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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A structural arrangement for global organizations that eliminates artificial geographical barries






2. Attention to detail - innovation and risk taking - stability - aggressiveness - team orientation - people orientation - outcome orientation.






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






4. 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






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. Individuals in an organization who direct the activities of others






7. 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






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






9. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






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






14. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






18. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






19. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






20. 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






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






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






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






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






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






26. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






28. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. 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






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






38. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






41. The manager makes all decisions alone - with centralised authority and one-way communication.






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






43. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






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






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






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






49. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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