POM Chapter 08 - The Manager as a Planner and Strategist

A(n) _____ is a cluster of decisions about what goals to pursue, what actions to take,
and how to use resources to achieve goals.

A(n) _____ broadly defines an organization's purpose, what it is seeking to achieve
from its activities, identifies what is unique or important about its products to its
employees and customers, and also distinguishes or differentiates the organization in
some ways from its competitors.

The first step in planning for an organization is:

According to Henry Fayol an effective plan should have four qualities, namely unity,
continuity, accuracy, and _____.

According to Henry Fayol, _____ means that managers need to make every attempt to
collect and use all available information in the organization's planning process

The managers of an organization develop a single, well-researched, and effective plan
to complete a set of tasks. Which of the following qualities, according to Henry Fayol,
does this plan have?

In large organizations the functional level of management is also known as the _____ of
management.

Top management’s decisions pertaining to the organization’s mission, overall strategy,
and structure constitutes an organization's _____.