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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






3. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






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






7. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






10. Degree to which management decision take into account the effects on people in the organization






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






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






13. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. 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






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






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






26. 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






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






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






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






30. 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






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






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






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






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






35. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






48. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






50. 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