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Management

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






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






3. Goals - People and Structure






4. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






6. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






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






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






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






11. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. 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






24. 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






25. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






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. 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






31. 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






32. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






34. 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.






35. 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






36. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






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






49. 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






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