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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. 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






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






19. 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






20. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






22. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






25. 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






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






27. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






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






32. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






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






49. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






50. Making products domestically and selling them abroad