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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Doing the right things or completing activities so that organizational goals are attained






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






3. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






7. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






18. 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






19. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






35. Factors forces situations and events outside the organization that affect its performance






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






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






38. 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






39. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






41. 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






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






43. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






45. 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.






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






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






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






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






50. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically