_______________ is used to ensure that the organisation's goals and objectives are reached and that resources are being used as productively and effectively as possible.

Planning helps top management to see the organisation as a total system in which the goals of all the different parts of the organisation are reconcilable with one another and with the organisation’s primary goal. To which benefit of planning does this statement refer?

Which one of the following is the basic need according to Maslow’s hierarchical needs?

______________ is a management process whereby organisational goals are formulated. This process entails a systematic and clear description of the direction that a business must take to accomplish its organisational goals.

_________ provides the right to a manager to give commands to and demand actions from employees.

The CEO of your company has recently resigned, and a new CEO needs to be appointed quickly. Which one of the following skills would be the most important for a CEO?

One of the major disadvantages of the matrix organisation structure is divided authority, as two managers will often have authority over the same subordinates. According to this scenario, the matrix organisational structure violates the principle of the _____________________.

Taskeen Aboobaker is the operations manager for a retail company. He arranges quarterly meetings with his subordinates to update them about the performance of the company and motivates them to work to reach their objectives. He regularly collaborates with his subordinates on different projects to assist them in reaching their individual and organisation goals. Which one of the following levels of management does Taskeen form part of at the retail company?

Lower-level managers at Sizwe Motors would require sufficient _______________skills to interact with management at middle level and their subordinates.

Mangalani Mudau is a manager for Sibasa Wholesaler. In a strategic session, whereby management was brainstorming ideas that they could implement in the following year, Mangalani asked his subordinates to suggest alternative plans that would assist the company in achieving the set goals. During which step of the planning process would alternative plans be developed?