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Management

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






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






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






4. Doing things right or getting the most output from the least amount of inputs






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






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






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






8. Entailing making decisions or choices






9. 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






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






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






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






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






14. 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






15. 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






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






17. 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.






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






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






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






21. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. Includes motivating employees directing the activites of other selecting the most effective communication channel and resolving conflicts






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






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






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






32. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






34. The manager makes decisions alone - but explains the reasons to employees; authority is centralised and communication is one way.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






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






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






50. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information