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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






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






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






4. 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






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






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






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






8. Figurehead - leader - liaison






9. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. 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






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