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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. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






3. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






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






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






8. 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






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






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






11. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. 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






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






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






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






36. 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.






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






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






39. 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






40. Goals - People and Structure






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






42. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






44. 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






45. 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






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






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






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






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






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