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Management

Subject : business-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Social traits such as ones cultural background or allegiance that are shared by a human population






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






3. View that says ethical decisions are made solely on the basis of their outcomes or consequences






4. 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






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






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






7. An independent business having fewer than 500 employees that doesn't necessarily engage in any new or innovative practices and has relatively little impact on its industry






8. 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






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






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






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






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






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






14. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






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






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






18. Degree to which organizational decisions and actions emphasize maintaining the status quo






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






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






29. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






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






34. Degree to which work is organized around team rather than individuals






35. The view that managers are directly responsible for an organizations success or failure






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






37. 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.






38. 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






39. 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






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






41. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






43. 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






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






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






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






47. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






50. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator