Test your basic knowledge |

Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Specific categories of managerial behavior often grouped around interpersonal relationships information transfer and decision making






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






3. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






6. Minimal Global investment - Global sourcing- exporting and importing - licensing - franchising - strategic alliance - joint venture - foreign subsidiary. - Significant global investment






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






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






30. 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






31. Entailing making decisions or choices






32. 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






33. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






36. View that says ethical decisions are made in order to respect and protect individual liberties and privileges






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






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






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






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






41. 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






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






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






44. Degree to which management decision take into account the effects on people in the organization






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






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






47. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






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