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Management

Subject : business-skills
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1. Planning - Organizing - Leading - Controlling Middle ACHIEVING THE ORGANIZATIONS STATES PURPOSE.






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






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






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






5. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






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. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






23. 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.






24. 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






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






26. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






35. 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






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






37. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






38. 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






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






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






41. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. 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






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







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