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






2. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






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






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






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






8. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






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






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






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






14. 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






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






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






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






18. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






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






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






24. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






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






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






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






30. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






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






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






35. 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.






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






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






38. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






42. 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






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






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






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






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






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






48. 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






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






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