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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The number of components in an organizations environment and the extent of knowledge that the organizations has about those components






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






3. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






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






7. 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






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






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






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






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






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






13. 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






14. Goals - People and Structure






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






16. 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






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






18. 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






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






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






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






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






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






24. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






27. 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.






28. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






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






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






32. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. 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