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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 20 minutes. 2 minutes extra for reading the instructions.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. View that says ethical decisions are made solely on the basis of their outcomes or consequences






2. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. 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






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






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






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






16. 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






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






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






19. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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






30. 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






31. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






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






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






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






37. 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






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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






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






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






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






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






48. 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






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






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