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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When employees are connected to satisfied with and enthusiastic about their jobs






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






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






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






5. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. 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






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






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






25. 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






26. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






28. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. Goals - People and Structure






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






50. 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