Management for Engineers
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Course Introduction
Management for Engineers is designed to equip engineering students with essential management principles and practices relevant to technical environments. The course covers key topics such as project management, leadership, decision making, budgeting, organizational behavior, and strategic planning. Students will learn how to effectively lead teams, manage resources, communicate within multidisciplinary groups, and bridge the gap between technical expertise and business acumen. Practical case studies and real-world examples highlight the role of engineers in managerial positions, preparing graduates to take on leadership responsibilities in industry settings.
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Principles of Management Version 2.0 by Mason A. Carpenter
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) The three informational roles primarily concerned with the information aspects of managerial work are: _______________, ________________, and ___________________.
Answer: monitor, disseminator, spokesperson
Q2) Tactical planning is usually a(n) ______________ plan designed to develop means to implement the strategy.
Answer: intermediate-range, 1-3 years
Q3) In the role of spokesperson, the manager disseminates the organization's information to the units and departments.
Answer: Fa lse In the role of spokesperson, the manager disseminates the organization's information into its environment
Q4) General managers set specific goals for their own departments and see that the goals are met.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q5) The four decisional roles managers play are: _____________, _____________, ______________, and _____________.
Answer: entrepreneur, disturbance handler, resource allocat or, negotiator
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Chapter 2: International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment
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Q1) Should you reward people for performance improvement and excellence in the United States the same way you reward in Singapore?
Answer: The Answer: is yes Organizations in these countries use employee training and development to help people improve their skills and performance In countries like Russia and Greece, however, family and background count for more than performance does
Q2) Executives across the world believe that business has a responsibility to address issues like environmental concerns only so far as the law requires.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) In the corporate world, social networks are starting points for corporate innovation:
A) Building relationships between managers and employees
B) Improving policies on sick leave and other benefits
C) Bringing limitless arrangements of individuals inspired by opportunities or tasks
D) Building diversity among the workforce (
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Culture and Business
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Q1) Scanning for important trends is a:
A) Planning process
B) Organizing process
C) Leading process
D) Controlling process
Answer: A
Q2) Organizational justice can be classified into three categories:
A) Procedural, distributive and interactional
B) Psychological, reactional, motivational
C) Procedural, psychological, and motivational
D) Interactional, distributive, and psychological
Answer: A
Q3) Our personality is another explanation for why we perform citizenship behaviors.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) _________ refer to stable life goals people have, reflecting what is most important to them.
Answer: Values
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Chapter 4: World Economies
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Q1) A useful personal mission and vision statement should include all of the following EXCEPT:
A) What you wish to accomplish
B) What you would like to contribute
C) What qualities you would like to develop
D) What career you would like to take
Q2) An engaged employee is dedicated, passionate, and absorbed in their work. A)True B)False
Q3) Mission and vision provide a vehicle for communicating an organization's purpose and values to all ________________.
Q4) Mission and vision both relate to an organization's purpose and are typically communicated orally. A)True B)False
Q5) ______________, as viewed in business, refers to intense, driving, or overmastering feelings or convictions.
Q6) Organization structure defines the formal relationship among people and specifies their ___________ and _____________.
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Chapter 5: Global and Regional Economic Cooperation and Integration
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Q1) Planning starts with vision and mission, and concludes with strategizing.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to the diamond strategy, why are vehicles considered part of the strategy?
Q3) The hardest thing for an organization to do is to develop its competitive advantage into ______________ competitive advantage, where the organization's strengths cannot be easily duplicated or imitated by other firms, nor made redundant or less valuable by changes in the external environment.
Q4) Industries with many companies that have successfully differentiated their product have more rivalry.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Cost leaders must maintain their marketing or face the possible entry of more cost-effective competitors.
A)True
B)False
Q6) ________________ stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
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Q7) How has Southwest Airlines combined cost-cutting measures with differentiation?
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Chapter 6: International Monetary System
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Q1) How does the Dow Jones Sustainability Index define CSR?
Q2) When a scorecard is disseminated to others in the organization, strategy becomes a tool specifically for top management.
A)True
B)False
Q3) How do you prepare for an upcoming review?
Q4) MBO was first outlined by ________________.
Q5) Success and progress in achieving goals and objectives will be indicated by how well the vision and mission are achieved.
A)True
B)False
Q6) In a Balanced Scorecard, the internal area looks at production and _______________ measuring performance in terms of maximizing profit from current products and following indicators for future productivity.
Q7) Goals and objectives are a basis for _______________ systems, and can align interests and accountability within and across business units.
Q8) CSR stands for ___________________.
Q9) What is the broader principle behind MBO?
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Chapter 7: Foreign Exchange and the Global Capital Markets
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Q1) One of the most useful frameworks in the area of change is the three-stage mode of planned changed developed by psychologist _______________.
Q2) In organizations using _____________ structures, departments represent the unique products, services, customers, or geographic locations the company is serving.
Q3) The U.S. Department of Labor and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development have reported that the average age of the U.S. workforce will decrease as the baby boom generation nears retirement age.
A)True
B)False
Q4) According to a 2007 SHRM survey, employee resistance to change is one of the top reasons why change efforts fail.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In decentralized companies, decisions are made and problems are solved at lower levels by employees who are closer to the problem in question.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: International Expansion and Global Market Opportunity Assessment
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Q1) Of the three levels of organizational culture, _________________ are taken for granted, and reflect beliefs about human nature and reality.
