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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Supervisors responsible for directing the day to day activities of non managerial employees






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






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






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






5. Includes monitoring performance comparing it with goals and correcting any significant deviations






6. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. 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






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






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






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






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






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






26. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






28. 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.






29. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






31. 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






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






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






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






35. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






38. Entailing making decisions or choices






39. 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






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






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






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






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






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






46. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






49. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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