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Management
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business-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Any equipment tools or operating methods that are designed to make work more efficient
Agressiveness
Controlling
Exporting
Technology
2. A direct investment in a foreign country that involves setting up a separate and independent facility or office
Global Village
People orientation
Outcome orientation
Foreign subsidary
3. Job-specific knowledge and techniques needed to perform work tasks
Technical skills
Management Styles
Importing
Interpersonal skills
4. The characteristics of a population used for purposes of social stuidies
Social responsibility (corporate social responsibility or CSR)
Transnational (border less) organization
Rights view of ethics
Demographics
5. 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
Sustainability
Stability
Joint venture
Multi domestic corporation
6. 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.
Team orientation
Small Business
The Persuasive Style
Global stategic alliance
7. Planning - Organizing - Leading - Controlling Middle ACHIEVING THE ORGANIZATIONS STATES PURPOSE.
Ethics
Four Management Functions
Leading
Attention to detial
8. Purchasing materials or labor from around the world wherever it is cheapest
Decisions roles
Interpersonal roles
Scientific management
Global sourcing
9. Doing the right things or completing activities so that organizational goals are attained
Informational roles
Theory of justice view of ethics
Effectiveness
Multinational corporation (MNC)
10. Making products domestically and selling them abroad
Effectiveness
Multinational corporation (MNC)
Exporting
Importing
11. View that says ethical decisions are made in order to respect and protect individual liberties and privileges
Leading
Transnational (border less) organization
Rights view of ethics
Foreign subsidary
12. Degree to which employees are encouraged to be innovative and take risks
Outcome orientation
Middle Managers
Innovation and risk taking
How organizations go global
13. Doing things right or getting the most output from the least amount of inputs
Efficency
Symbolic view of management
Team orientation
Social responsibility (corporate social responsibility or CSR)
14. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information
Controlling
Technology
Political skills
Informational roles
15. Cultures in which the key values are deeply held and widely shared
Four Management Functions
Foreign subsidary
Strong cultures
Attention to detial
16. Any constituencies in an organizations environment that are affected by that organizations decisions and actions
Ethics
Informational roles
Foreign subsidary
Stakeholders
17. When a business firm engages in social actions because of its obligation to meet certain economic and legal responsibilities
Managers
Social obligation
Team orientation
Ethinicity
18. A set of rules or principles that defines right and wrong conduct
Omnipotent view of management
Workforce diveristy
Ethics
Organizing
19. The process of getting things done effectively efficiently through and with other people
Management
Race
Organizing
Transnational (border less) organization
20. Any type of international company that maintains operations in multiple countries
Decisions roles
The Autocratic Style
Multinational corporation (MNC)
External factors
21. The use of scientific methods to define the "one best way" for a job to be done - Frederick Winslow Taylor.
Social responsibility (corporate social responsibility or CSR)
Scientific management
Rights view of ethics
Importing
22. 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
The Autocratic Style
Planning
Multi domestic corporation
Top managers
23. Includes monitoring performance comparing it with goals and correcting any significant deviations
Controlling
Planning
Conceptual skills
Dimensions of organizational culture
24. The manager encourages employees to become actively involved in the decision-making process; authority is decentralised and communication is a two way process.
Top managers
Social responsibility (corporate social responsibility or CSR)
The Participative Style
Conceptual skills
25. Includes motivating employees directing the activites of other selecting the most effective communication channel and resolving conflicts
Leading
Non managerial employees
Decisional roles
Utilitarian view of ethics
26. An MNC that centralizes management and other decisions in the home country
The Participative Style
Informational roles
Global corporation
Interpersonal roles
27. Economic - Global - Political/Legal - Socio cultural - Technological - demographics. In the middle THE ORGANIZATION`
Ethics
Stability
Components of the External Environment
Decisional roles
28. A specific type of strategic alliance in which the partners agree to form a separate independent organization for some business purpose.
Joint venture
Political skills
Symbolic view of management
Franchising
29. Involving people (subordinates and persons outside the organization) and other duties that are ceremonial and symbolic in nature
Interpersonal roles
Stakeholders
Global corporation
Demographics
30. 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
Multi domestic corporation
Licensing
Family-friendly benifits
Agressiveness
31. Supervisors responsible for directing the day to day activities of non managerial employees
Demographics
First-line managers
Effectiveness
Global stategic alliance
32. A narrow focus in which managers see thing only through their own eyes and from their own perspective
Parochiallism
Three Characteristics of Organizations
Theory of justice view of ethics
Decisions roles
33. A structural arrangement for global organizations that eliminates artificial geographical barries
Exporting
Management Styles
Transnational (border less) organization
Effectiveness
34. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically
Management
Race
Employee Engagement
Importing
35. Degree to which employees are expected to exhibit precision analysis and attention to detial
Informational roles
Controlling
Environmental uncertainty
Attention to detial
36. The number of components in an organizations environment and the extent of knowledge that the organizations has about those components
Leading
Environmental complexity
Dimensions of organizational culture
Controlling
37. Specific categories of managerial behavior often grouped around interpersonal relationships information transfer and decision making
Managerial roles
Leading
Managers
The Autocratic Style
38. Managers allow employees to take full responsibility for decisions within their areas; authority is decentralised.
The Laissez-Faire Style
Decisions roles
Ethics
Organizational culture
39. An agreement in which an organization gives other organization the right for a fee to use its name and operating methods
Dimensions of organizational culture
Leading
Franchising
Environmental complexity
40. 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
Stakeholders
Foreign subsidary
Controlling
Code of ethics
41. Individuals who are typically responsible for translating goals set by top managers into specific details that lower-level managers wills see get done
Middle Managers
Environmental complexity
Organizational culture
Theory of justice view of ethics
42. A business firms intention beyond its legal and economic obligations to do the right things act in ways that are good for society
Scientific management
Organization stakeholders
Social responsibility (corporate social responsibility or CSR)
Small Business
43. View that says ethical decisions are made in order to enforce rules fairly and impartially
Theory of justice view of ethics
Outcome orientation
Leading
Attention to detial
44. Factors forces situations and events outside the organization that affect its performance
Informational roles
Attention to detial
Franchising
External factors
45. Autocratic - Persuasive - Consultative - Participative - Laissez-Faire
How organizations go global
Technical skills
Controlling
Management Styles
46. 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
Top managers
Stakeholders
Organizing
The Autocratic Style
47. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations
Global sourcing
Global Village
Interpersonal skills
Conceptual skills
48. A managers ability to work with understand mentor and motivate other both individually and in groups
Interpersonal skills
Strong cultures
Global Village
External factors
49. People who work directly on a job or task and have no responsibility for overseeing the work of others
Team orientation
Non managerial employees
Foreign subsidary
Stakeholders
50. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.
Informational roles
Agressiveness
Management levels
Managers