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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Goals - People and Structure






2. 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






3. Any type of international company that maintains operations in multiple countries






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






5. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. 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






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






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






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






18. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






20. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






44. 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






45. 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






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






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






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






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






50. Entailing making decisions or choices