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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Degree to which work is organized around team rather than individuals






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






3. Goals - People and Structure






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






5. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






14. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






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






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






18. 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






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






20. Entailing making decisions or choices






21. 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






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






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






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






25. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






26. 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






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






28. 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






29. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






35. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






36. 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






37. 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






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






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






40. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






42. 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






43. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






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






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






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






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