Introduction Management Quiz

The primary goal is to help you prepare for and improve your own ______ in a managerial role.

• Life

• Competency

• Ideas

Managerial skills are applicable in most areas of your life.

• True

• False

Empirical evidence suggests that a ____-step learning model is most effective for helping you develop management skills

• Ten

• Two

• Five

• Three

The three main categories of essential management skills are ___, ___, and ___. (think of the blue circular graph on page 12)

• Personal

• Motivation

• Group

• Interpersonal

• Leader

In the last couple of decades, an abundance of evidence has been produced demonstrating that skillful management is the single most powerful determinant of _____.

• Being the best manager

• Overall Profit

• Profit loss

• Organizational success

The top 10 characteristics of effective managers are all____ skills.

Was wealth higher in companies demonstrating strong people management skills than in firms that had a lower emphasis on people management?

• No

• Yes

Good _____ was more important than all other factors taken together in predicting profitability

• People

• Profit Sharing

• Management

• Business

Management skills consist of actions that lead to ___ outcomes

Management skills are ____, _____, and _____.

• Behavioral

• Beneficial

• Controllable

• Developable

• Fun