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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






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






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






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






5. 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






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






7. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






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






11. 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






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






13. 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






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






15. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. 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






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






28. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






29. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






30. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. 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






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






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






40. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






41. Planning - Organizing - Leading - Controlling Middle ACHIEVING THE ORGANIZATIONS STATES PURPOSE.






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






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






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






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






46. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






47. 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






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






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






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