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Management
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business-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The process of getting things done effectively efficiently through and with other people
Code of ethics
Management
Management levels
Scientific management
2. The degree of change and complexity in an organizations enviroment
Environmental uncertainty
Informational roles
Agressiveness
Dimensions of organizational culture
3. Includes monitoring performance comparing it with goals and correcting any significant deviations
Organizational culture
Social obligation
Controlling
Managerial roles
4. 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
Organizing
Race
Joint venture
Symbolic view of management
5. The biological heritage (including physical characteristics such as ones skin color and associated traits that people use to identify themselves
Race
Planning
Managers
People orientation
6. A set of rules or principles that defines right and wrong conduct
Middle Managers
Organizational culture
Ethics
Global Village
7. Degree to which employees are aggressive and competitive rather than cooperative
Agressiveness
Stability
Social responsivness
Theory of justice view of ethics
8. Employees - customers - unions - social and political action groups - shareholders - competitors - communities - Trade and industry associations - Suppliers - governments - media.
Global stategic alliance
Components of the External Environment
Organization stakeholders
Organizing
9. View that says ethical decisions are made in order to enforce rules fairly and impartially
Theory of justice view of ethics
Global corporation
Managerial roles
Components of the External Environment
10. An MNC that centralizes management and other decisions in the home country
Global corporation
Strong cultures
Exporting
Parochiallism
11. Planning - Organizing - Leading - Controlling Middle ACHIEVING THE ORGANIZATIONS STATES PURPOSE.
Four Management Functions
Political skills
Interpersonal roles
Controlling
12. Making products domestically and selling them abroad
Planning
Theory of justice view of ethics
Exporting
Small Business
13. Job-specific knowledge and techniques needed to perform work tasks
Race
The Autocratic Style
Workforce diveristy
Technical skills
14. The number of components in an organizations environment and the extent of knowledge that the organizations has about those components
Environmental complexity
Utilitarian view of ethics
Symbolic view of management
Technology
15. Individuals who are responsible for making decisions about the direction of the organization and establishing policies that affect all organizational memebers
The Autocratic Style
Exporting
Top managers
Organization
16. Factors forces situations and events outside the organization that affect its performance
Scientific management
Team orientation
Controlling
External factors
17. When a business firm engages in social actions because of its obligation to meet certain economic and legal responsibilities
Attention to detial
People orientation
Social obligation
Code of ethics
18. Entailing making decisions or choices
Decisional roles
Interpersonal roles
External factors
Utilitarian view of ethics
19. The use of scientific methods to define the "one best way" for a job to be done - Frederick Winslow Taylor.
Interpersonal skills
Strong cultures
Leading
Scientific management
20. The manager makes the final decision after gaining feedback from stakeholders; authority is still somewhat centralised; communication is a two way process.
Social obligation
Attention to detial
Management levels
The Consultative Style
21. 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.
Conceptual skills
Global stategic alliance
Symbolic view of management
Theory of justice view of ethics
22. An MNC that decentralizes management and other decisions to the local country where its doing business
Informational roles
Four Management Functions
Agressiveness
Multi domestic corporation
23. Minimal Global investment - Global sourcing- exporting and importing - licensing - franchising - strategic alliance - joint venture - foreign subsidiary. - Significant global investment
How organizations go global
Innovation and risk taking
Employee Engagement
Organizing
24. 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
Managerial roles
Leading
Stakeholders
People orientation
25. A specific type of strategic alliance in which the partners agree to form a separate independent organization for some business purpose.
Components of the External Environment
Ethics
The Participative Style
Joint venture
26. Doing the right things or completing activities so that organizational goals are attained
Joint venture
Effectiveness
Importing
Multi domestic corporation
27. Includes motivating employees directing the activites of other selecting the most effective communication channel and resolving conflicts
Controlling
First-line managers
Leading
Team orientation
28. Attention to detail - innovation and risk taking - stability - aggressiveness - team orientation - people orientation - outcome orientation.
Components of the External Environment
Dimensions of organizational culture
Employee Engagement
Management levels
29. The manager encourages employees to become actively involved in the decision-making process; authority is decentralised and communication is a two way process.
Race
Exporting
Management levels
The Participative Style
30. An agreement in which an organization gives other organization the right for a fee to use its name and operating methods
Organizing
Franchising
Effectiveness
Stakeholders
31. Benefits that provide a wide range of scheduling options and allow employees more flexibility at work accommodating their needs for work-life balance
Agressiveness
Small Business
Family-friendly benifits
Code of ethics
32. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson
Informational roles
Global stategic alliance
Managerial roles
Technology
33. Social traits such as ones cultural background or allegiance that are shared by a human population
Non managerial employees
Top managers
Ethinicity
Symbolic view of management
34. Degree to which employees are expected to exhibit precision analysis and attention to detial
Leading
Attention to detial
Demographics
Organizing
35. The shared values principles traditions and ways of doing things that influence the way organizational members act
Organizational culture
Demographics
Components of the External Environment
Planning
36. View that says ethical decisions are made in order to respect and protect individual liberties and privileges
Interpersonal roles
Licensing
Rights view of ethics
Organizing
37. 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
Planning
Components of the External Environment
Workforce diveristy
Family-friendly benifits
38. Any equipment tools or operating methods that are designed to make work more efficient
The Participative Style
Technology
Attention to detial
Symbolic view of management
39. Includes defining goals establishing strategy and developing plans to coordinate activites
Stakeholders
Contingent workforce
Social responsivness
Planning
40. When employees are connected to satisfied with and enthusiastic about their jobs
Employee Engagement
Organization stakeholders
Four Management Functions
Attention to detial
41. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.
Four Management Functions
Management levels
Demographics
Scientific management
42. Purchasing materials or labor from around the world wherever it is cheapest
Global sourcing
Controlling
Exporting
Strong cultures
43. 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
Parochiallism
Political skills
Licensing
People orientation
44. Involving people (subordinates and persons outside the organization) and other duties that are ceremonial and symbolic in nature
Race
Sustainability
Interpersonal roles
Foreign subsidary
45. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations
Rights view of ethics
Organizational culture
Conceptual skills
Sustainability
46. 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
Exporting
Informational roles
Small Business
Utilitarian view of ethics
47. The view that much of an organizations success or failure is due to external forces outside managers control
Organization
Licensing
Symbolic view of management
Ethics
48. Degree to which managers focus on results or outcomes rather than on how these outcomes are achived
Outcome orientation
Social obligation
Agressiveness
Parochiallism
49. The manager makes all decisions alone - with centralised authority and one-way communication.
The Autocratic Style
Planning
Four Management Functions
Interpersonal skills
50. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information
Organization
Informational roles
Demographics
Interpersonal roles