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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Includes defining goals establishing strategy and developing plans to coordinate activites






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






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






4. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






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






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






10. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






12. 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






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






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






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






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






17. 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






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






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






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






21. Figurehead - leader - liaison






22. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. 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.






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






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






36. 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






37. 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






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






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






40. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






43. 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






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






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






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






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






48. 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






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






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