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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






2. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






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






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






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






15. 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






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






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






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






19. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






22. 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






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






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






25. The manager encourages employees to become actively involved in the decision-making process; authority is decentralised and communication is a two way process.






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






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






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






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






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






31. 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






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






33. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






34. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






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






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






38. 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






39. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. 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