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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Individuals who are typically responsible for translating goals set by top managers into specific details that lower-level managers wills see get done






2. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






5. 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.






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






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






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






9. 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






10. 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






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






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






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






14. Benefits that provide a wide range of scheduling options and allow employees more flexibility at work accommodating their needs for work-life balance






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






22. 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






23. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






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






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






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






29. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. 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






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






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