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Management

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






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






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






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






5. 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






6. 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






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






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






9. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






11. 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.






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






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






14. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






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






16. 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






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






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






19. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






20. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






21. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






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






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






26. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






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






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






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






32. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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