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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Cultures in which the key values are deeply held and widely shared






2. 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






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






4. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






6. Planning - Organizing - Leading - Controlling Middle ACHIEVING THE ORGANIZATIONS STATES PURPOSE.






7. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






8. The view that managers are directly responsible for an organizations success or failure






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






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






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






12. Autocratic - Persuasive - Consultative - Participative - Laissez-Faire






13. 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.






14. A managers ability to build a power base and establish the right connections






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






16. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






17. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






19. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






20. Minimal Global investment - Global sourcing- exporting and importing - licensing - franchising - strategic alliance - joint venture - foreign subsidiary. - Significant global investment






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






22. Any constituencies in an organizations environment that are affected by that organizations decisions and actions






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






24. 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






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






26. Goals - People and Structure






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






28. Part-time temporary and contract workers who are available for hire on an as-needed basis






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






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






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






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






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






34. Any equipment tools or operating methods that are designed to make work more efficient






35. 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






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






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






38. 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






39. Economic - Global - Political/Legal - Socio cultural - Technological - demographics. In the middle THE ORGANIZATION`






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






41. The manager makes the final decision after gaining feedback from stakeholders; authority is still somewhat centralised; communication is a two way process.






42. An agreement in which an organization gives other organization the right for a fee to use its name and operating methods






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






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






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






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






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






48. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






50. The view that much of an organizations success or failure is due to external forces outside managers control