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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Includes defining goals establishing strategy and developing plans to coordinate activites






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






3. 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






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






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






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






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






8. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






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






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






13. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. 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






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






30. 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






31. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






33. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






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






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






44. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






45. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






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






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






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