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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A managers ability to build a power base and establish the right connections






2. 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






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






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






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






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






7. Supervisors responsible for directing the day to day activities of non managerial employees






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






9. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. 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






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






29. 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






30. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






32. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






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






43. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






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






46. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






49. 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






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