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Mintzberg's managerial taxonomy includes three categories of managerial roles. Which of the following is not one of those categories?
 
  a. Information-processing roles c. managing roles
  b. interpersonal roles d. decision-making roles

Question 2

The acronym used to identify Gulick and Urwick's (1937) seven principles associated with management is:
 
  a. PDQRZ c. POSCORD
  b. POSDCORB d. POSDCD



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Answer to Question 1

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Mintzberg (1973) categorized the roles or behaviors, expectations, and recurring activities that managers do into a taxonomy or classification system. Mintzberg's taxonomy of management roles included the following 1) information processing roles, 2) interpersonal roles, and 3) decision-making roles.

Answer to Question 2

B
Gulick and Urwick's (1937) seven principles that define the management process are: planning (P), organizing (O), staffing (S), directing (D), coordinating (CO), reporting (R), and budgeting (B). Therefore the acronym is: POSDCORB.





 

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