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






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






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






5. 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






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






7. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






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






11. Goals - People and Structure






12. 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.






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






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






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






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






17. 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






18. 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






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






20. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






24. 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






25. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. 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