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Management
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business-skills
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Doing things right or getting the most output from the least amount of inputs
Leading
Efficency
Rights view of ethics
Management Styles
2. The shared values principles traditions and ways of doing things that influence the way organizational members act
Social obligation
Top managers
Organizational culture
Organizing
3. Attention to detail - innovation and risk taking - stability - aggressiveness - team orientation - people orientation - outcome orientation.
Dimensions of organizational culture
The Participative Style
Components of the External Environment
The Autocratic Style
4. A structural arrangement for global organizations that eliminates artificial geographical barries
Interpersonal skills
Managers
Transnational (border less) organization
External factors
5. Job-specific knowledge and techniques needed to perform work tasks
Decisions roles
How organizations go global
Technical skills
The Autocratic Style
6. Degree to which employees are expected to exhibit precision analysis and attention to detial
Attention to detial
Efficency
Utilitarian view of ethics
Exporting
7. 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
Controlling
Four Management Functions
Organizing
Multinational corporation (MNC)
8. An MNC that centralizes management and other decisions in the home country
Global corporation
Innovation and risk taking
Three Characteristics of Organizations
Technical skills
9. Individuals who are typically responsible for translating goals set by top managers into specific details that lower-level managers wills see get done
Efficency
Middle Managers
Managers
The Autocratic Style
10. Managers allow employees to take full responsibility for decisions within their areas; authority is decentralised.
The Laissez-Faire Style
Sustainability
Effectiveness
Planning
11. 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
Small Business
Controlling
Global corporation
Race
12. 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.
Interpersonal roles
Stakeholders
Global stategic alliance
Global sourcing
13. Part-time temporary and contract workers who are available for hire on an as-needed basis
Symbolic view of management
Political skills
Ethics
Contingent workforce
14. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator
Controlling
Organizing
Decisions roles
Workforce diveristy
15. An agreement in which an organization gives other organization the right for a fee to use its name and operating methods
Franchising
The Autocratic Style
Social responsibility (corporate social responsibility or CSR)
First-line managers
16. Degree to which employees are encouraged to be innovative and take risks
The Persuasive Style
Global corporation
Conceptual skills
Innovation and risk taking
17. Includes motivating employees directing the activites of other selecting the most effective communication channel and resolving conflicts
Global sourcing
Political skills
External factors
Leading
18. The degree of change and complexity in an organizations enviroment
Small Business
Environmental uncertainty
Utilitarian view of ethics
First-line managers
19. When a business firm engages in social actions because of its obligation to meet certain economic and legal responsibilities
Informational roles
Franchising
Social obligation
Environmental complexity
20. Benefits that provide a wide range of scheduling options and allow employees more flexibility at work accommodating their needs for work-life balance
Organization stakeholders
Decisions roles
Family-friendly benifits
Code of ethics
21. A formal document that states an organizations primary values and the ethical rules its expects managers and non managerial employees to follow
Licensing
Four Management Functions
Code of ethics
Technical skills
22. A specific type of strategic alliance in which the partners agree to form a separate independent organization for some business purpose.
Joint venture
Technology
Outcome orientation
Workforce diveristy
23. Supervisors responsible for directing the day to day activities of non managerial employees
Global stategic alliance
Attention to detial
First-line managers
Non managerial employees
24. 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
Organizing
Global sourcing
Top managers
Organization
25. The characteristics of a population used for purposes of social stuidies
Multinational corporation (MNC)
Contingent workforce
Management
Demographics
26. Autocratic - Persuasive - Consultative - Participative - Laissez-Faire
Middle Managers
Management Styles
Small Business
Social obligation
27. The manager makes decisions alone - but explains the reasons to employees; authority is centralised and communication is one way.
The Laissez-Faire Style
Franchising
The Persuasive Style
Environmental complexity
28. Social traits such as ones cultural background or allegiance that are shared by a human population
Scientific management
Ethinicity
Rights view of ethics
Global Village
29. Involving people (subordinates and persons outside the organization) and other duties that are ceremonial and symbolic in nature
People orientation
Planning
External factors
Interpersonal roles
30. Figurehead - leader - liaison
Environmental uncertainty
Conceptual skills
Interpersonal roles
The Participative Style
31. Specific categories of managerial behavior often grouped around interpersonal relationships information transfer and decision making
Components of the External Environment
Global corporation
Managerial roles
Leading
32. Employees - customers - unions - social and political action groups - shareholders - competitors - communities - Trade and industry associations - Suppliers - governments - media.
Environmental uncertainty
Managers
Joint venture
Organization stakeholders
33. A boundary less world where goods and services are produced and marketed worlwide
Parochiallism
Strong cultures
Global Village
Environmental uncertainty
34. Includes defining goals establishing strategy and developing plans to coordinate activites
Transnational (border less) organization
Planning
Franchising
Symbolic view of management
35. Any equipment tools or operating methods that are designed to make work more efficient
Leading
Technology
Global sourcing
Effectiveness
36. Any type of international company that maintains operations in multiple countries
Components of the External Environment
Rights view of ethics
Multinational corporation (MNC)
Organization
37. Goals - People and Structure
Three Characteristics of Organizations
Organizing
Effectiveness
Outcome orientation
38. Making products domestically and selling them abroad
Organizing
Informational roles
Exporting
First-line managers
39. The biological heritage (including physical characteristics such as ones skin color and associated traits that people use to identify themselves
Political skills
Race
Management levels
Dimensions of organizational culture
40. Economic - Global - Political/Legal - Socio cultural - Technological - demographics. In the middle THE ORGANIZATION`
Dimensions of organizational culture
Ethinicity
Environmental complexity
Components of the External Environment
41. A managers ability to build a power base and establish the right connections
Political skills
Strong cultures
Employee Engagement
Non managerial employees
42. View that says ethical decisions are made solely on the basis of their outcomes or consequences
Utilitarian view of ethics
Three Characteristics of Organizations
Parochiallism
Organizing
43. When a business firm engages in social actions in response to some popular social need
Joint venture
Managers
Social responsivness
Transnational (border less) organization
44. When employees are connected to satisfied with and enthusiastic about their jobs
Contingent workforce
Employee Engagement
Race
Demographics
45. Degree to which work is organized around team rather than individuals
Interpersonal roles
Social obligation
Team orientation
Managers
46. A narrow focus in which managers see thing only through their own eyes and from their own perspective
Global corporation
Global Village
Agressiveness
Parochiallism
47. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information
Social obligation
Social responsibility (corporate social responsibility or CSR)
Informational roles
Managers
48. Degree to which managers focus on results or outcomes rather than on how these outcomes are achived
Agressiveness
Multinational corporation (MNC)
Outcome orientation
People orientation
49. A business firms intention beyond its legal and economic obligations to do the right things act in ways that are good for society
Informational roles
Social responsibility (corporate social responsibility or CSR)
Leading
Strong cultures
50. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.
Leading
Management levels
Outcome orientation
Interpersonal roles