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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The manager makes decisions alone - but explains the reasons to employees; authority is centralised and communication is one way.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. 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






10. 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






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






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






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






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






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






16. 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






17. 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.






18. 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






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






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






21. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






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






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






26. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






36. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






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






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






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






42. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






44. 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






45. 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






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






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






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






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






50. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson