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Management

Subject : business-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An MNC that centralizes management and other decisions in the home country






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






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






4. 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






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






6. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






8. 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.






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






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






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






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






13. 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






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






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






16. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






18. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. 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






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






35. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






49. 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






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