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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • 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






2. 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






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






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






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






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






7. When a business firm engages in social actions in response to some popular social need






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






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






10. 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






11. 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






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






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






14. 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






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






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






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






18. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






37. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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






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






45. Includes defining goals establishing strategy and developing plans to coordinate activites






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






47. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






50. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson