Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

Question

1. Tanesha works for a line of sporting goods stores. In her role, she makes strategic long-term decisions about her company's overall direction, and she creates the overall corporate goals, policies, and strategies. In light of these tasks, Tanesha must be a middle manager.
2. The vice president of human resources is a first-line manager.
3. Robert is a district manager who oversees several store managers in a national chain of restaurants. Robert reports directly to the vice president of stores and marketing, a member of top management. Robert is a middle manager.
4. Mintzberg concluded that managers play three broad types of roles: interpersonal, analytical, and critical.
5. Opportunity entrepreneurs are those who start their own business because they lost a job.

Answer 1

1. FALSE
Top managers make long-term decisions about the overall direction of the organization and establish the company's objectives, policies, and strategies.
2. FALSE
f your title is vice president of production, director of finance, or administrator for human resources, you are a functional manager. A functional manager is responsible for just one organizational activity.
3. TRUE
Middle managers implement the policies and plans of the top managers above them and supervise and coordinate the activities of the first-line managers below them. In the for-profit world, the titles may be "division head," "plant manager," and "branch sales manager."
4. FALSE
From his observations and other research, Mintzberg concluded that managers play three broad types of roles or "organized sets of behavior": interpersonal, informational, and decisional.
5. FALSE
So-called opportunity entrepreneurs are those who start their own business out of a burning desire rather than because they lost a job.