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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A business firms intention beyond its legal and economic obligations to do the right things act in ways that are good for society






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






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






4. 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






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






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






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






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






9. 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






10. 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






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






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






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






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






15. A boundary less world where goods and services are produced and marketed worlwide






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






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






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






19. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






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






24. 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.






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






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






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






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






29. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






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






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






34. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






47. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






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