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The planning, organizing, leading, and controlling of resources in order to achieve organizational goals both effectively and efficiently is known as management. |
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When managers select appropriate goals for their organization and then the organization achieves these goals, we say that the organization is efficient. |
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Resources are assets such as people, machinery, and information. |
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The process that managers use to select the goals for the organization is known as organizing. |
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An outcome of the controlling function should be the ability to measure the organization's performance accurately. |
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Managers at all levels and in all departments of for-profit, but not non-profit, organizations are responsible for performing all four managerial functions. |
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Organizational structure determines how an organization's resources can best be used to create goods and services. |
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The outcome of leadership is a high level of motivation and commitment among organizational members. |
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In an organization, first-line managers typically report to top managers. |
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The importance of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling will change depending on the level of management that a manager occupies. |
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A major responsibility of top managers is to establish organizational goals. |
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A manager sends a memo to all members of her department explaining a new company policy. This manager is acting in the role of resource allocator. |
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The challenges of managing within government departments can be quite different from the challenge of managing in publicly held organizations |
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Some 30% of Canadian employees are unionized which presents additional challenges to management. |
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Organizations decrease their efficiency when they reduce the amount of resources they use to produce goods and services. |
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