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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






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






3. Goals - People and Structure






4. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






6. 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






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






8. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






9. 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






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






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






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






13. 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.






14. 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






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






16. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






36. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. 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






50. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.