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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A set of rules or principles that defines right and wrong conduct






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






3. 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






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






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






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






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






8. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






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






12. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






13. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






16. 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






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






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






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






20. When employees are connected to satisfied with and enthusiastic about their jobs






21. The view that much of an organizations success or failure is due to external forces outside managers control






22. 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






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






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






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






26. Goals - People and Structure






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






28. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






31. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. Figurehead - leader - liaison






39. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. 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






49. 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






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