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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Doing the right things or completing activities so that organizational goals are attained






2. 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






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






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






5. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






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






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






12. 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.






13. Goals - People and Structure






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






15. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






17. 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






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






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






20. 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






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






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






23. 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






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






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






26. 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






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






28. 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






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






30. 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






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






32. Factors forces situations and events outside the organization that affect its performance






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






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






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






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






37. 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






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






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






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






41. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






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






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






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






47. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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