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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An MNC that decentralizes management and other decisions to the local country where its doing business






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






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






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






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






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






7. 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






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






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






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






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






12. 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






13. Job-specific knowledge and techniques needed to perform work tasks






14. Entailing making decisions or choices






15. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






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






19. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






21. 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






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






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






24. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






25. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






31. 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






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






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






34. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. 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






47. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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