Important Short Questions and Answers: Defining the Managerial Job

MANAGERIAL BEHAVIOR AND EFFECTIVENESS

1. Define manager?

Manager is a person who plans, organizes directs & controls the allocation of human, material, financial& information resources in pursuit of the organization goals.

2. What is meant by Managerial Job?

A managerial job should be based on a task that has to be done to attain the company‘s objectives. It should always a real job- one that makes a visible if possible measurable contribution to the success of the organization.

3. Define Work Effectiveness.

Manager is a capable person to produce some favorable results.

4. List out the different kinds of effectiveness.

Apparent effectiveness, personal effectiveness, Leadership effectiveness, Team effectiveness, Organizational effectiveness, Managerial effectiveness.

5. List out the types of managers?

Functional, General, Administrative, Entrepreneurs small business owners, Team leaders.

6. What are the Roles of manager regarding decision making?

Entrepreneurship role, Disturbance handling role, Resource allocation role, Negotiation role.

7. How to improve decision making?

1.     Brain storming

2.     Nominal group technique

3.     Electronic meeting

8. What are the Types of control?

1.     Feed forward control

2.     Concurrent control

3.     feed back control

9. What are the Methods of control?

Mechanistic, Organic, Market, Finance of accounting, Automation based control.

10. What you mean by Time Management?

Time management is the act or process of planning and exercising conscious control over the amount of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency or productivity.

11. Equation for effective time management?

Effective time management = Right motivation+Right frame of mind+right teaching.

12. Define Job Description.

A job description is a list that a person might use for general tasks, or functions, and responsibilities of a position. It may often include to whom the position reports, specifications such as the qualifications or skills needed by the person in the job, or a salary range.

13. What is Job Related Behavior?

Work behavior is the behavior one uses in employment and is normally more formal than other types of human behavior. This varies from profession to profession, as some are far more casual than others. For example, a computer programmer would usually have far more leeway in their work behavior than a lawyer.

14. Who is a Trainee?

A trainee is commonly known as an individual taking part in a trainee program or a graduate program within a company after having graduated from university or college. A trainee is an official employee of the firm that is being trained to the job he/she was originally hired for.

15. What is Talent?

Talent means the skill that someone has quite naturally to do something that is hard. Someone who has talent is able to do something without trying hard. It is an ability that someone is born with. It is a high degree of ability or of aptitudes. People may have talent for music, dancing, acting, sport or other skills.

16. Define Transfer.

A transfer may involve an exchange of funds when it involves a change in ownership, such as when an investor sells a real estate holding.

17. What Is Delegation?

Delegation is the assignment of responsibility or authority to another person (normally from a manager to a subordinate) to carry out specific activities. It is one of the core concepts of management leadership. However, the person who delegated the work remains accountable for the outcome of the delegated work.

18.            What are the Functional Dimensions of Henri Fayol?

·        Production

·        Marketing

·        Human Resource

·        Finance

19.            What you mean by Liaison Role?

Managers act as liaisons when making contacts with people outside of their area of responsibility, both inside their organization and outside in the world at large.

20.            List out the three Laws of Time and Effort Management.

1.     The Law for Planning our time

2.     The Law for applying our effort

3.     The Law for Investing our Talent

21.            What are the Objectives of Effective Manager?

·        Customer satisfaction

·        Financial

·        Internal/operational

·        Product Management duties

22.            Equation for effective Time Management?

Effective time management = Right motivation+Right frame of mind+right teaching.

23. Define job behaviour?

Job behaviour means the total set of work related behaviour that the organisation expects the individuals to display.

·        Effective job behaviour

·        Ineffective job behaviour