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Leadership Vocabs
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Undergraduate 1
03/15/2011

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Conceptual Skills
Definition
The congnitive ability to see the organization as a whole and the relationships among its parts.
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Controlling
Definition
The management funtion concered with monitoring employees' activities, keeoing the organization on track toward its goals, and making corrections as needed
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Effectiveness
Definition
The degree to which the organiztion achieves a stated goals.
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Efficiency
Definition
The use of minimal resource - raw materials, money, and people - to produce a desired volume of output.
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First-line manager
Definition
A manager who is at the or second management level and is directly responsible for the production of goods and services.
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Functional Manager
Definition
A manager who is responsible for several deparments that perform different funtions.
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General Manager
Definition
A manager who is responsible for several deparments that perform different funtions.
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Human Skill
Definition
The ability to work with and through other people and to work effectively as a group member.
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Leading
Definition
The management function that involves the use of influence to motivate employees to achieve the organization's goals.
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Management
Definition
The attainment of organizational goals in an effetive and efficient meanner through planning, organizing, leading, and controlling organizational resources.
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Middle Manager
Definition
A manager who works at the middle level of the organization and is responsible for major deparments.
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Organization
Definition
A social entity that is gial directed and deliberatly structured.
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Organizing
Definition
The management funtion concerned with assigning tasks, grouping tasks into departments and allocating resources to departments.
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Performance
Definition
The organization's ability to attain its goals by using resources in a efficent and effective manner.
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Planning
Definition
The management function concerned with defining for future organizational performance and deciding on the tasks and resources needed to attain them.
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Project Manager
Definition
A manager is responsible for a temporary work project that involves the participation of other people from various funtions and levels of the organization.
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Role
Definition
A set of expectations for one's behavior
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Technical Skill
Definition
The understanding of and proficiency in the performance of specific tasks.
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Top Manager
Definition
A manager who is at the top of the organizational hierarchy and is responsible for the entire organization.
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Leadership
Definition
An influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real chances and outcomes that reflect their shared purposes.
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Paradigm
Definition
A shared mind-set that represents a fundamental way of thinking about perceiving, and understanding the world.
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Vision
Definition
A picture of an ambitious, desirable future for the organization or team.
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Positive Power
Definition
A written, spoken or implied contract where people accept eiter a superior or subordinate role and see the use of coercive as well as non-coercive behavior as an acceptable way to acieve desired results.
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Learning Leader
Definition
Open to learning, change and encourage the growth and development of others.
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