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Management

Subject : business-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The use of scientific methods to define the "one best way" for a job to be done - Frederick Winslow Taylor.






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






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






4. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






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






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






8. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






11. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






13. 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






14. 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






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






16. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. 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






28. 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






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






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






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






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






33. 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






34. 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






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






36. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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