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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The manager encourages employees to become actively involved in the decision-making process; authority is decentralised and communication is a two way process.






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






3. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






5. Degree to which organizational decisions and actions emphasize maintaining the status quo






6. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






8. A boundary less world where goods and services are produced and marketed worlwide






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






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






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






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. 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






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






15. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






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






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






21. 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






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






23. 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






24. An agreement in which an organization gives other organization the right for a fee to use its name and operating methods






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






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






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






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






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






30. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






32. 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






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






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






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






36. An MNC that decentralizes management and other decisions to the local country where its doing business






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






38. Figurehead - leader - liaison






39. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






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






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