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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. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






2. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. Figurehead - leader - liaison






10. 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






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






12. 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






13. 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.






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






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






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






17. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. 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






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






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






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






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






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