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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Planning - Organizing - Leading - Controlling Middle ACHIEVING THE ORGANIZATIONS STATES PURPOSE.






2. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. 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






11. 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






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






13. 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






14. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






16. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






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






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






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






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






22. 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






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






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






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






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






27. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






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






31. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






34. 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






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






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






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






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






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






40. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. 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






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






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