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WorksheetsBusiness Management I Unit 1 2024
Total questions: 47
Worksheet time: 24mins
Department Manager, Small Business Manager, and Regional Manager are positions in:
Business Analytics.
General Management.
Operations Management.
Human Resources Management.
Process Improvement Specialists and Call Center Supervisors would be considered which type of management positions?
General
Operations
Supply Chain
Human Resources
Process Improvement Specialist and Call Center Supervisor are positions within:
Business Analytics.
Operations Management.
Supply Chain Management.
Human Resources Management.
Which employee has a human resources management career?
Lydia is in charge of communicating with her business's suppliers.
Madison supervises the storing and handling of her company's products.
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 business management decision-making
Which job is considered an office management career?
Sanitation Worker
Import/Export Analyst
Chief Operations Officer
Administrative Assistant
Which person has a general manager career?
Bill is a labor relations manager.
Sandy manages a small business.
Shirley specializes in sustainable energy.
Antonio is his company's quality manager.
Which type of business management and administration career is all about people?
Business Analytics
Operations Management
Supply Chain Management
Human Resources Management
Benefits Administrator, Labor Relations Manager, and Compensation Analyst are positions within:
Business Analytics
Operations Management
Supply Chain Management
Human Resources Management
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?
Controlling
Directing
Organizing
Planning
Which level of management is responsible for purchasing the proper material resources for workers to use in doing their jobs?
First-Line
Middle
Supervisory
Top-Level
The number of levels of management that a business needs usually depends on the:
Size of the Business.
Goals of the Company.
Location of the Business's Facility.
Ages of the company's employees.
Jackson plans to increase his business's sales by 15% in eight months. To reach this goal, he increased the business's advertising budget. Which function of management does this represent?
Controlling
Directing
Organizing
Planning
The purpose of management in a business is to:
prepare the books.
design Advertising.
Compile Financial Data.
Achieve the Objectives.
Tyrone evaluates the production output of his department by checking it against the production goals for that time period. Which management function is Tyrone performing?
Controlling
Directing
Organizing
Planning
A plant manager or a department head would be an example of which level of management?
Middle
Operating
Supervisory
Top
What is the most important resource to a business?
Employees
Equipment
Sales Revenue
Office Supplies
Middle-level administrators work to take broad goals and make them more specific to their unit(s). What are these goals called?
Tactical plans
Strategic plans
Operational plans
Management plans
Goals established by a company should be:
Linked to punishments.
Specific and measurable.
Difficult and generally unattainable.
Which is the first step of effective managerial planning?
Establish criteria to evaluate strategies.
Evaluate the quality of various processes.
Develop procedures for activity implementation.
Use a systematic approach to establish objectives.
What type of plan should a business implement when the original plan fails to produce the desired results?
Communications
Contingency
Production
Strategic
Which question should effective managerial planning answer?
"Who will do the work?"
"What do we want to do?"
"Did we accomplish our goals?"
"How will we monitor the workforce?"
What are characteristics of tactical planning?
Long-term and vague
Long-term and specific
Short-range-vague
Short-range and specific
An important aspect of the organizing function of management involves:
promoting employees.
motivating team members.
establishing levels of authority.
conducting performance reviews.
The primary purpose of developing organizational goals is to:
establish loyalty.
assign authority.
provide direction.
ensure profitability.
Within the next three years, the PRM Company wants to set up an electronic data interchange with all of its suppliers. What type of organizational goal is PRM establishing?
contingency
financial
symmetrical
technology
One way to determine whether an employee is helping a business achieve its organizational goals is by:
developing an incentive program
analyzing external economic factors
evaluating the employee's performance
providing the employees with extensive training
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?
evaluating results
allocating resources
delegating authority
grouping tasks into structures
What management function is responsible for coordinating resources in ways that maximize efficiency?
controlling
directing
organizing
staffing
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:
flexible
incongruent
interdependent
symmetrical
The Vice Presidents of Marketing, Product Development, Finance, and Operations all report to Camille, the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. They each have their own teams made up of several employees. Which organizational structure does this represent?
Divisional
Functional
Matrix
Specialized
Coordinating business activities is an important aspect of the organizing function of management because it:
defines the company’s mission statement.
enables the business to prepare precise forecasts.
establishes clear relationships between the company’s resources.
ensures that the employees understand all the business’s processes.
Computers, Inc., manufactures and sells its computer hardware in four countries. It employs over 5,000 people worldwide. Which organizational structure makes the most sense for Computers, Inc.?
Divisional
Functional
Matrix
Specialized
Which type of organizational design has an emphasis on teamwork?
Lateral relations
Matrix structure
Divisional structure
Functional structure
Which is an advantage of a wide span of control?
requires fewer managerial skills
gives managers more authority over subordinates
costs less because businesses employ fewer managers
provides better communication between managers and their employees
Three factors that affect the organizational structure of a business include interpersonal relationships, tasks, and:
attrition
authority
initiative
injunction
The number of employees that a manager can effectively supervise is their:
delegation
line authority
accountability
span of control
The purpose of an organizational design for a business is to:
create clear lines of authority.
design the interior offices for all employees.
make sure employees report to work on time.
reduce the number of rules and regulations for each department.
Which organizational design groups people together based on specialty?
Lateral relations
Matrix structure
Divisional structure
Functional structure
Which is an element of any project?
inventor
outcome
regulations
technology
Every project creates a/an:
company
deliverable
new product
advertising plan
One of the most important aspects of project management involves:
setting goals.
buying supplies.
training employees.
identifying mistakes.
What document is drafted in the planning stage of project management?
project charter
lessons learned
statement of work
work breakdown structure
What project management stage involves determining when project tasks should be performed?
evaluating
monitoring
processing
scheduling
What are rules and regulations for keeping a project on track?
design laws
risk inhibitors
execution standards
governance mechanisms
A project is officially authorized to begin by the:
project charter.
initiation papers.
statement of work.
registration documents.
What document is drafted in the initiation stage of project management?
risk analysis
lessons learned
statement of work
work breakdown structure
What project management stage involves determining whether a project is feasible?
Closing
Evaluating
Initiation
Processing
