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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Supervisors responsible for directing the day to day activities of non managerial employees






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






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






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






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






6. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






16. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






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






21. 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






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






23. 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






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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






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






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






32. The use of scientific methods to define the "one best way" for a job to be done - Frederick Winslow Taylor.






33. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. A set of rules or principles that defines right and wrong conduct






44. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






47. 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






48. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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