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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When employees are connected to satisfied with and enthusiastic about their jobs






2. Figurehead - leader - liaison






3. 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.






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






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






6. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






7. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






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






11. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. 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






21. 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






22. 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






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






24. 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






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






26. 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






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






28. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






40. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






41. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






43. Cultures in which the key values are deeply held and widely shared






44. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






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






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






50. 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