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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The shared values principles traditions and ways of doing things that influence the way organizational members act






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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






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






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






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






13. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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






30. 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






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






32. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






33. 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.






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






35. 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






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






37. 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






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






39. 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






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






41. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






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






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






45. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






47. 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






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






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






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