Management Concepts Quiz

The measure of how well (or how productively) an organization uses its resources to achieve a goal is known as:

• effectiveness.

• appropriateness.

• efficiency

• timeliness.

• appraisal

A manager who chooses the wrong goals for the organization and makes poor use of the organization's resources in pursuing these goals is said to have:

• low effectiveness/low efficiency.

• low effectiveness/medium efficiency.

• medium effectiveness/low efficiency.

• high effectiveness/high efficiency.

• medium effectiveness/medium efficiency.

The people within an organization who are responsible for supervising the organization's use of its resources are known as:

• managers.

• normalisers.

• precisionist

• strategists

In what order do managers typically perform managerial functions?

• Organizing. Planning, Controlling, Leading

• Organizing. Leading. Planning, Controlling

• Planning, Organizing, Leading, Controlling

• Planning, Organizing. Controlling, Leading

• Leading, Organizing, Planning. Controlling

When we say that the top managers of an organization are responsible for the performance of all the departments in an organization, this is another way of saying that they have:

• restructuring responsibilities.

• technical responsibilities

• global responsibilities.

• cross-departmental responsibilities.

• competitive responsibilities.

Which of the following includes the ability to understand, lead, and control the behavior of other workers?

• Conceptual skill

• Human skill

• Technical skill

• Negotiating skill

• Organizing skill

The ability of a worker in the accounting department to prepare the organization's balance sheet is an example of a(n):

• conceptual skill

• gran-line skill

• human skill

• technical skill.

• cognitive skill.

Which of the following is a part of the general environment?

• Distributors

• Customers

• Competitors

• Suppliers

• Technology

Which of the following is a part of the task environment?

• Demographic forces

• Legal forces

• Competitive forces

• Economic forces

• Technological forces

An organization's major customer puts pressure on the organization to reduce prices of its products. This is an example of the organization's:

• demographic environment.

• task environment.

• political environment

• legal environment.

• sociocultural environment.