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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. View that says ethical decisions are made solely on the basis of their outcomes or consequences






2. 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






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






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






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






6. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






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






11. 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






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






13. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






15. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






40. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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