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Management

Subject : business-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






4. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






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






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






9. 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






10. Figurehead - leader - liaison






11. Goals - People and Structure






12. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






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






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






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. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






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






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






24. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. 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.






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






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






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






38. Individuals who are responsible for making decisions about the direction of the organization and establishing policies that affect all organizational memebers






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






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






41. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






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






46. Any equipment tools or operating methods that are designed to make work more efficient






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. 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






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







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