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






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






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






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






6. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






8. 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






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






10. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






25. Goals - People and Structure






26. 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






27. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






30. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. A structural arrangement for global organizations that eliminates artificial geographical barries






48. 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






49. 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






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