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Management

Subject : business-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A structural arrangement for global organizations that eliminates artificial geographical barries






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






15. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






16. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






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






21. 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






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






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






24. 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






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






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






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






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






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






30. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






31. 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






32. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






35. 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






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






37. 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






38. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






39. A managers ability to work with understand mentor and motivate other both individually and in groups






40. 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.






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






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






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






44. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






45. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






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






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






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






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