Chapter Fourteen
Management, Motivation, and Leadership: Bringing Business to Life
Review Questions
1. Review the definition of management at the beginning of the chapter and briefly define each of the 4 functions. What are the challenges in carrying out these functions in today’s hyper-competitive marketplace?
Planning- Determining organizational goals and action plans for how to achieve those goals.
Organizing- determining a structure for both individual jobs and the overall organization.
Leading-directing and motivating people to achieve organizational goals.
Controlling-monitoring performance and making adjustments as needed.
The challenge in planning is that planning is essentially forecasting future actions and events. Most
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Should we spend fewer ad dollars on TV and more on the web?
Operational planning: First line management, daily, weekly and monthly TF
How should we schedule employees this week? When should we schedule delivery for each batch of product? How should customer service people answer the phones?
Successful firms often encourage flow of feedback up and down the organization to ensure that all key plans are sound and that all key players “buy in.”
6. What is the purpose of a mission statement? Why are the most effectictive mission statements simple, vivid, and compelling?
The mission defines the organization’s purpose, values, and core goals, providing the framework for all other plans. It is simple, vivid and compelling so that the employees from the janitor to the CEO, from the customers to investors can easily understand.
7. Name five potential sources of competitive advantage that might be strengths in a SWOT analysis. Are these advantages likely to change over time? Why or why not?
Premium brand name, proven management team, lower costs/ higher margins, diverse workforce, higher consumer demand. I think these are definitely likely to change simply cause who knows how long you can maintain a low cost, high margin company. Anything can happen.
8. What are the pros and cons of each key organizational structure? Which do you think would be the best fit for you? Explain your answer.
Centralization:
Pros: simple and
The Mission Statement is a vital component in the strategic planning of a business organization. Creating a mission is one of the first actions an organization should take. This can be a building block for an overall strategy and development of more specific functional strategies (Abrahams, 1995). By defining a mission an organization is making a statement of organizational purpose.
1. Mission and Vision Statement – Mission is a written declaration of the purpose of an organization and Vision is that business will accomplish in future years.
1. When a social scientists say that the concept of race is a "social construct", they mean that the mainstream belief among scientists is that race is a social construct without biological meaning.
List five problems that you could encounter when creating documents if you do not make use of automatic functions.
Most organization have develop an element called a mission statement. A mission statement describes and helps focus the attention of organizational members and external constituents on the organization's core purpose. This is use in the criminal justice and security agency use mission statement for the success of the organization and better serve the community or businesses that they have agree to serve and protect.
Chapter thirteen of the textbook, Biosecurity and Bioterrorism Containing and Preventing Biological Threats, by Jeffrey R. Ryan, examines a wide range of techniques, set up, to help the United States, or U.S., in becoming prepared for a potential biological terrorist attack. A portion of the techniques mentioned throughout chapter thirteen were early warning detection systems. These systems are known as the Autonomous Detection system, and the Biohazard Detection System (Ryan, 327-329). Although both these detection systems have their benefits, the one that has conveyed more consideration over the years is the Biohazard Detection
The mission statement is often publically stated and used by almost every organization today. It helps provide basic guidelines, essentially the core values of a company, and what they aim for. A mission statement gives customers
3. What major problems might you encounter with your new sales force structure as it relates to both external factors (customers) and internal factors (employee reactions)?
In this assignment I will be exploring what missions statements are, ethos and the values the schools set to reflect their vision. Mission: this means that is it a statement of what an organisation is focusing on and why they want to do it. An example of a mission statement; “Our vision is to create a school community where children participate, excel and are proud of their achievements…” set by Round Hill primary school. Schools create mission statements in order to set themselves a Goal to reach for, a goal in which everyone will learn from it and gain an experience, because the statement they have set is creating them a vision to aim for.
This is the agreed-upon statement by the organization and explains the reason for its existence. It is necessarily broad to encompass the diversity within the business. The statement is not precise in its measurements nor does it need to be, but it does need to be periodically reviewed by the business to see whether it still encompasses all of the relevant activities of the business.
Planning is not only about knowing what to do, when to do and who will do it, but it is also about defining the path towards attaining the
The mission statement communicates to stakeholders the main activities that the company focuses on in order for it to achieve its vision. The mission statement communicates to employees’ information on how to conduct their day to day activities. The mission statements also describe the organizations, policies, culture as well as ethics (Alesia 2013).
One main weakness we envisage to count against is that we are a new in the
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A mission statement describes the objective of a company or an organization. It shortly defines the overall goal and clarifies why the company exists (Griffin,1990). A mission statement should indicate some core points..