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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






11. 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






12. Figurehead - leader - liaison






13. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






24. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






25. 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






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






27. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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






45. 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






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






47. 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






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






49. 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






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