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Management
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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. Social traits such as ones cultural background or allegiance that are shared by a human population
Ethinicity
Components of the External Environment
Small Business
Non managerial employees
2. 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
Planning
Organizing
Theory of justice view of ethics
Global sourcing
3. Any type of international company that maintains operations in multiple countries
Multinational corporation (MNC)
Organizational culture
Team orientation
Demographics
4. Managers allow employees to take full responsibility for decisions within their areas; authority is decentralised.
Conceptual skills
Decisions roles
Ethinicity
The Laissez-Faire Style
5. Job-specific knowledge and techniques needed to perform work tasks
Technical skills
Strong cultures
Planning
Transnational (border less) organization
6. View that says ethical decisions are made in order to respect and protect individual liberties and privileges
Rights view of ethics
Organizing
Foreign subsidary
Code of ethics
7. A managers ability to build a power base and establish the right connections
Controlling
Political skills
Social responsivness
Ethinicity
8. Benefits that provide a wide range of scheduling options and allow employees more flexibility at work accommodating their needs for work-life balance
Decisions roles
Components of the External Environment
Family-friendly benifits
Social responsibility (corporate social responsibility or CSR)
9. Degree to which management decision take into account the effects on people in the organization
People orientation
Organizing
Stability
Contingent workforce
10. Any constituencies in an organizations environment that are affected by that organizations decisions and actions
Efficency
Stakeholders
Middle Managers
Small Business
11. Individuals in an organization who direct the activities of others
Workforce diveristy
Managers
Global Village
Three Characteristics of Organizations
12. Autocratic - Persuasive - Consultative - Participative - Laissez-Faire
Exporting
Scientific management
Outcome orientation
Management Styles
13. Any equipment tools or operating methods that are designed to make work more efficient
Non managerial employees
Licensing
Technology
Informational roles
14. Purchasing materials or labor from around the world wherever it is cheapest
Decisional roles
Global sourcing
Components of the External Environment
Planning
15. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information
The Consultative Style
Outcome orientation
Informational roles
Stakeholders
16. The degree of change and complexity in an organizations enviroment
Environmental complexity
Environmental uncertainty
How organizations go global
Interpersonal roles
17. The manager makes all decisions alone - with centralised authority and one-way communication.
Informational roles
Licensing
The Autocratic Style
Technology
18. The manager encourages employees to become actively involved in the decision-making process; authority is decentralised and communication is a two way process.
Interpersonal roles
The Participative Style
Controlling
The Consultative Style
19. The characteristics of a population used for purposes of social stuidies
Conceptual skills
Demographics
Interpersonal roles
Leading
20. Goals - People and Structure
Managerial roles
Three Characteristics of Organizations
Contingent workforce
Dimensions of organizational culture
21. Degree to which employees are aggressive and competitive rather than cooperative
Agressiveness
Planning
Organization
The Participative Style
22. The view that much of an organizations success or failure is due to external forces outside managers control
First-line managers
Organizational culture
Small Business
Symbolic view of management
23. Planning - Organizing - Leading - Controlling Middle ACHIEVING THE ORGANIZATIONS STATES PURPOSE.
Four Management Functions
Organizational culture
Social obligation
Transnational (border less) organization
24. The manager makes the final decision after gaining feedback from stakeholders; authority is still somewhat centralised; communication is a two way process.
Transnational (border less) organization
The Consultative Style
Planning
The Laissez-Faire Style
25. Cultures in which the key values are deeply held and widely shared
Utilitarian view of ethics
Interpersonal skills
Organizing
Strong cultures
26. A business firms intention beyond its legal and economic obligations to do the right things act in ways that are good for society
Organizing
Transnational (border less) organization
Social responsibility (corporate social responsibility or CSR)
Innovation and risk taking
27. Figurehead - leader - liaison
External factors
Global corporation
Interpersonal roles
Omnipotent view of management
28. Degree to which employees are expected to exhibit precision analysis and attention to detial
Stability
Attention to detial
Licensing
Code of ethics
29. 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
Global sourcing
Small Business
Organizing
Code of ethics
30. The number of components in an organizations environment and the extent of knowledge that the organizations has about those components
Conceptual skills
Technology
Environmental complexity
Transnational (border less) organization
31. The view that managers are directly responsible for an organizations success or failure
Planning
Stakeholders
Transnational (border less) organization
Omnipotent view of management
32. View that says ethical decisions are made in order to enforce rules fairly and impartially
Theory of justice view of ethics
Symbolic view of management
Exporting
Decisions roles
33. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations
Planning
Decisions roles
Omnipotent view of management
Conceptual skills
34. Specific categories of managerial behavior often grouped around interpersonal relationships information transfer and decision making
Managerial roles
Organizational culture
Interpersonal roles
Joint venture
35. The manager makes decisions alone - but explains the reasons to employees; authority is centralised and communication is one way.
The Persuasive Style
Innovation and risk taking
Informational roles
Transnational (border less) organization
36. A formal document that states an organizations primary values and the ethical rules its expects managers and non managerial employees to follow
Political skills
Dimensions of organizational culture
Theory of justice view of ethics
Code of ethics
37. Includes monitoring performance comparing it with goals and correcting any significant deviations
Technology
Top managers
Environmental uncertainty
Controlling
38. View that says ethical decisions are made solely on the basis of their outcomes or consequences
Utilitarian view of ethics
Social responsibility (corporate social responsibility or CSR)
The Participative Style
Symbolic view of management
39. Making products domestically and selling them abroad
Attention to detial
Exporting
Employee Engagement
Management
40. 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
The Persuasive Style
Leading
Organizing
Symbolic view of management
41. A managers ability to work with understand mentor and motivate other both individually and in groups
Employee Engagement
Interpersonal skills
The Consultative Style
Controlling
42. A narrow focus in which managers see thing only through their own eyes and from their own perspective
Agressiveness
Parochiallism
Theory of justice view of ethics
Interpersonal roles
43. 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
Dimensions of organizational culture
The Laissez-Faire Style
Licensing
Stability
44. Economic - Global - Political/Legal - Socio cultural - Technological - demographics. In the middle THE ORGANIZATION`
Decisional roles
Foreign subsidary
The Persuasive Style
Components of the External Environment
45. Includes motivating employees directing the activites of other selecting the most effective communication channel and resolving conflicts
Social responsibility (corporate social responsibility or CSR)
Rights view of ethics
Leading
Agressiveness
46. 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
Organization
Controlling
Four Management Functions
The Consultative Style
47. 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
Innovation and risk taking
Sustainability
Managers
The Persuasive Style
48. A boundary less world where goods and services are produced and marketed worlwide
Global Village
Organizational culture
Interpersonal skills
Effectiveness
49. Part-time temporary and contract workers who are available for hire on an as-needed basis
Efficency
Team orientation
Importing
Contingent workforce
50. The process of getting things done effectively efficiently through and with other people
Global sourcing
Social responsibility (corporate social responsibility or CSR)
Management
People orientation