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Management
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business-skills
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Includes motivating employees directing the activites of other selecting the most effective communication channel and resolving conflicts
Leading
Utilitarian view of ethics
Attention to detial
Agressiveness
2. View that says ethical decisions are made in order to respect and protect individual liberties and privileges
Controlling
The Persuasive Style
Effectiveness
Rights view of ethics
3. The view that much of an organizations success or failure is due to external forces outside managers control
Social responsibility (corporate social responsibility or CSR)
Transnational (border less) organization
Symbolic view of management
Leading
4. A systematic arrangement of people brought together to accomplish some specific purpose
Organization
Theory of justice view of ethics
Stability
Ethinicity
5. 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
Rights view of ethics
Organizing
Licensing
Race
6. The manager makes all decisions alone - with centralised authority and one-way communication.
Rights view of ethics
Organizing
The Autocratic Style
Multinational corporation (MNC)
7. Specific categories of managerial behavior often grouped around interpersonal relationships information transfer and decision making
Three Characteristics of Organizations
Interpersonal roles
Interpersonal roles
Managerial roles
8. Degree to which managers focus on results or outcomes rather than on how these outcomes are achived
Organizing
Decisional roles
Outcome orientation
Organization stakeholders
9. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator
Decisions roles
Planning
Management levels
Rights view of ethics
10. Individuals who are typically responsible for translating goals set by top managers into specific details that lower-level managers wills see get done
How organizations go global
Middle Managers
Efficency
Organization
11. Doing the right things or completing activities so that organizational goals are attained
Exporting
Effectiveness
Interpersonal roles
Social responsivness
12. The manager encourages employees to become actively involved in the decision-making process; authority is decentralised and communication is a two way process.
Global sourcing
Effectiveness
The Participative Style
Informational roles
13. A structural arrangement for global organizations that eliminates artificial geographical barries
Transnational (border less) organization
External factors
Planning
Technology
14. An agreement in which an organization gives other organization the right for a fee to use its name and operating methods
Franchising
Organizing
Family-friendly benifits
Four Management Functions
15. Autocratic - Persuasive - Consultative - Participative - Laissez-Faire
Utilitarian view of ethics
Social responsivness
Technical skills
Management Styles
16. The view that managers are directly responsible for an organizations success or failure
Managers
Omnipotent view of management
Management Styles
Technical skills
17. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations
Utilitarian view of ethics
Conceptual skills
Informational roles
Decisions roles
18. A managers ability to work with understand mentor and motivate other both individually and in groups
Interpersonal skills
Scientific management
Race
Symbolic view of management
19. The use of scientific methods to define the "one best way" for a job to be done - Frederick Winslow Taylor.
Ethics
Scientific management
Decisional roles
Organizing
20. When employees are connected to satisfied with and enthusiastic about their jobs
The Persuasive Style
Scientific management
Organizing
Employee Engagement
21. Purchasing materials or labor from around the world wherever it is cheapest
Foreign subsidary
How organizations go global
Family-friendly benifits
Global sourcing
22. Entailing making decisions or choices
Global stategic alliance
Decisional roles
Organization
Multi domestic corporation
23. 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
Global corporation
Workforce diveristy
Sustainability
Organizational culture
24. Part-time temporary and contract workers who are available for hire on an as-needed basis
Family-friendly benifits
Contingent workforce
Omnipotent view of management
Rights view of ethics
25. Economic - Global - Political/Legal - Socio cultural - Technological - demographics. In the middle THE ORGANIZATION`
Multi domestic corporation
The Autocratic Style
Ethinicity
Components of the External Environment
26. The number of components in an organizations environment and the extent of knowledge that the organizations has about those components
Exporting
Informational roles
Social responsivness
Environmental complexity
27. A boundary less world where goods and services are produced and marketed worlwide
Global Village
Three Characteristics of Organizations
Global corporation
The Laissez-Faire Style
28. 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
Organizing
Global stategic alliance
Planning
Controlling
29. A specific type of strategic alliance in which the partners agree to form a separate independent organization for some business purpose.
Stakeholders
Joint venture
Multi domestic corporation
Technology
30. Figurehead - leader - liaison
Attention to detial
Scientific management
Interpersonal roles
Global stategic alliance
31. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information
Informational roles
The Laissez-Faire Style
Interpersonal roles
Decisional roles
32. View that says ethical decisions are made solely on the basis of their outcomes or consequences
Organization
Management
Utilitarian view of ethics
People orientation
33. A direct investment in a foreign country that involves setting up a separate and independent facility or office
Top managers
Global sourcing
Foreign subsidary
Workforce diveristy
34. 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
The Consultative Style
Ethics
Scientific management
Small Business
35. Benefits that provide a wide range of scheduling options and allow employees more flexibility at work accommodating their needs for work-life balance
Decisions roles
First-line managers
Family-friendly benifits
Planning
36. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson
Social responsibility (corporate social responsibility or CSR)
Interpersonal skills
Informational roles
Stakeholders
37. The process of getting things done effectively efficiently through and with other people
Middle Managers
Management
Franchising
The Laissez-Faire Style
38. Individuals in an organization who direct the activities of others
Licensing
Managers
Omnipotent view of management
Controlling
39. Making products domestically and selling them abroad
Middle Managers
Exporting
Joint venture
Conceptual skills
40. Job-specific knowledge and techniques needed to perform work tasks
Management
Technology
Small Business
Technical skills
41. Degree to which work is organized around team rather than individuals
Team orientation
Middle Managers
Outcome orientation
Management levels
42. Doing things right or getting the most output from the least amount of inputs
Efficency
Global corporation
Organization stakeholders
Technical skills
43. People who work directly on a job or task and have no responsibility for overseeing the work of others
Ethinicity
Global stategic alliance
Non managerial employees
Environmental uncertainty
44. Degree to which employees are aggressive and competitive rather than cooperative
Exporting
Licensing
Non managerial employees
Agressiveness
45. Involving people (subordinates and persons outside the organization) and other duties that are ceremonial and symbolic in nature
The Persuasive Style
Demographics
Small Business
Interpersonal roles
46. 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
Ethinicity
Organizing
Decisional roles
Interpersonal skills
47. A business firms intention beyond its legal and economic obligations to do the right things act in ways that are good for society
Middle Managers
Organization
Omnipotent view of management
Social responsibility (corporate social responsibility or CSR)
48. Minimal Global investment - Global sourcing- exporting and importing - licensing - franchising - strategic alliance - joint venture - foreign subsidiary. - Significant global investment
Global stategic alliance
Management Styles
How organizations go global
Organization stakeholders
49. The characteristics of a population used for purposes of social stuidies
Demographics
Interpersonal skills
Multinational corporation (MNC)
Effectiveness
50. Supervisors responsible for directing the day to day activities of non managerial employees
Non managerial employees
Technical skills
Omnipotent view of management
First-line managers