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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






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






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






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






7. 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.






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






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






11. Degree to which employees are expected to exhibit precision analysis and attention to detial






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






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






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






25. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






28. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






30. A companys ability to achieve its business goals and increase long-term shareholder value by integrating economic - environmental and social opportunities into its business strategies






31. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






32. 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






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






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






35. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






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






39. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






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






42. Degree to which work is organized around team rather than individuals






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






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






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






46. 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






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






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






49. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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