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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Degree to which work is organized around team rather than individuals






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






4. 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






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






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






7. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






9. 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






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






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






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






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






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






15. 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






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






17. 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






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






19. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






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






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






33. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






35. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. 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






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






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






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






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