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What are the four classical functions of management?
Planning, Organizing, Leading and Controlling
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What is communication?
This is the process of transmitting information from one person or place to another.
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What is planning?
This encourages people to work harder for extended periods.
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What are the general environment and the specific environment?
These are the two types of external organizational environments.
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What is WHY?
In Simon Sinek's Golden Circle, THIS word is in the middle of the bullseye.
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What are first-line managers?
These managers supervise the performance of non-managerial employees and are directly responsible for producing the company’s products or services.
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What is 80%?
In a percentage (%), managers spend this amount of their time each day communicating with others?
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What is a S.M.A.R.T. goal?
Goals that are Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Timely comprise this kind of goal.
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What is a dynamic environment?
A video game manufacturer is a type of company most likely to be facing this type of environment.
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What is efficiency?
A company achieves THIS when its gets work done with a minimum of effort, expense, or waste.
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Who is Frederick Taylor?
He created the principles of scientific management
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What is closure?
What is the tendency humans have when we fill in the missing pieces of a sentence such as “1, 3, 5, __, 9”.
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What is a corporate strategy?
This overall organizational strategy addresses the question “What business or businesses are we in or should we be in?”
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What is the economy?
Technological, socio-cultural and political/legal components are all part of the general environment. This is the fourth component of the general environment. Better check your interest rate!
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What is organizational culture?
This is the set of key values, beliefs, and attitudes shared by members of an organization.
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What is a top manager?
A COO and Vice President are examples of what type of manager?
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What is attention?
This is the term for the process of noticing or becoming aware of particular stimuli, in the perception process.
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What is a vision?
A company's mission statement directly flows from this type of corporate statement.
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What are competitors?
Companies in the same industry, such as General Motors, Toyota, Honda and Nissan, sell similar products to customers. In the specific environment, these companies are called THIS.
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What is the 6-3-5 Brainwriting Technique?
To brainstorm ideas for how to improve the student experience at the Algonquin Perth campus, THIS group decision-making technique was used.
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What are interpersonal roles, informational roles and decision roles?
Henry Mintzberg said that managers fulfill these three main roles when performing their jobs.
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What is Active Listening?
Listening is important for managerial and business success. To improve your listening, try putting the speaker at ease, maintaining eye contact and show you are listening attentively by nodding and doing THIS type of listening.
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What is 30 days-6 months?
Lower-level managers create and implement operational plans which direct the behaviour, efforts and priorities of employees for this period of time.
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What is environmental scanning?
A company does THIS when searching the environment for important events or issues that might affect its organization.
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What is Fulford Preparatory College?
We met Director of Admissions, Grant Leach, during our in-class interview on Feb. 2. THIS secondary school in Merrickville employs Grant.
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