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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A boundary less world where goods and services are produced and marketed worlwide






2. 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






3. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






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






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






8. 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






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






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






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






12. Goals - People and Structure






13. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






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






17. Entailing making decisions or choices






18. Benefits that provide a wide range of scheduling options and allow employees more flexibility at work accommodating their needs for work-life balance






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






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






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






22. 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






23. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






24. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






26. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






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






30. 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






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






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






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






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






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






36. Individuals who are typically responsible for translating goals set by top managers into specific details that lower-level managers wills see get done






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






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






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






40. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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