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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Degree to which organizational decisions and actions emphasize maintaining the status quo






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. 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






15. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. 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






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






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






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






34. 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






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






36. 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






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






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






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






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






41. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






44. 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






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






46. Goals - People and Structure






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. The degree of change and complexity in an organizations enviroment






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






50. Figurehead - leader - liaison