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Test your basic knowledge |

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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Includes motivating employees directing the activites of other selecting the most effective communication channel and resolving conflicts






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






3. 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.






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






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






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






7. 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






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






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






10. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






25. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






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






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






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






42. Goals - People and Structure






43. 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






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






45. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






47. 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






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






49. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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