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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Factors forces situations and events outside the organization that affect its performance






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. 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






13. Goals - People and Structure






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






15. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






17. 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






18. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. The number of components in an organizations environment and the extent of knowledge that the organizations has about those components






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






34. 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.






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






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






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






38. 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






39. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






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






43. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. The view that managers are directly responsible for an organizations success or failure