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A manager sets targets for the year and lays out how the team will reach them. This process is:Read the answer and worked solution →Every plan has two basic components: action statements and:Read the answer and worked solution →The part of a plan describing the means by which the organisation moves forward is the:Read the answer and worked solution →A plan that sets a long-term vision and says what business the organisation is in is a:Read the answer and worked solution →A statement answering the question of what business the organisation should undertake is its:Read the answer and worked solution →A division draws up unit-level plans to help deliver the company's strategy. Those are:Read the answer and worked solution →A plan expressed entirely in numerical terms is a:Read the answer and worked solution →Rules, policies and procedures that cover issues managers face repeatedly are called:Read the answer and worked solution →The procedure invoked automatically under such a repeated plan is known as an:Read the answer and worked solution →A plan written for one unique situation and then discarded is a:Read the answer and worked solution →An airline prepares alternative courses of action in case a disaster disrupts its schedule. That is:Read the answer and worked solution →Planning feeds the control function by supplying the performance:Read the answer and worked solution →A manager notices activity drifting from the plan and acts to bring it back. That step is taking:Read the answer and worked solution →A builder inspects all materials for quality before any work starts. That is an example of:Read the answer and worked solution →A builder walks the site advising carpenters while they work. That concurrent control is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Work must pass an inspection before the next stage may begin. That go or no-go check is called:Read the answer and worked solution →For goals to motivate, research says they must be accepted, specific and:Read the answer and worked solution →Setting a target that staff see as impossible causes those goals to lose their:Read the answer and worked solution →Firms using strategic planning showed a median five-year return on investment of:Read the answer and worked solution →Control systems depend on information that is objective, timely, distributed and:Read the answer and worked solution →Firms linking planning and control through continuous improvement adopted the cycle named after:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the plan typesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the control wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the planning gatesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the planning wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Standing or single useRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the management wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Planning bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

Worked practice questions

A manager sets targets for the year and lays out how the team will reach them. This process is:

  1. Planning
  2. Painting
  3. Pausing
  4. Packing
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Correct answer: A. Planning

1. Two things are happening: goals are fixed and means are chosen. 2. Both together define the managerial function at work. 3. That process is planning. _Source: OpenStax Principles of Management, Chapter 17, Organizational Planning and Controlling._

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Every plan has two basic components: action statements and:

  1. Group statements
  2. Goal statements
  3. Gain statements
  4. Grant statements
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Correct answer: B. Goal statements

1. One component says how the organisation will move. 2. The other names the end state it is aiming at. 3. That second component is the goal statement. _Source: OpenStax Principles of Management, Chapter 17, Organizational Planning and Controlling._

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The part of a plan describing the means by which the organisation moves forward is the:

  1. Action statement
  2. Annual statement
  3. Audit statement
  4. Asset statement
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Correct answer: A. Action statement

1. Goals alone say nothing about how to get there. 2. Something must specify the moves that close the gap. 3. That is the action statement. _Source: OpenStax Principles of Management, Chapter 17, Organizational Planning and Controlling._

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