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10/23/2012

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Manager
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A person who supports and is responsible for the works of other
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First line manager
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Supervise people who perform nonmanagerial duties
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Middle manager
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oversee the work of large departments or divisions
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Top manager
Definition
Guide the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts
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Board of directors
Definition
Are elected by stockholders to represent their ownership interests
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Governance
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Is oversight of top management by a board of directors or board of trustees
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Accountability
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Is the requirement to show performance results to a supervisor
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Effective manager
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Successfully helps others achieve high performance and satisfaction in their work
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Upside down pyramid
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Views puts customer at the top of the organization being served by workers who are supported by the managers below them
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Management process
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I planning, organizing, leading, and control the use of resource to accomplish performance goals.
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Planning
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The process of settle objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
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Organizing
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The process of assign takes allocating resources and coordinating work activities
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Leading
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Process of abounding enthusiasm and inspiring efforts to achieve goals
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Controlling
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Process of measuring performance and taking action to ensure desired results
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Agenda setting
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Identifies important action priorities
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Networking
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involves building and maintains positive relationship with other people
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Social capital
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the capacity to attract support and help from others in order to get things done
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Technical skills
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the ability to use I expertise to perform a task with proficiency
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Emotional intelligence
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Is the ability to manage ourselves and our relationships effectively
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Conceptual skill
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Is the ability to think analytically and solve complex problems
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Ethics
Definition
Set moral standards of what is good and right behavior in organization and in our personal lives
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Corporate governance
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Oversight of a company's management by a board of directors
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Workforce diversity
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Describes different among workers in gender, race, age, ethnicity, etc
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Glass ceiling effect
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Is a invisible barrier limiting career advancement of women and minorities
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Prejudice
Definition
Display of negative, irrational attitude toward women or minorities
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Discrimination
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Actively denies women and minorities the full benefits of organizational members
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Scientific management
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Emphasize careful selections and raising of workers and supervisory support
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Motion study
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Is the science of reducing a job or task to its basic physically motions
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Bureaucracy
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Is a rational and efficient form of organization drowns on logic, order, and legitimate authority
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Hawthorne effect
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Is the tendency of persons singled out for special attention to perform as expected
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Need
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Physiological or psychology deficiency that is person wants to satisfy
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Maslow progression principle
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I that a need at any level becomes activated only after the next lower level need is satisfied
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Mallows deficit principle
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People act to satisfy needs for which a satisfaction deficit exist
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Theory x
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Assumes that people dislike work, lack ambitions, are irresponsible and prefer to be led
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Theory y
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Assumes that people are wiling to work, accepts responsibility, are creative and self directed
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Self fulfilling prophecy
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Occurs when a person acts in ways that coniferous another's expectation
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Operations management
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I e study of how organization produce goods and service
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Open system
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Transforms resources inputs form that environment into products outputs
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Subsystem
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Is a smaller component of a larger component
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Contingency thinking
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Tries to match management practice with situational demands
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Total quality management
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Is mange with an organization wide commitment to continuous improvement, product quality, and customer needs
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Continuous improvement
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Involves always searching for new ways to improve work quality and performance
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High performance organization
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Consistently achieves excellence while creating a high quality work environment
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Evidence based management
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Involves making decisions based on hard facts about what really works
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Ethics
Definition
Set standards of good or bad, or right or wrong, in our conducts
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Ethical behaviors
Definition
If rig or good in the context of a governing moral code
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Values
Definition
Are board beliefs about what is appropriate behaviors
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Terminal values
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Are preferences about desired end states
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Instrumental values
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Ae preference regarding the means to desired ends
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Utilitarian view
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Ethical behavior delivers the greatest good to the most people
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Individualism view
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Ethical behavior advances long term self interests
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Justice view
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Ethical behavior treats people impartially and fairly
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Procedural justice
Definition
Focuses on the fair application of policies and rules
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Distributive justice
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Focuses on treating people the same regardless of personal characteristics
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Commutative justice
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Focuses on the fairness of exchanges or transaction
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Interaction justice
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Degree to which others are treated with dignity and respect
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Moral right view
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Ethical behavior respects and protects fundamental rights
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Cultural relativism
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Suggests there is no riot way to behave; cultural context determine ethical behaviors
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Moral absolutism
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Suggests ethical standards apply universally across all cultures
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Ethical imperialism
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Is an attempt to impose one's ethical standards on other cultures
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Objective
Definition
specific results that one wishes to accomplish
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stretch goals
Definition
performance targets we have to work extra hard/stretch to reach
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plan
Definition
statement of intended means for accomplishing objectives
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hierarchy of objective
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lower level objective help accomplish higher level ones
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short range plans
Definition
strategies for 1 year or less
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long range plans
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strategies for 3 years or more
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strategic plan
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identifying long term direction for organization
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vision
Definition
purpose of organization & expers what it hopes to be in the future
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tactical/ operational plan
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plans that set ways for strategic plans
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functional plans
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identifies how different parts of an enterprise will contribute to accomplishing strategic plans
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policy
Definition
communicated a broad guildline for decision/actions
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procedure
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rules precisely describes action to take in specific situation
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budget
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plan that commits resource to projects or activities
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zero base budget
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budget allocates resource as if each budget was brand new
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complacency trap
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being lluled into inaction by current successes or failures
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forecasting
Definition
attempting to predict the future
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participatory planning
Definition
planning that includes the person who will be affected by the plan and/or who will be asked to implement the plan
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contingency planning
Definition
identify alternatives course of action to take when things go wrong
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scenario planning
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identify alternative future scenarios and makes plan to deal with each
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benchmarking
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use external comparison to gain insights for planning
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best practices
Definition
methods that leads to superior performance.
