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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






3. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






4. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






6. View that says ethical decisions are made in order to respect and protect individual liberties and privileges






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






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






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






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






11. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






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






16. 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






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






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






19. 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






20. 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






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






22. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






32. 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.






33. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. Degree to which employees are aggressive and competitive rather than cooperative






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






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






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






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






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






47. Part-time temporary and contract workers who are available for hire on an as-needed basis






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






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






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