A project manager has set a goal for her team members to increase sales during the second half of the year. Yet the goal was not clear, ambiguous and not well defined to the team. The goal lacks the important characteristic of being: * O specific O timely O easy realistic

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A project manager has set a goal for her team members to increase sales during
the second half of the year. Yet the goal was not clear, ambiguous and not well
defined to the team. The goal lacks the important characteristic of being:
O specific
O timely
O easy
realistic
Mazen has been an operations manager at XYZ company for the past 5 years. He
holds many complex tasks and is required to stay connected and updated with
information concerning the employees and the customers. Moreover he is aware
of the importance of consistently gathering.givingand receiving
information.One day, he receives a financial report stating that sales for the past
weekend have dropped about 10%. He assumes that this oroblem is caused by
ther nformnation nor find
the recent increase in prices and doesn
alternatives to solve ts pre
Transcribed Image Text:A project manager has set a goal for her team members to increase sales during the second half of the year. Yet the goal was not clear, ambiguous and not well defined to the team. The goal lacks the important characteristic of being: O specific O timely O easy realistic Mazen has been an operations manager at XYZ company for the past 5 years. He holds many complex tasks and is required to stay connected and updated with information concerning the employees and the customers. Moreover he is aware of the importance of consistently gathering.givingand receiving information.One day, he receives a financial report stating that sales for the past weekend have dropped about 10%. He assumes that this oroblem is caused by ther nformnation nor find the recent increase in prices and doesn alternatives to solve ts pre
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