BUS106

1.  _________ is known as the father of scientific management.

________are the changes that have taken place as a result of economic booms or depressions.

3. What managers do in organizations includes _________

Leadership is an integral part of management and plays a vital role in _______operations.

Duncan ___________has indicated that econometric models are used in predicting the student enrollment at universities.

_______ is a process of choosing the right candidate from a pool of applicants.

7. A manager will find it difficult to enforce quality or engage in ________________

8.  A successful manager blends experience with ___________ in order to achieve a desired result.

________include mental dexterity, analytical ability, intuitive judgement, alertness and ability to concentrate.

10. Management function is identical in all ___________. whether it is a profit-making organization or a "non-profit-making organization.

One of the major factors that promote decentralization is task  ________

 ________ promotes delegation and supervision with predictable results.

The __________of leadership has suffered from lack of conclusiveness and over-simplifications.

14. Fayol, after more than _________ of practical business experience drew up his principles of management.

One of the major problems confronting the Nigerian Civil Service is the lack of clear ________.

16.  A _________ could be seen as a group of people assembled together to take action on an administrative task.

17. _________ are abstractions formed from generalizations.

 The Management Theory Jungle has classified the major schools of management into _________ broad areas.

19. A __________ is the selection of alternative course of action from available alternatives in order to achieve a given objective.

20.  ___________ is an imposition of order on chaos.

_______ seek to evaluate the applicant's ability to apply knowledge judiciously in solving a problem.

Effective _________helps managers to spend less time on specific technical activities

23. What determines whether a decision is to be made by an individual or group is the type of decision to be made, and the importance of the decision to the immediate attainment of __________ ?

24. Good goals must possess the following qualities except __________

A decision process is not completed until it is _____________.
implemented

26. Taylor's principles of management could be summarized as ___________

The principle of _________is sometimes violated where functional authority exists.

_______means answering for the use of your formal authority by someone else.

29.  A scholarly grouping of concepts and principles creates a ___________

30. The major organizational goals exclude _________

________ is that energizing force that induces or compels and maintains behaviour.

32. Gilbreth believed that there was one best way which was believed to be the way that required the ___________

_________is the last in Maslowa's hierarchy of needs.

 ______ is a personal power acquired by expertise in a field or area.

_______models are more complex in nature and involve interrelationships of many variables tied together in a quantitative model.

36. A good goal makes the organization while helping to exploit the opportunities to minimize the impact of the _________

37. _________ goal could be implicit and require explicit formulation before they could be realized.

 _______ is the determination of the job to which an accepted candidate is to be assigned and his assignment to that job.

________deals with the number of subordinates that an executive can manage effectively.

Goals can be differentiated between official and ________ goals.

_______ is to solicit necessary information from the prospective applicants to assess the applicant's suitability to the job.

________ used a mathematical equation to arrive at the conclusion that only a narrow span of management would make for efficient management.

43. _________ are best seen as fundamental or general truth on which other truths depend.

_____is based on the assumption that past activities are good indication of future activities.

 ________ leadership occurs when a person is appointed or elected as an authority figure.

 _________ techniques are the means or media by which management contacts prospective employees or provides necessary information.

______method is ideal for both employee training and management development.

 _________ conducted extensive studies in this area and developed a scale to identify different types of leaders.

________ is often referred to as the father of Scientific Management.

 ______converts company objectives into individual goals and as a result, it contributes to higher levels of job satisfaction.