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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Benefits that provide a wide range of scheduling options and allow employees more flexibility at work accommodating their needs for work-life balance






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






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






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






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






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






7. 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






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






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






10. 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






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






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






13. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






14. 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






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






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






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






18. 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






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






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






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






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






23. 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






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






25. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. 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






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






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






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






37. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. View that says ethical decisions are made in order to respect and protect individual liberties and privileges






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