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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The process of getting things done effectively efficiently through and with other people






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






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






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






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






6. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






8. Goals - People and Structure






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






10. 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






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






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






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






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






15. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






36. 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






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






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






39. 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.






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






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






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






43. A systematic arrangement of people brought together to accomplish some specific purpose






44. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






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






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






48. Employees - customers - unions - social and political action groups - shareholders - competitors - communities - Trade and industry associations - Suppliers - governments - media.






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






50. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations