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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






2. Goals - People and Structure






3. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






4. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. 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.






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






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






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






17. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. An MNC that centralizes management and other decisions in the home country






27. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. 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






49. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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