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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Managers allow employees to take full responsibility for decisions within their areas; authority is decentralised.






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






3. 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.






4. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






5. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






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






21. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






24. 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






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






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






27. An agreement in which an organization gives other organization the right for a fee to use its name and operating methods






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. 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






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






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






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






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