The Perfect Manager (Scenario)

question 143

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The Perfect Manager (Scenario)
Sarah has proven herself to be an able manager. Her section has a high project completion rate with the highest-quality product and the lowest defects in her division. In addition, she accomplishes this with fewer full-time employees than other managers. Some say that the secret of her success is in her ability to delegate responsibility and her understanding of the basic "management functions."
-Sarah's ability to complete activities efficiently and effectively with and through other people is known as ________.

• A) delegation
• B) management
• C) coercion
• D) leadership

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Definitions:

Perception

The process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions to give meaning to their environment.

Top-Down Perceptual Processes

Cognitive processes that involve using previous knowledge, expectations, and experiences to interpret and understand sensory information.

Template Matching

A technique in pattern recognition in which a predefined template or pattern is compared with potential matches.

Prototype Matching

A cognitive process where new items are compared to an idealized or average category member to make recognition or classification decisions.