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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The manager makes decisions alone - but explains the reasons to employees; authority is centralised and communication is one way.






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






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






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. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






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






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






10. 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






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






12. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






14. Doing things right or getting the most output from the least amount of inputs






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






16. 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






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






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






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






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






21. 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






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






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






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






25. 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






26. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






28. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






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






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






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






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






34. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






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






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






39. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






42. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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