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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When a business firm engages in social actions because of its obligation to meet certain economic and legal responsibilities






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






3. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






4. 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






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






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






7. Entailing making decisions or choices






8. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






18. Cultures in which the key values are deeply held and widely shared






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






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






21. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






24. 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






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






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






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






28. 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






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






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






31. 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.






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






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






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






36. 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






37. 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






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






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






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






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






42. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






45. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






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






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






50. The number of components in an organizations environment and the extent of knowledge that the organizations has about those components