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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • 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






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






3. 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






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






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






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






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






8. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






18. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. 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






27. 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






28. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. 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






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






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






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






39. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






41. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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