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Management

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






2. 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






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






4. 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






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






6. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






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






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






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






12. Managers allow employees to take full responsibility for decisions within their areas; authority is decentralised.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. View that says ethical decisions are made in order to enforce rules fairly and impartially






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






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






23. The characteristics of a population used for purposes of social stuidies






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






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






26. 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






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






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






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






30. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






31. 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.






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






33. 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






34. Goals - People and Structure






35. 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






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






37. 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






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






39. 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






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






41. When employees are connected to satisfied with and enthusiastic about their jobs






42. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






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






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






48. The manager encourages employees to become actively involved in the decision-making process; authority is decentralised and communication is a two way process.






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






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