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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Part-time temporary and contract workers who are available for hire on an as-needed basis






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






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






4. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






6. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






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






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






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






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






12. 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






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






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






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






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






17. 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






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






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






20. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. 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






31. 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






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






33. 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.






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






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






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






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






38. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






42. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






43. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






45. 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






46. 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






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






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






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






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