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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When a business firm engages in social actions in response to some popular social need






2. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






3. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






13. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






14. 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






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






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






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






18. 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






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






20. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






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






25. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






26. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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