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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An MNC that decentralizes management and other decisions to the local country where its doing business






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






3. Job-specific knowledge and techniques needed to perform work tasks






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






5. 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






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






7. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. 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






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






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






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






18. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






19. Degree to which managers focus on results or outcomes rather than on how these outcomes are achived






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






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






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






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






25. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






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






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






31. 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






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






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






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






35. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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






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






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






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






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






48. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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