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Management

Subject : business-skills
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1. View that says ethical decisions are made solely on the basis of their outcomes or consequences






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






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






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






5. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






8. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






32. 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






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






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






35. Economic - Global - Political/Legal - Socio cultural - Technological - demographics. In the middle THE ORGANIZATION`






36. 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






37. 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






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






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






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






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






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






43. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






45. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






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






49. 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






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







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