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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






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






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






16. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






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






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






20. When a business firm engages in social actions in response to some popular social need






21. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. 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






35. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






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






40. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. 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






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






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






50. 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