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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Degree to which employees are encouraged to be innovative and take risks






2. 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






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






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






5. The degree to which managers are concerned with increasing employee job satisfaction - What leadership styles are appropriate - Whether all disagreements--even constructive ones--should be eliminated






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






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






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






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






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






11. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. 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






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






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






21. 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






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






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






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






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






26. 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






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






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






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






30. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






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






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






43. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






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






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






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






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