What term refers to a specific set of departmental skills knowledge and experience that allows an organization to outperform its competitors?

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organizations

are collections of people who work together and coordinate their actions to achieve a wide variety of goals or desired future outcomes

management

is the planing, organizing, leading and controlling of human and other resources to achieve organization goals effectively and efficiency

organizational performance

is a measure of how efficiently and effectively a manager uses resources to satisfy customers and achieve organizational goals

efficiency

is a measure of how productively resources are used to achieve a goal

effectiveness

is a measure of the appropriateness of the goals that managers have selected for the organization to pursue and the degree to which the organization achieves those goals

planning

identifying and select appropriate organizational goals and courses of action. they develop strategies for how to achieve high performance

strategy

a cluster of decisions about what goals to pursue, what actions to take and how to use resources to achieve goals

low cost strategy

is a way of obtaining customers by making decisions that allow an organization to produce goods or services more cheaply than its competitors so ti can charge lower prices than they do

differentiation strategy

is a way of obtaining customers by making decisions that allow organization to produce new, exciting and unique goods or service

organizing

is structuring working relationships so organizational members interact and cooperate to achieve organizational goals

organizational structure

a formal system of task and reporting relationships that coordinates and motivates members so they work together to achieve organizational goals

leading

is the articulation of a clear vision and energizing and enabling organizational members so they understand the party they are play in achieving organizational

controlling

is the process of evaluating how well an organization is achieving it goals, and taking corrective actions to maintain or improve performance

department

is a group of people who work together and possess similar skills or knowledge, tools, or techniques to perform their jobs

first line managers

supervisors. they are responsible for daily supervision of nonmanagerial employees who perform the specific activities necessary to produce goods and services

middle managers

responsible for finding the best way to use resources to acheive organizational goals

top managers

establish organizational goals, decide how departments shoul interact, and monitor the performance of middle managers.

chief executive officer

is a company's most senior and important manager, the one all other top managers report to COO

chief operating officer

often refers to the top manger who is being roomed to take over as CEO when the current CEO becomes the chair of the board, retires, or leaves the company

conceptual skills

are demonstrated in the general ability to analyze and diagnose a situation and to distinguish between cuase and effect

human skills

include the general ability to understand, alter, lead, and control the behavior of other individual and groups

technical skills

are the job specific skills required to perform a particular type of work or occupation at a high level

core competency

is often used to refer to the specific set of departmental skills, knowledge, and experience that allows one organization to outperform its competitors

restructuring

involves simplifying , shrinking, or downsizing an organizations operation to lower operating costs

outsourcing

involves contracting with another company, usually in a low cost country abroad, to have it perform a work activity the organization perviously performed itself

empowerment

is a mangement technique that involves giving employees more authority and responsibility over how they perform their work activities

self managed team

a group of employees who assume collective responsibility for organizing, controlling and supervising their own work activities

global organizations

organizations that operate and compete in more than one country

competitive advantage

is the ability of one organization to outperform other organizations because it produces desired goods or services more efficiently and effectively than its competitors

innovation

the process of creating new or improved goods and services that customer want or developing better ways to produce or provide goods and services, poses a special challenge

turnaround management

is the creation of a new vision for a struggling company based on a new approach to planning and organizing to make better use of company's resources and allow it to survive and prosper

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What term is used to refer to the specific set of departmental skills knowledge and experience that allows one organization to outperform its competitors?

Core competency is used to refer to a specific set of departmental skills, knowledge and experience that allows one organization to outperform its competitors.

Is defined as the ability of one organization to outperform?

competitive advantage. The ability of one organization to outperform other organizations because it produces the desired goods or services more efficiently and effectively than they do.

Which type of skill allows a manager to analyze and diagnose a situation and to distinguish between cause and effect?

Conceptual skills The ability to analyze and diagnose a situation and distinguish between cause and effect.

Which level of management is responsible for finding the best way to organize resources to achieve organizational goals?

Supervising the first-line managers are middle managers, responsible for finding the best to organize human and other resources to achieve organizational goals.