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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Individuals who are responsible for making decisions about the direction of the organization and establishing policies that affect all organizational memebers






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






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






4. 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






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






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






7. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. Figurehead - leader - liaison






22. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






24. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






26. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






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






31. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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






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






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






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






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






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






45. 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






46. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






47. 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






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






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






50. 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