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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Planning - Organizing - Leading - Controlling Middle ACHIEVING THE ORGANIZATIONS STATES PURPOSE.






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






3. A managers ability to build a power base and establish the right connections






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






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






6. Entailing making decisions or choices






7. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






10. Figurehead - leader - liaison






11. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






13. 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






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






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






16. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. The manager makes the final decision after gaining feedback from stakeholders; authority is still somewhat centralised; communication is a two way process.






24. 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






25. Any constituencies in an organizations environment that are affected by that organizations decisions and actions






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






27. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






30. 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






31. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. Includes motivating employees directing the activites of other selecting the most effective communication channel and resolving conflicts