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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Part-time temporary and contract workers who are available for hire on an as-needed basis






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






3. Goals - People and Structure






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






5. 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.






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






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






8. View that says ethical decisions are made solely on the basis of their outcomes or consequences






9. 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






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






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






12. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






14. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






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






21. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. 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






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






32. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






34. A set of rules or principles that defines right and wrong conduct






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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






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






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






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






44. A narrow focus in which managers see thing only through their own eyes and from their own perspective






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






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






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






48. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






50. Planning - Organizing - Leading - Controlling Middle ACHIEVING THE ORGANIZATIONS STATES PURPOSE.