Test your basic knowledge |

Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






5. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. 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






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






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






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






17. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. 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






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






29. Part-time temporary and contract workers who are available for hire on an as-needed basis






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






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






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






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






34. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. 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






42. 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.






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






44. Figurehead - leader - liaison






45. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






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






49. Goals - People and Structure






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