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Management

Subject : business-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A structural arrangement for global organizations that eliminates artificial geographical barries






2. 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






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






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






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






6. 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






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






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






9. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






12. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






13. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






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






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






33. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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






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






45. 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






46. 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






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






48. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






50. 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