Engineering Management

What type of authority refers to a specialist's right to oversee lower level personnel involved in the project regardless of the personnel's assignment in the organization?

When a consultant or specialist gives advice to his superior, he is using what type of authority?

When structuring an organization, the engineer manager must be concerned with the determining the scope of work and how it is combined in a job. This refers to _______.

When structuring an organization, the engineer manager must be concerned with the grouping of related jobs, activities, or processes into major organizational subunits. This refers to:

Which technique will the manager use when evaluating alternative using qualitative evaluation?

Which technique will the manager use when evaluating alternative using quantitative evaluation?

What refers to the strategic statement that identifies why an organization exists, its philosophy of management, and its purpose as distinguished form other similar organizations in terms of products, services and markets?

What describes how to determine the number of service units that will minimize both customer's waiting time and cost of service?

What refers to the rational way to conceptualize, analyze, and solve problems in situations involving limited, or partial information about the decision environment?

What is a quantitative technique where samples of populations are statistically determined to be used for a number of processes, such as quality control and marketing research?

What refers to the learning that is provided in order to improve performance on the present job?

What technique is best suited for projects that contain many repetitions of some standard activities?

What organizational structure is based on the assumption that each unit should specialize in a specific functional area and perform all of the tasks that require its expertise?

What type of organization structure in which each project is assigned to a single organizational unit and the various functions are performed by personnel within the unit?

What organizational structure provides a sound basis for balancing the use of human resources and skills?

In which type of organization where the structure can lead to a "dual boss" phenomenon?

In what type of organization where a project manager is held responsible for completion of the project and is often assigned a budget?

In selecting an organizational structrure, which of the ff is not a criterion?

What is NOT a factor to be taken into consideration when selecting an organizational structure for managing projects?

If a project have a multidimensional goals, the project manager often use his _________ to reach a compromise solution