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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When employees are connected to satisfied with and enthusiastic about their jobs






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






3. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






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






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






9. 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






10. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






20. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






21. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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






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






31. 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






32. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






33. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






34. 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






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






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






37. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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






44. 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






45. Degree to which management decision take into account the effects on people in the organization






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






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






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






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






50. 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