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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






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






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






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






5. Degree to which employees are expected to exhibit precision analysis and attention to detial






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






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






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






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






10. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






12. 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






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






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






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






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






17. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






19. 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






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






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






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






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






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






25. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






27. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






39. 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






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






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






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






43. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






45. 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






46. 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.






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






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






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






50. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations