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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Planning - Organizing - Leading - Controlling Middle ACHIEVING THE ORGANIZATIONS STATES PURPOSE.






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






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






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






5. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






8. 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.






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






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






11. 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






12. 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






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






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






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






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






17. 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






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






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






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






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






22. 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






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






24. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






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






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






39. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






41. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






44. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






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






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






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






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