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Test your basic knowledge |

Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A set of rules or principles that defines right and wrong conduct






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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






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






10. 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






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






12. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






13. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






15. When a business firm engages in social actions in response to some popular social need






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






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






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






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






20. Degree to which employees are aggressive and competitive rather than cooperative






21. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






23. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






24. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. Degree to which employees are encouraged to be innovative and take risks






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






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






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






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






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






45. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






48. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






50. 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






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