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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The use of scientific methods to define the "one best way" for a job to be done - Frederick Winslow Taylor.






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






3. The manager makes all decisions alone - with centralised authority and one-way communication.






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






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






6. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






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






10. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






12. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






13. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






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






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






18. 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






19. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. 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






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






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






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






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






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






34. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






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






38. 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






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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






45. 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






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






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






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






49. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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