Test your basic knowledge |

Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Degree to which managers focus on results or outcomes rather than on how these outcomes are achived






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






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






4. 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






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






6. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






10. Involving people (subordinates and persons outside the organization) and other duties that are ceremonial and symbolic in nature






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. 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






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






32. 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






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






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






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






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






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






38. 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.






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






40. 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






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






42. 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






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






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






45. 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






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






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






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






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






50. Goals - People and Structure