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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An MNC that decentralizes management and other decisions to the local country where its doing business






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






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






4. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






8. 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






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






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






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






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






13. 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






14. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






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






18. 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






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






20. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






23. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






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






28. 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






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






30. Social traits such as ones cultural background or allegiance that are shared by a human population






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






42. 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






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






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






45. Includes defining goals establishing strategy and developing plans to coordinate activites






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






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






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






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






50. 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