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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






2. 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.






3. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






5. 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






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






7. 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






8. 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






9. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






13. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. Whether to impose external controls or allow employees to control their own actions - What criteria should be emphasized in employee performance evaluations - What repercussions will occur from exceeding ones budget






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






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






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






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






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






28. Figurehead - leader - liaison






29. An MNC that centralizes management and other decisions in the home country






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






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






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






33. 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






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






35. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






44. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






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






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






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






50. 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