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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Individuals who are responsible for making decisions about the direction of the organization and establishing policies that affect all organizational memebers






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






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






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






5. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






15. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






36. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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






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






46. 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






47. Social traits such as ones cultural background or allegiance that are shared by a human population






48. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






49. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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