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1. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information
Organizing
Environmental uncertainty
Informational roles
Technical skills
2. Cultures in which the key values are deeply held and widely shared
Components of the External Environment
Strong cultures
Social responsibility (corporate social responsibility or CSR)
Multinational corporation (MNC)
3. Attention to detail - innovation and risk taking - stability - aggressiveness - team orientation - people orientation - outcome orientation.
People orientation
Dimensions of organizational culture
Theory of justice view of ethics
The Autocratic Style
4. 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
Environmental complexity
Planning
Leading
Sustainability
5. A set of rules or principles that defines right and wrong conduct
Ethics
Dimensions of organizational culture
Multinational corporation (MNC)
Interpersonal roles
6. The process of getting things done effectively efficiently through and with other people
Efficency
Management
Omnipotent view of management
Ethics
7. A structural arrangement for global organizations that eliminates artificial geographical barries
Franchising
Transnational (border less) organization
Dimensions of organizational culture
Strong cultures
8. Autocratic - Persuasive - Consultative - Participative - Laissez-Faire
Leading
Management Styles
Ethics
Social obligation
9. Goals - People and Structure
Planning
Joint venture
Three Characteristics of Organizations
Franchising
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
Exporting
Transnational (border less) organization
Scientific management
Organizing
11. A boundary less world where goods and services are produced and marketed worlwide
Strong cultures
Leading
Global Village
Workforce diveristy
12. An MNC that decentralizes management and other decisions to the local country where its doing business
Leading
Multi domestic corporation
The Persuasive Style
External factors
13. 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.
Social obligation
Symbolic view of management
Three Characteristics of Organizations
Global stategic alliance
14. An agreement in which an organization gives other organization the right for a fee to use its name and operating methods
Attention to detial
Planning
Franchising
Scientific management
15. A managers ability to work with understand mentor and motivate other both individually and in groups
Exporting
The Consultative Style
Sustainability
Interpersonal skills
16. 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
Exporting
Middle Managers
Leading
Small Business
17. 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
Decisions roles
Multinational corporation (MNC)
The Participative Style
Licensing
18. View that says ethical decisions are made solely on the basis of their outcomes or consequences
Utilitarian view of ethics
Top managers
Rights view of ethics
Decisions roles
19. Making products domestically and selling them abroad
Social obligation
Contingent workforce
The Persuasive Style
Exporting
20. A specific type of strategic alliance in which the partners agree to form a separate independent organization for some business purpose.
Multi domestic corporation
Joint venture
Team orientation
Organization stakeholders
21. Degree to which employees are encouraged to be innovative and take risks
Innovation and risk taking
Stability
Middle Managers
Organizing
22. A managers ability to build a power base and establish the right connections
The Consultative Style
Management Styles
Outcome orientation
Political skills
23. Degree to which management decision take into account the effects on people in the organization
Global corporation
People orientation
Joint venture
Social obligation
24. Any equipment tools or operating methods that are designed to make work more efficient
Interpersonal roles
Interpersonal roles
Technology
Political skills
25. The characteristics of a population used for purposes of social stuidies
Global stategic alliance
Attention to detial
Demographics
Sustainability
26. The use of scientific methods to define the "one best way" for a job to be done - Frederick Winslow Taylor.
Multi domestic corporation
Exporting
Scientific management
Controlling
27. Job-specific knowledge and techniques needed to perform work tasks
Small Business
The Persuasive Style
Informational roles
Technical skills
28. Degree to which managers focus on results or outcomes rather than on how these outcomes are achived
Importing
Utilitarian view of ethics
Dimensions of organizational culture
Outcome orientation
29. The view that much of an organizations success or failure is due to external forces outside managers control
Symbolic view of management
Political skills
Conceptual skills
Managerial roles
30. The manager encourages employees to become actively involved in the decision-making process; authority is decentralised and communication is a two way process.
Planning
Leading
Social obligation
The Participative Style
31. People who work directly on a job or task and have no responsibility for overseeing the work of others
The Laissez-Faire Style
Leading
Non managerial employees
Global corporation
32. Specific categories of managerial behavior often grouped around interpersonal relationships information transfer and decision making
Managerial roles
Social responsivness
Stakeholders
Transnational (border less) organization
33. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator
Transnational (border less) organization
Symbolic view of management
Leading
Decisions roles
34. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations
Conceptual skills
Omnipotent view of management
The Consultative Style
Three Characteristics of Organizations
35. Involving people (subordinates and persons outside the organization) and other duties that are ceremonial and symbolic in nature
Small Business
Management
Interpersonal roles
Global Village
36. Degree to which employees are expected to exhibit precision analysis and attention to detial
Omnipotent view of management
Attention to detial
First-line managers
Exporting
37. Managers allow employees to take full responsibility for decisions within their areas; authority is decentralised.
Symbolic view of management
Omnipotent view of management
The Laissez-Faire Style
Controlling
38. Part-time temporary and contract workers who are available for hire on an as-needed basis
Contingent workforce
Foreign subsidary
Demographics
Environmental complexity
39. Purchasing materials or labor from around the world wherever it is cheapest
Stability
How organizations go global
Global sourcing
Informational roles
40. A formal document that states an organizations primary values and the ethical rules its expects managers and non managerial employees to follow
Joint venture
Decisional roles
Employee Engagement
Code of ethics
41. The view that managers are directly responsible for an organizations success or failure
Omnipotent view of management
Scientific management
Informational roles
Rights view of ethics
42. The degree of change and complexity in an organizations enviroment
Technology
Environmental uncertainty
Scientific management
Foreign subsidary
43. The manager makes decisions alone - but explains the reasons to employees; authority is centralised and communication is one way.
Ethics
Global stategic alliance
The Persuasive Style
The Participative Style
44. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically
Multinational corporation (MNC)
Importing
Foreign subsidary
Ethinicity
45. Planning - Organizing - Leading - Controlling Middle ACHIEVING THE ORGANIZATIONS STATES PURPOSE.
Four Management Functions
Leading
Multinational corporation (MNC)
The Laissez-Faire Style
46. When employees are connected to satisfied with and enthusiastic about their jobs
Sustainability
Conceptual skills
Employee Engagement
Stakeholders
47. Includes defining goals establishing strategy and developing plans to coordinate activites
Attention to detial
Planning
Management levels
Controlling
48. View that says ethical decisions are made in order to enforce rules fairly and impartially
Informational roles
Theory of justice view of ethics
Environmental uncertainty
Organizing
49. Includes motivating employees directing the activites of other selecting the most effective communication channel and resolving conflicts
Components of the External Environment
Leading
How organizations go global
Utilitarian view of ethics
50. Degree to which work is organized around team rather than individuals
Team orientation
Top managers
Symbolic view of management
Licensing
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