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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The manager makes decisions alone - but explains the reasons to employees; authority is centralised and communication is one way.






2. 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






3. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






4. 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






5. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






19. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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. 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






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






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






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






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






37. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






38. 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






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






40. Goals - People and Structure






41. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






44. 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






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






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






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






48. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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. Degree to which organizational decisions and actions emphasize maintaining the status quo