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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Includes monitoring performance comparing it with goals and correcting any significant deviations






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






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






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






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






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






7. 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






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






9. 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






10. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






13. 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






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






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






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






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






18. 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






19. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






20. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. 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






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






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






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






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






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






34. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






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






39. Cultures in which the key values are deeply held and widely shared






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






41. 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.






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






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






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






45. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






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






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