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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






3. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






7. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






11. 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






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






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






14. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






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






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






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






20. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






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






32. 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.






33. 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






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






35. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






38. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. 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






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