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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Includes motivating employees directing the activites of other selecting the most effective communication channel and resolving conflicts






2. A structural arrangement for global organizations that eliminates artificial geographical barries






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. 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.






11. Whether to impose external controls or allow employees to control their own actions - What criteria should be emphasized in employee performance evaluations - What repercussions will occur from exceeding ones budget






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






13. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






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






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






19. 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






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






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






22. 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






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






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






25. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






34. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. 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






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






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






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






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






46. Supervisors responsible for directing the day to day activities of non managerial employees






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






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






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






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