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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. People who work directly on a job or task and have no responsibility for overseeing the work of others






2. 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






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






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






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






6. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






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






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






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






12. Any type of international company that maintains operations in multiple countries






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






24. Supervisors responsible for directing the day to day activities of non managerial employees






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






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






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






28. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






39. Factors forces situations and events outside the organization that affect its performance






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






41. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






43. 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






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






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






46. 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






47. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






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






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