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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Attention to detail - innovation and risk taking - stability - aggressiveness - team orientation - people orientation - outcome orientation.






2. 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






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






4. 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.






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






6. An MNC that centralizes management and other decisions in the home country






7. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






21. 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






22. A structural arrangement for global organizations that eliminates artificial geographical barries






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






24. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






28. 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






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






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






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






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






33. The characteristics of a population used for purposes of social stuidies






34. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






35. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






44. When a business firm engages in social actions because of its obligation to meet certain economic and legal responsibilities






45. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






48. 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






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






50. Making products domestically and selling them abroad