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MANGT 220
Vocab Review Ch. 1-3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Management process | Management process is planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the use of resources to accomplish performance goals. |
| Planning | Planning is the process of setting goals and objectives and making plans to accomplish them. |
| Organizing | Organizing is the process of defining and assigning tasks, allocating resources, and providing resource support. |
| Leading | Leading is the process of arousing enthusiasm and inspiring efforts to achieve goals |
| Controlling | Controlling is the process of measuring performance and taking action to ensure desired results. |
| Top Management | Top managers guide the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts. |
| Effective and efficient | Goals achieved. No resources wasted and high productivity |
| Effective but not efficient | Goals achieved and resources wasted |
| Neither effective nor efficient | Goals not achieved, but resources wasted |
| Ethics | Ethics establish standards of good or bad, or right or wrong, in one’s conduct. |
| Terminal Values | Terminal values are preferences about desired end states. |
| Instrumental Values | Instrumental values are preferences regarding the means to desired ends |
| Utilitarian View | Utilitarian view holds that ethical behavior delivers the greatest good to the most people. |
| Individualism View | Individualism view holds that ethical behavior advances long-term self-interests. |
| Moral Rights View | Moral rights view holds that ethical behavior respects and protects fundamental rights. |
| Justice View | Justice view holds that ethical behavior treats people impartially and fairly. |
| Immoral Manager | Managers who choose to behave unethically |
| Amoral Manager | Managers who fail to consider the ethics of their behavior. |
| Moral Manager | Managers who make ethical behavior a personal goal |
| Corporate Governance | The oversight of top management by a board of directors |
| Culture | Culture is a shared set of beliefs, values, and patterns of behavior common to a group of people |
| Code of Ethics | Code of ethics are a formal statement of values and ethical standards. |
| Social Responsibility | Corporate social responsibility is the obligation of an organization to serve the interests of multiple stakeholders, including society at large. |
| Areas of Social Responsibility | o Customers who use its products o Employees and their jobs o Investors with funds at risk o The physical environment o The general social welfare |
| 3 P's | People, planet, profit |
| 4 Social Responsibility Stances | Proactive, Accommodative, Defensive, Obstructionist Highest to Lowest. |
| Government influences businesses | Direct: Environmental protection legislation (EPA), Consumer protection legislation (FTC and FDA), Employee protection legislation (EEOC), Securities legislation (SEC). Indirect: Tax codes (IRS) |
| Businesses influence government | Personal contacts and networks, lobbying, political action committee (PACs), Favors and other influence tactics. |
| Whistleblower | Whistleblowers expose the misdeeds of others in organizations. |
| Corporate Social Audit | Social responsibility audits measure an organization’s performance in various areas of social responsibility. |