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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. 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






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






24. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






26. 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






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






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






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






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






31. 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.






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






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






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






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






36. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






39. 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






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






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






42. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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