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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The degree of risk that plans should contain - Whether plans should be developed by individuals or teams - The degree of environmental scanning in which management will engage






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






3. View that says ethical decisions are made in order to enforce rules fairly and impartially






4. 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






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






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






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






8. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






9. View that says ethical decisions are made in order to respect and protect individual liberties and privileges






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






11. A business firms intention beyond its legal and economic obligations to do the right things act in ways that are good for society






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






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






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






15. The characteristics of a population used for purposes of social stuidies






16. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






18. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






20. A narrow focus in which managers see thing only through their own eyes and from their own perspective






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






22. A partnership between an organization and a foreign company partners in which both share resources and knowledge in developing new products of building production facilities.






23. The degree of change and complexity in an organizations enviroment






24. 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






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






26. 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






27. A companys ability to achieve its business goals and increase long-term shareholder value by integrating economic - environmental and social opportunities into its business strategies






28. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






31. Doing the right things or completing activities so that organizational goals are attained






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






33. Includes determining what tasks are to be done who is to do them how the tasks are to be grouped whop reports to whom and who will make decisions






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






35. An independent business having fewer than 500 employees that doesn't necessarily engage in any new or innovative practices and has relatively little impact on its industry






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






37. Doing things right or getting the most output from the least amount of inputs






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






39. When a business firm engages in social actions in response to some popular social need






40. Goals - People and Structure






41. Entailing making decisions or choices






42. A boundary less world where goods and services are produced and marketed worlwide






43. Any type of international company that maintains operations in multiple countries






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






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






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






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






48. 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






49. Degree to which managers focus on results or outcomes rather than on how these outcomes are achived






50. Specific categories of managerial behavior often grouped around interpersonal relationships information transfer and decision making