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Management

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






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






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






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






5. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






7. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






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






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






12. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






13. Figurehead - leader - liaison






14. 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






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






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






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






18. 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






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






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






21. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






22. 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






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






24. 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






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






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






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






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






29. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. 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