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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Attention to detail - innovation and risk taking - stability - aggressiveness - team orientation - people orientation - outcome orientation.






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






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






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






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






6. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






7. 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.






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






9. 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






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






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






12. 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






13. Individuals who are responsible for making decisions about the direction of the organization and establishing policies that affect all organizational memebers






14. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






16. 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






17. Entailing making decisions or choices






18. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






20. 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






21. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






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






33. 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






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






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






36. 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






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






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






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






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






41. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






44. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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