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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






2. Whether to impose external controls or allow employees to control their own actions - What criteria should be emphasized in employee performance evaluations - What repercussions will occur from exceeding ones budget






3. A systematic arrangement of people brought together to accomplish some specific purpose






4. Entailing making decisions or choices






5. An agreement in which an organization gives another the right for a fee to make or sell its products using its technology or product specifications






6. Degree to which work is organized around team rather than individuals






7. Degree to which employees are expected to exhibit precision analysis and attention to detial






8. Includes monitoring performance comparing it with goals and correcting any significant deviations






9. The number of components in an organizations environment and the extent of knowledge that the organizations has about those components






10. Employees - customers - unions - social and political action groups - shareholders - competitors - communities - Trade and industry associations - Suppliers - governments - media.






11. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






12. Includes defining goals establishing strategy and developing plans to coordinate activites






13. The degree to which managers are concerned with increasing employee job satisfaction - What leadership styles are appropriate - Whether all disagreements--even constructive ones--should be eliminated






14. When a business firm engages in social actions because of its obligation to meet certain economic and legal responsibilities






15. View that says ethical decisions are made solely on the basis of their outcomes or consequences






16. Individuals in an organization who direct the activities of others






17. The manager makes decisions alone - but explains the reasons to employees; authority is centralised and communication is one way.






18. Job-specific knowledge and techniques needed to perform work tasks






19. Cultures in which the key values are deeply held and widely shared






20. Factors forces situations and events outside the organization that affect its performance






21. The biological heritage (including physical characteristics such as ones skin color and associated traits that people use to identify themselves






22. The use of scientific methods to define the "one best way" for a job to be done - Frederick Winslow Taylor.






23. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






24. A specific type of strategic alliance in which the partners agree to form a separate independent organization for some business purpose.






25. A formal document that states an organizations primary values and the ethical rules its expects managers and non managerial employees to follow






26. Individuals who are typically responsible for translating goals set by top managers into specific details that lower-level managers wills see get done






27. Supervisors responsible for directing the day to day activities of non managerial employees






28. A managers ability to work with understand mentor and motivate other both individually and in groups






29. Degree to which employees are aggressive and competitive rather than cooperative






30. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






31. Degree to which employees are encouraged to be innovative and take risks






32. Individuals who are responsible for making decisions about the direction of the organization and establishing policies that affect all organizational memebers






33. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






34. A set of rules or principles that defines right and wrong conduct






35. Involving people (subordinates and persons outside the organization) and other duties that are ceremonial and symbolic in nature






36. Degree to which management decision take into account the effects on people in the organization






37. The shared values principles traditions and ways of doing things that influence the way organizational members act






38. Ways in which people in a workforce are similar and different from one another in terms of gender age race sexual orientation ethnicity cultural background and physical abilities and dissablities






39. When employees are connected to satisfied with and enthusiastic about their jobs






40. An MNC that centralizes management and other decisions in the home country






41. People who work directly on a job or task and have no responsibility for overseeing the work of others






42. Degree to which organizational decisions and actions emphasize maintaining the status quo






43. Includes motivating employees directing the activites of other selecting the most effective communication channel and resolving conflicts






44. A direct investment in a foreign country that involves setting up a separate and independent facility or office






45. Managers allow employees to take full responsibility for decisions within their areas; authority is decentralised.






46. Figurehead - leader - liaison






47. The manager encourages employees to become actively involved in the decision-making process; authority is decentralised and communication is a two way process.






48. How much autonomy should be designed into employees jobs - Whether task should be done by individuals or in teams - The degree to which department managers interact with each other






49. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






50. Purchasing materials or labor from around the world wherever it is cheapest