Business Management 1 - Final Exam Review

Front

The primary purpose of developing organizational goals is to:

Back

provide direction.

Front

What project management stage involves determining when project tasks should be performed?

Back

scheduling

Front

Sandy, a top-level manager, identifies jobs to be performed, assigns responsibility for them, establishes departments to handle the jobs, and determines how many and which employees the mid-level managers will supervise. Which function of management is Sandy performing?

Back

directing

Front

Amy and Tom work in a busy purchasing department. Amy relies on Tom to provide her with important information every day to do her job. Because the business’s ability to achieve its goals relies on Amy and Tom’s collaborative efforts, these two employees’ jobs are:

Back

interdependent

Front

Patrice tells her sales staff to spend one-fourth of their time on sales meetings, one-fourth on sales reports, one-fourth on answering emails, and one-fourth on generating new leads. Which step of the organizing process is Patrice demonstrating?

Back

allocating resources

Front

Which employee has a human resources management career? Options: Lydia is in charge of communicating with her business's suppliers. Brian is in charge of orienting new employees and preparing them to do their jobs. Michael helps his company align business and IT goals to aid in

Back

Brian is in charge of orienting new employees and preparing them to do their jobs.

Front

Which organization structure does the reporting of Vice Presidents of Marketing, Product Development, Finance, and Operations to Camille, the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, represent?

Back

functional

Front

A plant manager or a department head would be an example of which level of management?

Back

middle

Front

The number of employees that a manager can effectively supervise is their:

Back

span of control

Front

Which is an advantage of a wide span of control?

Back

costs less because businesses employ fewer managers