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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Goals - People and Structure






2. An MNC that centralizes management and other decisions in the home country






3. 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






4. 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.






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






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






7. 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






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






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






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






11. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






14. 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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Figurehead - leader - liaison






21. Entailing making decisions or choices






22. 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






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






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






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






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






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






28. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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






41. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






44. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






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






48. 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






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






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