_____ is the management process of coordinating and allocating a firm’s resources in order to carry out its plans.
Question 12
12.
The lowest level of management, which usually carries out the daily operations, is called _____ management.
Arranging a firm's human and material resources to carry out plans is called organizing.
True
False
Dividing up the tasks (division of labor) is an important part of organizing.
True
False
_____ is the process of arranging the structures and relationships of human and material resources to carry out an organization's plans.
Leadership
Organizing
Communicating
Planning
Controlling
Spring Airlines is a start-up business in China. It uses the management function of ____ to arrange that the three airplanes it operates are where they are supposed to be when they are supposed to be and have the appropriate number of operating personnel.
organizing
controlling
communicating
planning
leadership
Most firms have three distinguishable levels of management. They are:
A. low, middle, and chief
B. functional, middle, and staff
C. supervisory, middle, and top
D. operational, supervisory, and top
E. functional, operational, and strategic
Middle managers usually:
A. act as representatives to other firms
B. set overall goals and objectives
C. manage the employees on the assembly line
D. carry out plans and policies of top management
E. act as figureheads for the company
A relatively small group of managers at the head of an organization that establishes overall strategy and long-range goals is called _____ management.
functional
supervisory
top
middle
operational
_____ managers are the managers concerned with implementing the plans and policies of top managers and supervising lower-level managers.
Functional
Middle
Coordinating
Supervisory
Operational
Plant manager Peter Kwillen receives the master budget from divisional headquarters and breaks it down for the three shift managers. He coordinates with other plant managers and manages lower-level managers. Kwillen is a(n) _____ manager.
functional
coordination
supervisory
middle
operational
Pele Arnaz is a plant foreman for a generator manufacturer. He spends his day carrying out operational plans for the ongoing daily activities of the plant. Arnaz is a _____ manager.