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






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






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






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






5. 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.






6. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






9. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. 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






20. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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






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






41. 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






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






43. The process of getting things done effectively efficiently through and with other people






44. The manager makes all decisions alone - with centralised authority and one-way communication.






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






46. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






49. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






50. Figurehead - leader - liaison