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18/19 final
Robbins & Coulter 11th Edition
Question | Answer |
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Controlling | the process of monitoring, comparing, and correcting work performance |
Control Process | a three-step process of measuring actual performance, comparing actual performance against a standard,and taking managerial action to correct deviations or inadequate standards |
Range of Variation | the acceptable parameters of variance between actual performance and the standard |
Performance | the end result of an activity |
Organizational Performance | the accumulated results of all the organization's work activities |
Productivity | the amount of goods or services produced divided by the inputs needed to generate that output |
Organizational Effectiveness | a measure of how appropriate organizational goals are and how well those goals are being met |
Feedforward Control | control that takes place before a work activity is done |
Concurrent Control | control that takes place while a work activity is in progress |
Management by Walking Around | a term used to describe when a manager is out in the work area interacting directly with employees |
Feedback Control | control that takes place after a work activity is done |
Management Information System(MIS) | a system use to provide management with needed information on a regular basis |
Benchmarking | the search for the best practices among competitors or noncompetitors that lead to their superior performance |
Benchmark | the standards of excellence against which to measure and compare |
Operations Management | the transformation process that converts resources into finished goods and services |
Manufacturing Organizations | organizations that produce physical goods |
Service Organizations | organizations that produce nonphysical outputs in the form of services |
Value | the performance characteristics, features, and attributes, and any other aspects of goods and services for which customers are willing to give up resources |
Value Chain | the entire series of organizational work activities that add value at each step from raw materials to finished product |
Value Chain Management | the process of managing the sequence of activities and information along the entire value chain |
Intellectual Property | proprietary information that's crtical to an organization's efficient and effective functioning and competitiveness |
Quality | the ability of a product or service to reliably do what it's supposed to do and to satisfy customer expectations |