work
Authority and responsibility
Discipline
Unity of command
"Obedience, application, energy" of the individual and warnings, fines, and suspensions for enforcement
Division of work
Authority and responsibility
Discipline
Unity of command
An employee should receive orders from one supervisor only
Division of work
Authority and responsibility
Discipline
Unity of command
One head and one plan for a group of activities having the same direction
Unity of direction
Subordination of individual interest to general interest
Remuneration of personnel
Centralization
Should put personal interest aside for better output
Unity of direction
Subordination of individual interest to general interest
Remuneration of personnel
Centralization
Pay should be fair and should reward "well-directed effort"
Unity of direction
Subordination of individual interest to general interest
Remuneration of personnel
Centralization
Establish the most effective balance between centralization and decentralization
Unity of direction
Subordination of individual interest to general interest
Remuneration of personnel
Centralization
Must follow the "chain of superiors" up to communicate across
Scalar Chain
Order
Equity
Stability of tenure and personnel
"The right man in the right place" to form an effective social order
Scalar Chain
Order
Equity
Stability of tenure and personnel
"Desire for equity and equality treatment" of employees, a combination of "kindliness and justice.
Scalar Chain
Order
Equity
Stability of tenure and personnel
Stay in their job when they are good at their job
Scalar Chain
Order
Equity
Stability of tenure and personnel
Should encourage and inspire the initiative of employees
Equity
Stability of tenure and personnel
Initiative
Esprit de Corps
Seek to establish unity and harmony
Equity
Stability of tenure and personnel
Initiative
Esprit de Corps
Preliminary function of management, which involves deciding in advance what is to be done in future, when is the right time to do it, how we can do it, and who will do it.
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Organizing
Staffing
Directing
Controlling
Systematic arrangement, grouping, synchronizing, and coordinating the activities and resources of the company so as to achieve the business objectives.
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Inspiring, motivating, counselling, guiding, leading, supervising, and monitoring the subordinates, so that they can perform assigned task, in an efficient way.
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Organizing
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Directing
Controlling
Placing right person at the right job. It involves hiring and retaining an eligible and competent workforce, to fill the vacancies in the organization.
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Organizing
Staffing
Directing
Controlling
Backward looking process that helps in keeping a check on the activities of the organization, to identify the errors and omissions in the activities and take corrective actions in order to overcome the deviations from its goal.
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Organizing
Staffing
Directing
Controlling
Prerequisite of doing anything. Mental efforts by which managers anticipate and possible causes that may affect the activities of an organization. Leads to more effective and faster achievements in organization.
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Organizing
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Directing
Controlling
Bridge connecting the conceptual ideas developed in planning. Process of bringing together physical, financial, and human resources.
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Controls all recruitment and personal needs of the organization. Encompasses training and development, performance appraisals, promotions and transfer.
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Life-spark of the organization which sets it in motion the action of people.
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Organizing
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Directing
Controlling
Process of checking whether or not proper progress is being made towards the objectives and goal and acting if necessary to correct any deviation
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Organizing
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Directing
Controlling
Is the conscious, purposeful, and systematic process of setting the strategies, priorities, objectives, goals, and tactics to be pursued by the organization.
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Organizing
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Directing
Controlling
Is a collection of people and other resources
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Organizing
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Directing
Controlling
Managers need to coordinate many and varied activities of everyone involved reaching across the organization
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Organizing
Staffing
Directing
Controlling
Maintaining discipline and making constant adjustment in processes to ensure they are both effective and efficient
Planning
Organizing
Staffing
Directing
Controlling
Following are compensation function under operative functions; except from one:
Job Evaluation
Performance Appraisal
Wage Salary Administration
Bonus and Incentives
Ensure all staff are working on a common goal
Planning
Organizing
Command
Coordination
Control
Setting targets and measuring outcomes and compare with targets
Planning
Organizing
Command
Coordination
Control
Type of control that corrects problems as they happen
Corrective
Detective
Preventive
Associative
Involves the careful collection of information about a system, process, person, or group of people in order to make necessary action about each performance.
Control Process
Integration Process
Operative Process
Managerial Process
An operative function that deals with: Job analysis, recruitment, placement, induction, transfer, and promotion.
Procurement
Development
Compensation
Integration
Maintenance
This involves comparison of actual performance to standards.
Establish performance objectives and standards
Measure actual performance
Compare actual performance with objective standards
Take necessary action
________ are the criteria which actual performance is to be measure
Policies
Measures
Standards
Goals
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