Business Management - Trade Union University

Someone with a clear sense of the future and the actions needed to get there is considered a _____ leader.

• 1. task-oriented

• 1. transactional

• 1. people-oriented

• 1. visionary

A manager who says "Because I am the boss, you must do what I ask" is relying on _____power

• reward

• legitimate

• expert

• referent

When a team leader clarifies desired work targets and deadlines for members of a work team, he or she is fulfilling the management function of  _______

• planning

• delegating

• controlling

• supervising

The research of Mintzberg and others concludes that managers:

• work at a leisurely pace

• have blocks of private time for planning

• are never free from the pressures of performance responsibility

• have the advantages of flexible work hours

If the term offshoring describes outsourcing of work and jobs to foreign locations, what is it called when firms like Caterpillar move jobs back into the United States from foreign locations?

• protectionism

• disrupting

• reshoring

• upscaling

One of the ways that corporations might better take into account their responsibility for being good environmental citizens is to redefine the notion of profit to: Profit = Revenue - Cost of Goods Sold - _____

• operating expenses

• dividends

• costs to society

• loan interest

Management by exception means: 

• managing only when necessary

• focusing attention where the need for action is greatest

• the same thing as concurrent control

• the same thing as concurrent control

Projects are unique one-time events that:

• have unclear objectives

• must be completed by a specific time line

• have unlimited budgets

• are largely self-managing

The functional chimneys problem occurs when people in different functions ______

• fail to communicate with one another

• try to help each other work with customers

• spend too much time coordinating decisions

• focus on products rather than functions

Which type of organization design best fits an uncertain and changing environment?

• mechanistic

• bureaucratic

• organic

• traditional