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1. Any constituencies in an organizations environment that are affected by that organizations decisions and actions
Interpersonal skills
Controlling
Stakeholders
The Autocratic Style
2. Benefits that provide a wide range of scheduling options and allow employees more flexibility at work accommodating their needs for work-life balance
Interpersonal skills
Family-friendly benifits
The Autocratic Style
Scientific management
3. Degree to which employees are encouraged to be innovative and take risks
Innovation and risk taking
Team orientation
Parochiallism
Political skills
4. The view that much of an organizations success or failure is due to external forces outside managers control
Political skills
Effectiveness
Exporting
Symbolic view of management
5. A managers ability to build a power base and establish the right connections
Political skills
Four Management Functions
Stakeholders
Planning
6. Factors forces situations and events outside the organization that affect its performance
Symbolic view of management
Decisions roles
The Participative Style
External factors
7. A set of rules or principles that defines right and wrong conduct
Top managers
Efficency
Ethics
Environmental complexity
8. Economic - Global - Political/Legal - Socio cultural - Technological - demographics. In the middle THE ORGANIZATION`
Components of the External Environment
Management Styles
Top managers
Ethinicity
9. Individuals in an organization who direct the activities of others
Global stategic alliance
Effectiveness
Managers
Demographics
10. A boundary less world where goods and services are produced and marketed worlwide
Social responsibility (corporate social responsibility or CSR)
The Autocratic Style
Effectiveness
Global Village
11. The manager makes decisions alone - but explains the reasons to employees; authority is centralised and communication is one way.
The Persuasive Style
Agressiveness
Utilitarian view of ethics
Innovation and risk taking
12. Degree to which employees are expected to exhibit precision analysis and attention to detial
Attention to detial
Management
Global stategic alliance
Top managers
13. A structural arrangement for global organizations that eliminates artificial geographical barries
Non managerial employees
Demographics
Transnational (border less) organization
Organizing
14. The manager makes the final decision after gaining feedback from stakeholders; authority is still somewhat centralised; communication is a two way process.
Interpersonal roles
Foreign subsidary
The Consultative Style
Stability
15. Job-specific knowledge and techniques needed to perform work tasks
Four Management Functions
Ethics
Technical skills
The Autocratic Style
16. Degree to which managers focus on results or outcomes rather than on how these outcomes are achived
Team orientation
Outcome orientation
Sustainability
Utilitarian view of ethics
17. Supervisors responsible for directing the day to day activities of non managerial employees
Demographics
The Persuasive Style
Managers
First-line managers
18. 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
Organization
Demographics
Licensing
Global stategic alliance
19. 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
Franchising
The Persuasive Style
Organizing
Transnational (border less) organization
20. 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
Global corporation
Informational roles
Decisional roles
Organizing
21. Attention to detail - innovation and risk taking - stability - aggressiveness - team orientation - people orientation - outcome orientation.
Controlling
Non managerial employees
Dimensions of organizational culture
Global corporation
22. Social traits such as ones cultural background or allegiance that are shared by a human population
Informational roles
Management
Stakeholders
Ethinicity
23. The view that managers are directly responsible for an organizations success or failure
Omnipotent view of management
Middle Managers
Interpersonal roles
Parochiallism
24. A business firms intention beyond its legal and economic obligations to do the right things act in ways that are good for society
Environmental complexity
Social responsibility (corporate social responsibility or CSR)
Family-friendly benifits
Team orientation
25. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information
The Persuasive Style
Organization
Strong cultures
Informational roles
26. Planning - Organizing - Leading - Controlling Middle ACHIEVING THE ORGANIZATIONS STATES PURPOSE.
Decisions roles
Joint venture
Three Characteristics of Organizations
Four Management Functions
27. Part-time temporary and contract workers who are available for hire on an as-needed basis
Environmental uncertainty
Organizing
Environmental complexity
Contingent workforce
28. The use of scientific methods to define the "one best way" for a job to be done - Frederick Winslow Taylor.
Organization stakeholders
Workforce diveristy
Scientific management
Managers
29. Goals - People and Structure
The Persuasive Style
Code of ethics
Technology
Three Characteristics of Organizations
30. A narrow focus in which managers see thing only through their own eyes and from their own perspective
Social obligation
Parochiallism
Organizing
Leading
31. An MNC that centralizes management and other decisions in the home country
Foreign subsidary
Global corporation
Attention to detial
Management levels
32. Making products domestically and selling them abroad
Exporting
Interpersonal skills
Sustainability
Attention to detial
33. Degree to which employees are aggressive and competitive rather than cooperative
Parochiallism
Agressiveness
Exporting
Multinational corporation (MNC)
34. Any type of international company that maintains operations in multiple countries
Multinational corporation (MNC)
Environmental uncertainty
Parochiallism
Omnipotent view of management
35. The shared values principles traditions and ways of doing things that influence the way organizational members act
Managers
Team orientation
Organizational culture
Outcome orientation
36. The manager encourages employees to become actively involved in the decision-making process; authority is decentralised and communication is a two way process.
Outcome orientation
Licensing
The Participative Style
Stability
37. Doing things right or getting the most output from the least amount of inputs
How organizations go global
Efficency
Demographics
Utilitarian view of ethics
38. Includes defining goals establishing strategy and developing plans to coordinate activites
Race
Planning
Outcome orientation
Non managerial employees
39. A direct investment in a foreign country that involves setting up a separate and independent facility or office
Organization stakeholders
Social responsibility (corporate social responsibility or CSR)
Organizing
Foreign subsidary
40. When a business firm engages in social actions in response to some popular social need
Social responsivness
Ethics
Multi domestic corporation
Omnipotent view of management
41. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically
Four Management Functions
Managerial roles
Top managers
Importing
42. When a business firm engages in social actions because of its obligation to meet certain economic and legal responsibilities
Decisions roles
Importing
Social obligation
Managerial roles
43. Managers allow employees to take full responsibility for decisions within their areas; authority is decentralised.
The Laissez-Faire Style
Social obligation
Three Characteristics of Organizations
Decisional roles
44. An MNC that decentralizes management and other decisions to the local country where its doing business
Political skills
Environmental uncertainty
Multi domestic corporation
Parochiallism
45. Autocratic - Persuasive - Consultative - Participative - Laissez-Faire
Team orientation
Management Styles
Decisions roles
Environmental uncertainty
46. The manager makes all decisions alone - with centralised authority and one-way communication.
Code of ethics
Components of the External Environment
Political skills
The Autocratic Style
47. The degree of change and complexity in an organizations enviroment
Interpersonal skills
People orientation
Managerial roles
Environmental uncertainty
48. 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
Exporting
Leading
Workforce diveristy
External factors
49. The characteristics of a population used for purposes of social stuidies
Demographics
Importing
Foreign subsidary
Family-friendly benifits
50. Involving people (subordinates and persons outside the organization) and other duties that are ceremonial and symbolic in nature
Interpersonal roles
Organizational culture
Global Village
Conceptual skills
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