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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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1. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






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






5. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






19. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






21. 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






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






23. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






24. 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






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






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






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






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






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






30. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






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






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






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






36. 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






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






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






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






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






41. View that says ethical decisions are made in order to enforce rules fairly and impartially






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. Figurehead - leader - liaison






49. 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






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