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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Degree to which work is organized around team rather than individuals






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






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






4. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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. 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






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






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






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






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






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






18. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






20. Managers allow employees to take full responsibility for decisions within their areas; authority is decentralised.






21. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






25. 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






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






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






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






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






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






31. 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.






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






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






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






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






36. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. Doing things right or getting the most output from the least amount of inputs






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






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