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Human Skill
Definition
the ability to work well in cooperation with other people
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Ethical Dilemma
Definition
a situation that, although offering potential benefit or gain, is also unethical.
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Ethics training
Definition
seeks to help people understand the ethical aspects of decision making and to incorporate high ethical standards into their daily behavior.
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Spotlight questions
Definition
highlight the risks from public disclosure of one's actions.
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Whistle blowers
Definition
expose misconduct of organizations and their members
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immoral manager
Definition
managers that chooses to behave unethically
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amoral manager
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managers whofail to consider ethics in his action
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moral manager
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managers who makes ethical behaviors a personal goal
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code of ethic
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formal statement of values and ethical standards
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Stakeholders
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are people and institutions most directly affected by an organization's performance.
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corporate social responsibility
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is the obligation of an organization to serve its own interests and those of its stakeholders.
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triple bottom line
Definition
organizational performance includes financial, social, and environmental criteria.
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3 Ps of organizational performance
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profit, people, and planet.
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classical view of corporate social responsibility
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business should focus on the pursuit of profits.
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socioeconomic view of corporate social responsibility
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business should focus on contributions to society, not just making profits.
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social responsibility audit
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measures and reports on an organization's performance in various areas of corporate social responsibility.
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Sustainability
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a goal that addresses the rights of present and future generations as co-stakeholders of present day natural resources.
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Problem Solving
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involves identifying and taking action to resolve problems.
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knowledge workers
Definition
workers who add value to organizations through their intellectual capabilities.
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information competency
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the ability to gather and use information to solve problems.
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performance threat
Definition
a situation where something is wrong or likely to be wrong.
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performance opportunity
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a situation that offers the possibility of a better future if the right steps are taken.
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problem avoider
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managers who try to get away from issue
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problem solvers
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managers who tries to solve the issue that comes their way
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problem seekers
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managers who goes look for problem to solve
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decision
Definition
a choice among possible alternative courses of action.
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programmed decision
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decisions that applies a solution from past experience to a routine problem.
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non programmed decision
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decisions that applies a specific solution that has been crafted to address a unique problem.
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Intuitive thinking
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approaches problems in a flexible and spontaneous fashion.
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cognitive style
Definition
the way an individual deals with information while making decisions.
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certain environment
Definition
offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.
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risk environment
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environment lacks complete information but offers probabilities of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
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uncertain environment
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lacks so much information that it is difficult to assign probabilities to the likely outcomes of alternatives.
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Step 1 of Decision-Making Process
Definition
Defining problem to make a decision for
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Step 2 of Decision-Making Process
Definition
generate and evaluate alternative course of action and use the cost-benefit analysis
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Step 3 of Decision-Making Process
Definition
decide on a preferred course of action. (classical decision model, optimizing decision, beehavioral decision model,satificing decision.
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Step 4 of Decision-Making Process
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implement the decision (lack of participation error)
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Step 5 of Decision-Making Process
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evaluate the result of the decision
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Group decision is good
Definition
-more info
-more alternatives
-increase understanding
-greater commitment
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Group decision is bad
Definition
-conformity with social pressure
-domination by a few members
-Time Delay
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Availability Heuristic
Definition
uses readily available information to assess a current situation.
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representativeness heuristic
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assesses the likelihood of an occurrence using a stereotyped set of similar events.
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anchoring and adjustment heuristic
Definition
adjusts a previously existing value or starting point to make a decision.
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Framing Error
Definition
solving a problem in the context perceived.
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Confirmation Error
Definition
when we attend only to information that confirms a decision already made.
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Escalating Commitment
Definition
the continuation of a course of action even though it is not working.
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Crisis
Definition
an unexpected problem that can lead to disaster if not resolved quickly and appropriately.
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Step 1 of Planning
Definition
Define objective/goals
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Step 2 of Planning
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Determine where you stand as for your objective
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Step 3 of Planning
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Develop premises regarding future conditions
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Step 4 of Planning
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Make the plan
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Step 5 of Planning
Definition
implement and evaluate the result
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Feedfoward control
Definition
ensures clear directions and needed resources before the work begins.
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concurrent control
Definition
controls that focuses on what happens during the work process.
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feedback control
Definition
controls that takes place after completing an action.
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internal control/self control
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occurs as people exercise self-discipline in fulfilling job expectations.
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external control
Definition
occurs through direct supervision or administrative systems.
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bureaucratic control
Definition
influences behavior through authority, policies, procedures, job descriptions, budgets, and day-to-day supervision.
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clan control
Definition
influences behavior through social norms and peer expectations.
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market control
Definition
essentially the influence of market competition on the behavior of organizations and their members.
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after-action review
Definition
a structured review of lessons learned and results accomplished through a completed project, task force assignment, or special operation.
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output standard
Definition
measures performance results in terms of quantity, quality, cost, or time.
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input standard
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measures work efforts that go into a performance task.
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Step 1 of the Control process
Definition
beginning with objective and standards
then compares results with objective and standards
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Step 2 of the Control process
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compares results with objective and standards
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Step 3 of the Control process
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take corrective action as needed
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Managing by objectives
Definition
a process of joint objective setting between a superior and a subordinate.
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Improvement objectives
Definition
document intentions to improve performance in a specific way.
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Personal development objectives
Definition
document intentions to accomplish personal growth, such as expanded job knowledge or skills.
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Balance Scorecard
Definition
measures performance on financial, customer service, internal process, and innovation and learning goals.
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4 Functions of Management Process
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