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Empowering employees means giving employees as much freedom as possible to become self-directed and self-motivated.

A) True
B) False

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Planning teams help businesses:

A) Find business opportunities
B) Monitor the environment
C) Watch for challenges
D) All of the responses are correct

E) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

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A SWOT analysis helps managers better develop goals and objectives.

One of the unique challenges managers face today is global competition.

__________ means creating a vision for the organization and communicating,guiding,training,coaching and motivating others to work effectively to achieve the organization's goals and objectives.

__________ involves recruiting,hiring,motivating and retaining the best people available to accomplish the company's objectives.

Leadership is an appointed position with a title; while management tends to have a broader scope encompassing one's personal life too.

Controlling means measuring whether what actually occurs meets the organization's goals.

Management is a position granted to people because they are capable.

__________ is a position of power,a position that is granted to individuals because they are capable.

A Theory X manager likely believes the average person dislikes work and wishes to avoid responsibility.

A __________ structure is one where the staff personnel advise and assist the line personnel in meeting the goals of the organization.

__________ include general managers,division managers,district managers and plant managers or supervisors.

Organizations can continue to accomplish many things without managers.

__________ planning is the process of developing detailed,short-term statements about what is to be done,who is to do it and how it is to be done.

Managers are responsible for which of the following?

A SWOT analysis is an analysis of the organization's skills,weaknesses,organizational chart and timelines.

The business atmosphere overseen by a Theory X manager is likely to be much more relaxed than that of a Theory Y manager.

Define work-life balance and give one example of how a manager may create work-life balance issues.

The intense management scrutiny seen today is most likely a result of: