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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






5. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






22. 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






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






24. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






26. 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






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






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






29. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. 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






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






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






41. 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.






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






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






44. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






45. 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






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






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






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






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






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