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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The characteristics of a population used for purposes of social stuidies






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






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






4. 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






5. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






11. 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






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






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






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






15. 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






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






17. 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






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






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






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






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






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






23. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






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






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






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






29. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






32. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






35. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






38. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






41. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






44. 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






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






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






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






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






49. 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






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