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Management

Subject : business-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






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






3. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






5. Goals - People and Structure






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






7. An MNC that decentralizes management and other decisions to the local country where its doing business






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. A structural arrangement for global organizations that eliminates artificial geographical barries






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






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






21. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






22. 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






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






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






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






26. 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






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






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






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






30. Attention to detail - innovation and risk taking - stability - aggressiveness - team orientation - people orientation - outcome orientation.






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






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






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






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






35. 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






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






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






38. Figurehead - leader - liaison






39. Entailing making decisions or choices






40. 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






41. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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