Chapter 1 - 4 Flashcards

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determining the organizations’ goal or performance objectives, defining strategic actions that must be done to accomplish them, and developing coordination and integration activities.

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Planning

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Demand assigning task, setting aside funds, and bringing harmonious relations among the individuals and work groups or teams in the organization

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Organizing

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Indicates filling in the different job positions in the organization’s structure

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Staffing

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Influencing or motivating subordinates to do their best

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Leading/directing

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Correcting the performance of the individuals or work groups or teams

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Controlling

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Functions needed in order to accomplish the management process of coordinating and overseeing the work performance of individuals

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Management Functions

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Who is the father of scientific management

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Frederick W. Taylor

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Engaged in management activities such as supervising, sustaining, upholding, and assuring responsibilities for the work

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Manager

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The various roles played by managers

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Managerial roles

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General or strategic managers

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Top level managers

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What Managerial levels that have authority over all other human ?

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Top level manager

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Their traditional role is to act as go-between higher and lower levels of the organization

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Middle level managers

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Give me an example of lower level managers

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Frontline

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Responsible for dealing with operating personnel. It requires high level of interpersonal and technical skills

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Lower level managers

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They are the bridge between management and nonmanagement employees

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Frontline or lower level managers

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Possesses good leadership qualities or a combination of good moral character, strong professional will

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Leader

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Capable of maintaining unity of action in the organization

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Liasion

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Who has nominal leadership but without real power

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Figurehead

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Speaks in the name and behalf of another

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Spokesperson

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Give me the three types of interpersonal

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•leader
•liaison
•figurehead

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Give me the three types of informational

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•spokesperson
•monitor
•disseminator

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Give me the four types of decisional or decision-making

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•disturbance handler
•resource allocator
•negotiator
•entrepreneur

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Think of possible solutions to complex problems

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Conceptual skills

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Skills that enable manager in all level to relate well with people. Communicating, leading, inspiring, and motivating them

