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Management
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business-skills
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Small Business
Family-friendly benifits
The Persuasive Style
Planning
2. 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
Social responsibility (corporate social responsibility or CSR)
Workforce diveristy
Exporting
Components of the External Environment
3. The characteristics of a population used for purposes of social stuidies
Managerial roles
Demographics
Global corporation
Transnational (border less) organization
4. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information
Global Village
Strong cultures
Informational roles
Stakeholders
5. The number of components in an organizations environment and the extent of knowledge that the organizations has about those components
Ethinicity
Controlling
Environmental complexity
Environmental uncertainty
6. The use of scientific methods to define the "one best way" for a job to be done - Frederick Winslow Taylor.
The Consultative Style
Ethinicity
Leading
Scientific management
7. View that says ethical decisions are made in order to enforce rules fairly and impartially
The Persuasive Style
Scientific management
Theory of justice view of ethics
Environmental uncertainty
8. An MNC that decentralizes management and other decisions to the local country where its doing business
Contingent workforce
Components of the External Environment
Omnipotent view of management
Multi domestic corporation
9. The manager encourages employees to become actively involved in the decision-making process; authority is decentralised and communication is a two way process.
Importing
Management
The Participative Style
Controlling
10. The manager makes the final decision after gaining feedback from stakeholders; authority is still somewhat centralised; communication is a two way process.
The Consultative Style
Theory of justice view of ethics
Demographics
Middle Managers
11. A set of rules or principles that defines right and wrong conduct
Components of the External Environment
Ethics
Non managerial employees
Rights view of ethics
12. Managers allow employees to take full responsibility for decisions within their areas; authority is decentralised.
The Laissez-Faire Style
Race
Agressiveness
Code of ethics
13. Entailing making decisions or choices
Workforce diveristy
Decisional roles
Social obligation
Environmental complexity
14. Degree to which organizational decisions and actions emphasize maintaining the status quo
Management
Employee Engagement
Stability
Managerial roles
15. The manager makes decisions alone - but explains the reasons to employees; authority is centralised and communication is one way.
Management
The Participative Style
The Persuasive Style
First-line managers
16. Making products domestically and selling them abroad
Middle Managers
Joint venture
Exporting
Informational roles
17. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson
Exporting
Theory of justice view of ethics
Informational roles
Managerial roles
18. Individuals who are responsible for making decisions about the direction of the organization and establishing policies that affect all organizational memebers
Top managers
Planning
Decisions roles
Global stategic alliance
19. The process of getting things done effectively efficiently through and with other people
Political skills
Management
Multi domestic corporation
Race
20. A formal document that states an organizations primary values and the ethical rules its expects managers and non managerial employees to follow
Franchising
Three Characteristics of Organizations
Code of ethics
The Laissez-Faire Style
21. Employees - customers - unions - social and political action groups - shareholders - competitors - communities - Trade and industry associations - Suppliers - governments - media.
Organization stakeholders
Environmental complexity
Dimensions of organizational culture
Managerial roles
22. Degree to which employees are expected to exhibit precision analysis and attention to detial
Joint venture
Conceptual skills
Attention to detial
Components of the External Environment
23. Any constituencies in an organizations environment that are affected by that organizations decisions and actions
Stakeholders
Decisional roles
Management levels
Decisions roles
24. Benefits that provide a wide range of scheduling options and allow employees more flexibility at work accommodating their needs for work-life balance
Technical skills
Family-friendly benifits
Decisional roles
Ethics
25. Economic - Global - Political/Legal - Socio cultural - Technological - demographics. In the middle THE ORGANIZATION`
Components of the External Environment
Social responsibility (corporate social responsibility or CSR)
The Persuasive Style
Exporting
26. Attention to detail - innovation and risk taking - stability - aggressiveness - team orientation - people orientation - outcome orientation.
Technology
Joint venture
Dimensions of organizational culture
Licensing
27. 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
Leading
Planning
Organization
Organizing
28. Any type of international company that maintains operations in multiple countries
Multinational corporation (MNC)
Innovation and risk taking
First-line managers
External factors
29. A systematic arrangement of people brought together to accomplish some specific purpose
Controlling
Effectiveness
Multi domestic corporation
Organization
30. A specific type of strategic alliance in which the partners agree to form a separate independent organization for some business purpose.
Joint venture
Technology
Interpersonal roles
Importing
31. A managers ability to build a power base and establish the right connections
Leading
Political skills
Team orientation
Scientific management
32. View that says ethical decisions are made in order to respect and protect individual liberties and privileges
People orientation
Rights view of ethics
Employee Engagement
Management
33. The biological heritage (including physical characteristics such as ones skin color and associated traits that people use to identify themselves
Ethinicity
Race
Organizing
Workforce diveristy
34. Degree to which employees are encouraged to be innovative and take risks
Importing
Team orientation
Four Management Functions
Innovation and risk taking
35. The shared values principles traditions and ways of doing things that influence the way organizational members act
Race
Organizational culture
Effectiveness
The Participative Style
36. 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
Organizing
Controlling
Environmental complexity
Leading
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
Controlling
Sustainability
Team orientation
People orientation
38. Planning - Organizing - Leading - Controlling Middle ACHIEVING THE ORGANIZATIONS STATES PURPOSE.
The Participative Style
Middle Managers
Four Management Functions
Political skills
39. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically
Exporting
Sustainability
Importing
Global sourcing
40. A structural arrangement for global organizations that eliminates artificial geographical barries
Interpersonal roles
Four Management Functions
Management levels
Transnational (border less) organization
41. Degree to which management decision take into account the effects on people in the organization
People orientation
Parochiallism
Global stategic alliance
The Participative Style
42. A business firms intention beyond its legal and economic obligations to do the right things act in ways that are good for society
Ethinicity
Social responsibility (corporate social responsibility or CSR)
Informational roles
People orientation
43. Purchasing materials or labor from around the world wherever it is cheapest
Social responsivness
Global sourcing
Parochiallism
Management
44. Includes defining goals establishing strategy and developing plans to coordinate activites
Dimensions of organizational culture
Planning
Code of ethics
Foreign subsidary
45. Doing things right or getting the most output from the least amount of inputs
Efficency
Four Management Functions
Management
Family-friendly benifits
46. People who work directly on a job or task and have no responsibility for overseeing the work of others
Non managerial employees
Middle Managers
Team orientation
Family-friendly benifits
47. Supervisors responsible for directing the day to day activities of non managerial employees
Rights view of ethics
Political skills
First-line managers
Social responsibility (corporate social responsibility or CSR)
48. An MNC that centralizes management and other decisions in the home country
Parochiallism
Licensing
Global corporation
Global sourcing
49. Factors forces situations and events outside the organization that affect its performance
External factors
Controlling
Dimensions of organizational culture
Sustainability
50. Job-specific knowledge and techniques needed to perform work tasks
Global sourcing
Transnational (border less) organization
Technical skills
External factors