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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A boundary less world where goods and services are produced and marketed worlwide






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






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






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






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






7. 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






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






9. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






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






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






15. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






17. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






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






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






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






23. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






25. Figurehead - leader - liaison






26. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. 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






36. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






39. 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.






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






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






42. 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






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






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






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






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






47. 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






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






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






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