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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When a business firm engages in social actions because of its obligation to meet certain economic and legal responsibilities






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. 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






4. 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






5. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






25. A formal document that states an organizations primary values and the ethical rules its expects managers and non managerial employees to follow






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. 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






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






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






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






49. 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.






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