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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






3. 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






4. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. Goals - People and Structure






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






25. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






26. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






28. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






29. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






31. 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






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






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






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






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






36. 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






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






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






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






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






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






42. 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






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






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






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






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






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






48. 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






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






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