Q2) Artifacts reflecting values of an organization include
A) Mission statements
B) An office layout that includes open spaces
C) Shared principles
D) Executive suites
Q3) Microsoft is often identified as a company with a(n) _____________ culture.
Q4) Relationship building or __________________ is another important behavior new employees may demonstrate.
Q5) Identifying a set of values that might be used to describe an organization's culture helps us identify, measure, and manage culture more effectively.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The OCP framework describes _____________ cultures as those that emphasize achievement, results, and action as important values.
Q7) A statement of purpose describing who the company is and what they do is a(n)
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Chapter 9: Exporting, Importing, and Global Sourcing
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Q1) Which of the following is not highly correlated with leadership ability?
A) Intelligence
B) Self esteem
C) Integrity
D) Skill and ability
Q2) Transformational leaders ensure that employees demonstrate the right behaviors because the leader provides resources in exchange.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is leader-member exchange theory?
Q4) According to Goleman, in what way are effective leaders different from ineffective leaders?
A) They differ in their ability to control the emotions of others
B) They differ in years of management experience
C) They differ in their understanding of other people's emotions
D) They differ in their understanding of the mission of the company motivation
Q5) Employees working in large groups where opportunities for member interaction were limited preferred _______________ leader decision making.
Q6) What are the characteristics of servant leadership?
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Chapter 10: Strategy and International Business
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Q1) Nominal Group Technique (NGT) is used to structure group meetings when members are grappling with problem solving or idea generation.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Despite its popularity within organizations, group decision making suffers from which of the following?
A) Groups commonly outperform their best member, which can lead to intra-group rivalries.
B) Group decision making is not a thorough process for some management decisions.
C) Groups can suffer from social isolation.
D) Groups may suffer from the tendency to avoid critical evaluation of ideas the group favors.
Q3) How does one avoid overconfidence bias?
Q4) If a group is diverse, poor decisions may be made because different group members may have different ideas based on their background and experience.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Global Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship
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Q1) Our _____________ relative to a chair or another person is another powerful silent messenger that conveys interest, aloofness, professionalism, or lack thereof.
Q2) A downside of the office grapevine is:
A) Information is not accurate
B) Managers do not participate in the exchange of information
C) The grapevine lacks a specific sender
D) The informal structure hinders communication
Q3) As you're listening, pay attention to the sender's body language for additional cues about how they're feeling.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The study of meaning in communication is _______________.
Q5) What is the process model of communication?
Q6) The channel, or ____________ is used to communicate a message and affects how accurately the message will be received.
Q7) Flitting eyes and pursed lips convey a lack of _____________.
Q8) The ______________ of an encoded message may be spoken words, written words, or signs.
Q9) Name five ways to improve your listening habits.
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Chapter 12: Winning Through Effective, Global Talent Management
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Q1) What management challenges do virtual teams present?
Q2) In the ____________ stage, the group comes together for the first time.
Q3) The important role that brings information and expertise to the team and characterized by sharing knowledge and training to those who have less expertise is called _________________.
Q4) What are the stages of the group development model?
Q5) When socialization occurs, groups don't handle future challenges because the individuals don't have an understanding of each other's needs.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The most natural type of team to form is manager-led teams.
A)True
B)False
Q7) The use of teams began to increase because advances in technology have resulted in more complex systems.
A)True
B)False
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Q8) If one person's output becomes another person's input, the team would be experiencing ________________ interdependence.
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Chapter 13: Harnessing the Engine of Global Innovation
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Q1) What are the schedules upon which reinforcement is delivered?
Q2) Maslow's theory is based on a simple premise: human beings have needs that are _______________ ranked.
Q3) Job design is one of the many organizational design decisions managers must make when engaged in the POLC function of:
A) Planning
B) Organizing
C) Leading
D) Controlling
Q4) Equity perceptions develop as a result of a subjective process.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The concern from danger, pain, or an uncertain future is the need for
Q6) What are Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
Q7) We perceive fairness if we believe that the input-to-output ratio we bring into a situation is similar to the input/output ration of a comparison person or
Q8) What is Expectancy Theory?
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Chapter 14: Competing Effectively Through Global
Marketing, Distribution, and Supply-Chain Management
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Q1) The only financial statement that managers need to manage their business effectively is the P&L statement.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In their best-selling book, Lean Thinking, Womack and Jones identified all of the following principles of lean EXCEPT
A) define value from the customer's perspective.
B) describe the value stream for each product or service.
C) define the muda in every business activity.
D) strive for continuous improvement.
Q3) The Baldrige Award is given to organizations only in the manufacturing industry. A)True
B)False
Q4) An example of financial __________ is the fact that organizations are often required to perform and report the results of a financial audit.
Q5) The _______________ is a snapshot of the business's financial position at a certain point in time.
Q6) Producing at the ________ of actual customer demand is a key principle of lean.
Q7) What is balanced scorecard?
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Chapter 15: Understanding the Roles of Finance and Accounting in Global Competitive Advantage
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Q1) Examples of direct pay include which of the following?
A) Flexible hours
B) Performance-based pay
C) Career and social rewards
D) Job security
Q2) "Suppose you came up with a faster way to do a task, but your team was reluctant to make the change; what would you do?" is an example of what kind of interviewing?
A) Testing
B) Situational
C) Placement
D) Performance
Q3) The principles of strategic human resource management and high performance work systems apply to nonprofit enterprises just as they do for-profit ones.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How are organizations that value their employees more profitable than those that do not?
Q5) What is a company's human capital?
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