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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






3. A business firms intention beyond its legal and economic obligations to do the right things act in ways that are good for society






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. View that says ethical decisions are made in order to enforce rules fairly and impartially






22. 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






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






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






25. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. 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.






38. 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






39. 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






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






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






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






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






44. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






45. 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






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






47. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






49. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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