MGMT Chapter 16

Final Exam Review

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Cards In This Set

Front Back
How is productivity defined as
Outputs over Inputs
6 Steps Why Control is Needed
To adapt to uncertainty
Discover Irregularities
Reduce Cost, Increase Productivity, Add Value
Detect Opportunities
Deal with Complexity
Decentralize Decision making, Increase team work
4 Steps of Control
Establish Standards
Measure Performance
Compare Performance to standards
Take corrective action
6 Areas of Control
Physical
HR
Informational
Financial
Structural
Cultural
Four Elements of the Balanced Scorecard
Financial Perspective
Customer Perspective
International Business
Innovation and learning perspective
Four Mechanisms of Measure MGMT success
Top Exec's agree on Strategy
Communication is clear
There is better focus and alignment
The Org culture is clear and emphasizes teamwork
Four Barriers to Effective Management
Objectives are Fuzzy
Management puts too much trust in informal feedback
Employees resist new measurement system

Companies focus too much on measuring activites instead of results
Deming's PDCA Cycle
Plan
Do
Act
Check
Components of TQM
Make continuous improvement a priority
Get every employee involved
Listen to and Learn from customers and employees
Use accurate standards to identify and eliminate problems
Rater Scale components
Reliability
Assurance
Tangibles
Empathy
Responsiveness
Keys to Successful Control Systems
Strategic-Result Oriented
Timely, accurate, Objective
Realistic, positive
Flexible
Barriers to Successful Control Systems
Too much control
Too little employee participation
Overemphasis on means instead of ends
Overemphasis on one instead of multiple approaches