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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






5. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






9. 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






10. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






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






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






24. A set of rules or principles that defines right and wrong conduct






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






37. 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






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






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






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






41. 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






42. 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






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






44. 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






45. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






46. 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






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






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






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






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