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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The view that much of an organizations success or failure is due to external forces outside managers control






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






3. 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






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






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






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






7. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






16. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






21. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. 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






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






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






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






37. 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






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






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






40. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






41. 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






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






43. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






44. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






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






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






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






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