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Management

Subject : business-skills
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1. The view that managers are directly responsible for an organizations success or failure






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






3. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






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






7. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






10. The degree of change and complexity in an organizations enviroment






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






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






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






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






15. 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.






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






17. 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






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






19. 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






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






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






22. 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






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






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






25. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. View that says ethical decisions are made solely on the basis of their outcomes or consequences






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






38. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






39. The manager encourages employees to become actively involved in the decision-making process; authority is decentralised and communication is a two way process.






40. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






41. A boundary less world where goods and services are produced and marketed worlwide






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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







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