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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. When a business firm engages in social actions because of its obligation to meet certain economic and legal responsibilities






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






4. 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






5. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






8. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. 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






33. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






43. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






45. 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.






46. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






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






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