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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Degree to which employees are expected to exhibit precision analysis and attention to detial






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






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






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






5. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






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






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






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






11. 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






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






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






14. Figurehead - leader - liaison






15. An agreement in which an organization gives another the right for a fee to make or sell its products using its technology or product specifications






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






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






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






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






20. 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






21. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






23. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






26. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






42. 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






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






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






45. 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






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






47. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






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