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Management

Subject : business-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Degree to which work is organized around team rather than individuals






2. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






6. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






9. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






13. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






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






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






17. 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






18. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






21. An MNC that centralizes management and other decisions in the home country






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






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






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






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






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






27. 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






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






29. 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






30. 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






31. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






33. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






34. 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






35. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. Goals - People and Structure






43. 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






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






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






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






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






48. 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






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






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