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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An MNC that centralizes management and other decisions in the home country






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






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






4. Part-time temporary and contract workers who are available for hire on an as-needed basis






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






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






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






8. 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






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






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






11. 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






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






13. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






15. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






18. 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






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






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






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






22. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






24. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






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






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






44. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






46. 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.






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






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






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






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