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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Involving people (subordinates and persons outside the organization) and other duties that are ceremonial and symbolic in nature






2. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






24. 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






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






26. 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






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






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






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






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






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






32. Supervisors responsible for directing the day to day activities of non managerial employees






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






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






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






36. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






38. 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






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






40. 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.






41. 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






42. 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






43. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






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






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






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






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






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