BASICS MGMT FUNCTIONS COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE MGMT LEVELS & SKILLS MGMT Eleanor M. Savko BASICS MGMT FUNCTIONS COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE 10/30/2019 MGMT LEVELS & SKILLS MGMT HISTORY 10 pt 10 pt 10 pt 10 pt 10 pt 20 pt 20 pt 20 pt 20 pt 20 pt 30 pt 30 pt 30 pt 30 pt 30 pt 40 pt 40 pt 40 pt 40 pt 40 pt 50 pt 50 pt 50 pt 50 pt 50 pt
Term implying that the world has gotten smaller
What is globalization?
Discovering and harnessing an organization’s intellectual resources
What is knowledge management?
Business term for “working together”
What is collaboration
“Doing things right” vs. “doing the right things”
What are efficiency and effectiveness?
The excellence of your product
What is quality?
The process of working with people and resources to accomplish organizational goals
What is management?
Planning, Organizing, Leading, Controlling
What are the 4 functions of management?
Monetary equivalent of what you get from a product or service
What is value?
Function that describes efforts to stimulate high performance from the workers
What is leading?
Four functions of management
What are planning, organizing, leading, and controlling?
The introduction of new goods and services
What is innovation?
Giving customers what they want or need when they want it or need it.
What is a service?
Wal-Mart’s primary competitive advantage
What is cost competitiveness?
The effort to minimize the use of resources
What is sustainability?
6 success drivers of performance
What are cost competitiveness, quality, speed, innovation, service, and sustainability?
Managers located in the middle layer of the organization reporting to top executives
What are middle-level managers?
Supervisors, plant managers, foremen
What are examples of front-line managers?
3 levels of management
What are top-level, middle-level, and frontline?
Technical, conceptual & decision, and interpersonal & communications
What are 3 types of management skills?
Another name for EQ
What is Emotional Intelligence?
The father of scientific management searching for “one best way”
Who was Frederick W. Taylor?
Input – process - output
What is systems theory?
He invented bureaucracy
Who is Max Weber?
Why people perform better when they are being watched
What is the Hawthorne Effect?
Reduction in the average cost of a unit of production when total volume produced increases
What is “economies of scale”?