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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The degree of change and complexity in an organizations enviroment






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






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






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






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






6. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






19. Any constituencies in an organizations environment that are affected by that organizations decisions and actions






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






21. 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






22. 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






23. 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






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






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






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






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






28. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






29. Goals - People and Structure






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






31. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






33. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






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






37. 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.






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






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






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






41. A narrow focus in which managers see thing only through their own eyes and from their own perspective






42. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






43. 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






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






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






46. Part-time temporary and contract workers who are available for hire on an as-needed basis






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






48. 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






49. 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






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