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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Attention to detail - innovation and risk taking - stability - aggressiveness - team orientation - people orientation - outcome orientation.






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






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






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






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






6. 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






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






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






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






10. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






13. Entailing making decisions or choices






14. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. 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






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






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






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






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






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






37. Goals - People and Structure






38. 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






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






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






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






42. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. Figurehead - leader - liaison