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Management

Subject : business-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The characteristics of a population used for purposes of social stuidies






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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






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






10. 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






11. 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






12. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






24. 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






25. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






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






49. 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






50. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations