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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. View that says ethical decisions are made in order to respect and protect individual liberties and privileges






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






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






4. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






7. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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






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






31. 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






32. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






33. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






35. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






38. 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






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






40. 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






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






42. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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