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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






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






6. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. 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






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






16. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






17. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






20. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






23. 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






24. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






27. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






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






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






32. 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






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






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






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






36. 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






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






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






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






40. The number of components in an organizations environment and the extent of knowledge that the organizations has about those components






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






42. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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