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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A narrow focus in which managers see thing only through their own eyes and from their own perspective






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






3. 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






4. 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






5. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






7. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






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






10. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






11. 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






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






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






14. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






17. 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






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






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






20. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






21. 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






22. 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






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






24. Goals - People and Structure






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






26. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






47. 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.






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






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






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