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






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






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






4. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






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






8. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






9. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. 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






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






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






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






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






23. 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.






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






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






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






27. 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






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






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






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






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






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






33. 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






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






35. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






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






40. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






43. 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






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






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






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






47. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






49. 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






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