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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Employees - customers - unions - social and political action groups - shareholders - competitors - communities - Trade and industry associations - Suppliers - governments - media.






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






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






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






5. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






6. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






9. 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






10. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






20. The biological heritage (including physical characteristics such as ones skin color and associated traits that people use to identify themselves






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






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






23. 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






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






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






26. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






28. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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






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






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






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






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






49. The manager makes all decisions alone - with centralised authority and one-way communication.






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