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Management

Subject : business-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Supervisors responsible for directing the day to day activities of non managerial employees






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






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






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






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






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






7. 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






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






9. 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






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






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






12. 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






13. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






14. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






15. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






17. 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






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






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






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






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






22. 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






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






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






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






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






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






28. 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






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






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






31. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






33. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. A managers ability to build a power base and establish the right connections






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






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






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






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






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






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






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