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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Social traits such as ones cultural background or allegiance that are shared by a human population






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






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






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






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






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






7. 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.






8. 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






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






10. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. 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






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






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






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






25. 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






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






27. 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






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






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






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






31. Any constituencies in an organizations environment that are affected by that organizations decisions and actions






32. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






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






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






37. Figurehead - leader - liaison






38. When a business firm engages in social actions in response to some popular social need






39. The view that managers are directly responsible for an organizations success or failure






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






41. 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






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






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






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






45. 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






46. 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






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






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






49. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






50. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator