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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The characteristics of a population used for purposes of social stuidies






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






3. A managers ability to build a power base and establish the right connections






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






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






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






7. 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






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






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






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






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






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






13. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






14. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






17. 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.






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






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






20. 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






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






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






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






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






25. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






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






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






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






38. 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






39. The shared values principles traditions and ways of doing things that influence the way organizational members act






40. 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






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






42. 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






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






44. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






47. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






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