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Human skills

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Dealing with the people, both in the organization's internal and external environment
Human skills
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Perform their task with proficiency with the user their expertise
Technical skills
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Seeking for and sorting through data about the environment
Environment scanning
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Refers to the factor/element outside the organization
External business environment
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Refers to the factors/elements within the organization
Internal business environment
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A period above normal general proce increases
Inflation
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Total amount that a borrower must pay annually to the lender
Interest rates
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The consumer change in preference of good and services offered
Changing option
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Consumer's changing ways of spending their money on goods and services
People's spending habits
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Costumers' changing values and preferences
Sociocultural situations
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Refers to national or local laws, international laws, and rules and regulations that influence organizational management
Politico-legal situation
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Companies involve the use of varied types of electronic gadgets
Technological situations
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Increasing number of global competitors and markets
World and Ecological situations
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Affected by the activities of the organization
Stakeholders
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Patronize the organization's products and services
Costumers
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They are the one who ensure the organization's continous flow of needed and reasonably priced input or materials
Supplier
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A special-interest groups that try to exert influence on the organization's decisions or actions
Pressure groups
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Provide the company with the financial support it needs
Investors or owners
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Those who work for another or for an employer in exchange of salaries or wages
Employees
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Adapting to environmental uncertainties must start with developing a ____________
Competitive mindset
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An individual's ability to favorably receive and adjust to an unfamiliar way of doing things
Cultural intelligence
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Refers to cultures where in people tend to do one thing at a time.
Monochronic cultures
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More flexible as regards time
Polychronic cultures
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Society accepts or rejects the unequal distribution of power among people in organization and the institution of society
Power distance
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Total domestic and foreign output claimed by the residents of a country
Gross national product (GNP)
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Total final output of goods and services produced by the country's economy
Gross domestic product (GDP)
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Rate at which central banks will exchange the country's currency for another
Currency exchange product
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Society is uncomfortable with risk, change,and situational uncertainty
Uncertainty avoidance
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Society emphasizes individual accomplishments versus collective accomplishments
Individualism - collectivisim
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Society values assertiveness and feelings of material success versus concern for relationships
Masculinity - femininity
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Society emphasizes short-term thinking versus greater concern for the future or long - term thinking
Time orientation
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Ensures that the present needs of a particular generation are fully met without endangering the ability of future generation to also fully meet their own needs
Sustainable economic
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Process which includes not only economic growth or the increase in the given amount of goods and services produced by the country's economy
Economic develop
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The distinct stages involved In the total process of economic development in a particular country
Economic development phases
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Increase in the given amount of goods and services produced byvthe economy's earning
Economic growth
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Ensure that the present needs of a particular generation are fully met without endangering the ability of future generation to also fully meet their own need
Sustainable economics development
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A collection of people working together to achieve a common purpose
Organization
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People working together to achieve the organization mission,vision, goals, and objectives
Business organization
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Set of beliefs and values shared by organization members
Organizational culture
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Refers to business organizations with few department, centralized authority with a wide span of control, and with few formal rules and regulations
Simple business organization
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Business organization that group together those with similar or related specialized duties
Functional business organizations
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Business organization made up of separate business units that are semi-autonomous or semi-independent
Divisional business organization
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Maintaining their organizational stability through income generation and profit-making activities
Profit business organization
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Providing service to clients without expecting monetary gains or financial benefits for their endeavors
Nonprofit organization
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These are formed to meet today's changing work environment
Open/flexible business organizations
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A process that involves the setting of the organization's goals, establishing strategies for accomplishing those goals
Planning
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The identification of target or desired ends that management wants to reach
Goal-Setting
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A mental image of shat the organization will be in the future
Vision
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Basic purpose of an organization and range of their operations
Mission
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Steps needed in order to attain desired end
Objectives
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Completeness of planning coverage.
Comprehensiveness
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Very detailed, clearly defined plans where in objective are Cleary stated and could easily be understood
Specificity
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Refers to the number of times or instances a plan may used
Frequency
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How many use of plan in strategical plans?
Single use
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How many used plan in operational plan?
Several times
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Establish the organization's overall goals and apply to the entire firm
Strategic plans
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Comprehensive plan for the entire organization covering time frame,specific purpose, frequency of used and others
Organizational plan
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Plans that apply to a particular units area only
Operational plan
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Plans that go beyond three years
Long-term plans
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Plans that cover one year or less
Short-term plans
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Plans that are flexible or give general guidelines ony
Directional plans
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Plans that are Cleary stated and which have no room for interpretation
Specific plans
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Plans used or stated once only as this applies to the entire organization
Single-use plans
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Plans that are ongoing
Standing plans
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Top level planning which involves making decisions about the organization's long-term goal
Strategic planning
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Middle level management planning which refers to produces and transformation of strategic plan with specific goals
Tactical planning
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Is lower level Management planning which involves routine tasks repeatedly done by the firm's lower level units
Operational planning
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Represent crossing a threshold and actuates or initiates a mechanism or reaction that may lead to a radically different state of affairs
Trigger point
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Attempt to predict what may happen in the future
Forecasting
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Planning techniques that involves comparison of company's practices/technologies with those of other companies
Benchmarking
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Forecast used may either be ____________ or _______________
Quantitative or qualitative
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Must be prepared by managers, ready for implementation when things do not turn out as they should be
Contingency plans
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States of affairs must be identified and alternative plan must be prepared in order to meet the changes or challenges in the future
Scenario planning
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People who will be affected by the plan and those who will be asked to implement them in all planning steps
Participatory planning
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Is a process which begins with problem identification and ends with the evaluation of implemented solution
Decision-making
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A decision that is repetitive and can be handled using a routine approach. Such repetitive decision applies to resolving structured problems which are straightforward, familiar, and easily defined
Structured or programmed decision
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Applied to the resolution of problems that are new or unusual, and for which information is incomplete
Unstructured or nonprogrammed decisions
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Depends on how much time has been developed to making decisions
Timeline
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Depends upon the value and belief system of the decision maker
Value and belief of decision-makers
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Decision taken have to be in the boundary or within the limits of these policies
Policies of organization
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These are situation in which a manager can make precise decisions because the result of all alternatives are known
Certainty conditions
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A more common condition in deciding problems
Risk or uncertainty conditions
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involves assigning tasks. grouping tasks into departments, delegating authority and allocating resources across the organization
Organizing
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involves assigning different tasks to different people in the organization's different work units.
Division of labor
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another process in the organization's internal environment which involves the collaboration and coordination of its different work units or work divisions.
Integration or integration of work unit
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a system made up of tasks to be accomplished, work movements from one work level to another work levels in the system
Organization structure
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process in which different individuals and units perform different task. It is also the reference of dividing the labor based on the skills performed by their employees.
Specialization
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clears issues related to authority rights, responsibilities, and reporting relationships.
Vertical structure
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It refers to the departmentalization of an organization into smaller work units as tasks become increasingly varied and numerous.
Horizontal structure
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it is a collection of independent, usually single function organizations/companies that work together in order to produce a product or service.
Network structure
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Deal directly with the firm's primary goods and services
Line departments
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Support the activities of the line departments
Staff departments
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Subdivisions are formed based on specialized activities
Functional approach
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Department are formed based on management of their product,costumers, or geographic areas covered
Divisional approach
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A hybrid form of departmentalization where managers and staff personnel reports to the superior
Matrix approach
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The manners in which a management achieves the right combination of integration of the organization's operation
Organizational design
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Pertain to the usual or old - fashioned ways
Traditonal theories
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Refers to contemporary or new design theories
Modern theories
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This organizational design has a centralized authority figure and has very little formalization of work
Simple
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This organizational design groups together similar or related specialties
Functional
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This organizational design is made up of separate business division or units
Divisional
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Made up of work groups or teams
Team design
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Refers to an organization design where specialists from different work on projects that are supervised by a project manager
Matrix-project design
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This design result in a double chain of command where in workers have two managers
Matrix-project design
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An organizational design where employees continuously work on a project
Project design
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There are no hierarchical levels that separates employees, no departmentalization, and no boundaries that separate the organization from costumers, suppliers, and other stakeholders
Boundary-less design
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Refers to assigning in a new or additional Task to a subordinates
Delegation
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The right to act legally or officially
Authority
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The sates of being answerable legally and morally for the discharge of duty
Responsibility
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Us to be liable to be called to explain
Accountability
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Refers to organizations formed by the company owner or manager to help the firm accomplish it's goal
Formal organizations
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Refers to organizations that exist because of friendship or common interests
Informal organizations
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may be defined to mean either a group of individuals and factors and their relationships or to the process itself.
Organization
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the activity or process which coordinates, directs and controls the activities of all other parts.
Management
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Implemented to help increase organizational productivity and service quality.
Management theory
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asserts the managers make decisions based on the situation at hand rather than a " one size fits all" method.
Contingency theory
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manager who understand and recognize hoe different system affect a worker and hoe a worker affects the systems around them.
System theory
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this theory is made up of a variety of parts that work together to achieve a goal.
System theory
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This theory recognizes that change is inevitable and rarely controlled.
Chaos theories
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change in constant.
Chaos theories
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the management theory an individuals chooses to utilize is strongly influenced by beliefs about worker attitudes.
Theory X and Y