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The control function is limited to reacting to events in a business, after the events have already occurred.

A plant manager, wants to initiate a diversity training program in his plant. He is considering whether his department has enough extra people to cover for the time his employees will be engaged in the classes. Which of the following criteria of decision making is he implementing?

The arrangement of jobs into categories reflecting their relative importance to the organization and its goals, level of skills required, and other characteristics is called:

The plan of an organization that contains top management’s decisions about the organization’s mission, goals, strategy, and structure is an example of a ______________-level plan.

The cluster of decisions about what goals to pursue, what actions to take, and how to use resources to achieve goals, is called an organization’s strategy.

A disadvantage of a JIT system is ____________.

A sales manager for a Ford Motor Co. dealer evaluates each one of his sales staff monthly on the basis of the number of new cars sold during the past month. This is a(n) _________________________ type of appraisal.

Information that is useful to the particular circumstances facing a manager is known as _______________ information.

Your patient presented with early stages of periodontal disease. An example of risk factors you might investigate would be:

An organization decides to ask three advertising agencies to pitch a proposal to handle the organization’s business, instead of asking all of the advertising agencies in the city where this organization’s headquarters are located to pitch the account. What type of decision does this represent?