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Management
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business-skills
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The manager encourages employees to become actively involved in the decision-making process; authority is decentralised and communication is a two way process.
The Participative Style
Importing
Political skills
Small Business
2. View that says ethical decisions are made in order to enforce rules fairly and impartially
Demographics
Theory of justice view of ethics
People orientation
Multinational corporation (MNC)
3. Making products domestically and selling them abroad
Licensing
Franchising
Social responsibility (corporate social responsibility or CSR)
Exporting
4. Benefits that provide a wide range of scheduling options and allow employees more flexibility at work accommodating their needs for work-life balance
Family-friendly benifits
Symbolic view of management
Global sourcing
Rights view of ethics
5. Degree to which organizational decisions and actions emphasize maintaining the status quo
Stability
Non managerial employees
Strong cultures
Outcome orientation
6. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information
Leading
Informational roles
Foreign subsidary
The Persuasive Style
7. An MNC that centralizes management and other decisions in the home country
Joint venture
Multi domestic corporation
Global corporation
Top managers
8. A boundary less world where goods and services are produced and marketed worlwide
Global Village
Scientific management
Innovation and risk taking
Management levels
9. Specific categories of managerial behavior often grouped around interpersonal relationships information transfer and decision making
Organizational culture
Managerial roles
Transnational (border less) organization
Race
10. A managers ability to build a power base and establish the right connections
Global sourcing
Political skills
Rights view of ethics
Innovation and risk taking
11. Attention to detail - innovation and risk taking - stability - aggressiveness - team orientation - people orientation - outcome orientation.
Dimensions of organizational culture
The Autocratic Style
The Participative Style
Attention to detial
12. 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
Environmental uncertainty
Contingent workforce
Interpersonal roles
Sustainability
13. 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
Small Business
The Participative Style
Utilitarian view of ethics
Dimensions of organizational culture
14. A structural arrangement for global organizations that eliminates artificial geographical barries
Controlling
Effectiveness
Controlling
Transnational (border less) organization
15. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson
Social responsivness
Theory of justice view of ethics
Informational roles
Scientific management
16. Degree to which employees are expected to exhibit precision analysis and attention to detial
Environmental uncertainty
Attention to detial
Interpersonal roles
Organizing
17. Managers allow employees to take full responsibility for decisions within their areas; authority is decentralised.
External factors
The Laissez-Faire Style
Ethinicity
Interpersonal roles
18. Includes defining goals establishing strategy and developing plans to coordinate activites
Environmental uncertainty
Planning
Management levels
Decisions roles
19. View that says ethical decisions are made in order to respect and protect individual liberties and privileges
Organizing
Stability
Rights view of ethics
Transnational (border less) organization
20. A business firms intention beyond its legal and economic obligations to do the right things act in ways that are good for society
Global sourcing
Management Styles
Demographics
Social responsibility (corporate social responsibility or CSR)
21. 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
Global stategic alliance
Organizing
The Consultative Style
Environmental complexity
22. Cultures in which the key values are deeply held and widely shared
Strong cultures
Middle Managers
People orientation
Stability
23. 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
Parochiallism
Leading
Workforce diveristy
Importing
24. An agreement in which an organization gives other organization the right for a fee to use its name and operating methods
Three Characteristics of Organizations
Innovation and risk taking
Franchising
Stability
25. Any constituencies in an organizations environment that are affected by that organizations decisions and actions
Technology
Conceptual skills
Stakeholders
Non managerial employees
26. Planning - Organizing - Leading - Controlling Middle ACHIEVING THE ORGANIZATIONS STATES PURPOSE.
Ethinicity
Omnipotent view of management
Four Management Functions
Contingent workforce
27. Degree to which work is organized around team rather than individuals
Family-friendly benifits
Team orientation
Exporting
Stability
28. Autocratic - Persuasive - Consultative - Participative - Laissez-Faire
Family-friendly benifits
Management Styles
Ethics
Leading
29. Any type of international company that maintains operations in multiple countries
The Autocratic Style
People orientation
Multinational corporation (MNC)
Symbolic view of management
30. Entailing making decisions or choices
The Laissez-Faire Style
Multi domestic corporation
Decisional roles
Exporting
31. Employees - customers - unions - social and political action groups - shareholders - competitors - communities - Trade and industry associations - Suppliers - governments - media.
The Laissez-Faire Style
Organization stakeholders
Race
Organizing
32. 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
Management Styles
Management
Controlling
Small Business
33. View that says ethical decisions are made solely on the basis of their outcomes or consequences
Organization
Importing
Utilitarian view of ethics
Organization stakeholders
34. When a business firm engages in social actions in response to some popular social need
Race
Informational roles
Social responsivness
Global sourcing
35. Individuals who are typically responsible for translating goals set by top managers into specific details that lower-level managers wills see get done
Middle Managers
Planning
Employee Engagement
Multinational corporation (MNC)
36. An MNC that decentralizes management and other decisions to the local country where its doing business
Parochiallism
Demographics
Leading
Multi domestic corporation
37. The number of components in an organizations environment and the extent of knowledge that the organizations has about those components
First-line managers
Leading
Environmental complexity
The Autocratic Style
38. Figurehead - leader - liaison
Theory of justice view of ethics
Foreign subsidary
Interpersonal roles
Scientific management
39. Goals - People and Structure
Interpersonal skills
Stability
Technology
Three Characteristics of Organizations
40. A formal document that states an organizations primary values and the ethical rules its expects managers and non managerial employees to follow
Code of ethics
Global sourcing
Decisional roles
Utilitarian view of ethics
41. Doing things right or getting the most output from the least amount of inputs
Global Village
The Participative Style
Code of ethics
Efficency
42. Social traits such as ones cultural background or allegiance that are shared by a human population
Ethinicity
Leading
Four Management Functions
Management Styles
43. Degree to which employees are encouraged to be innovative and take risks
The Persuasive Style
Organizing
Innovation and risk taking
Social obligation
44. Includes motivating employees directing the activites of other selecting the most effective communication channel and resolving conflicts
Ethics
Four Management Functions
People orientation
Leading
45. People who work directly on a job or task and have no responsibility for overseeing the work of others
Strong cultures
Exporting
Decisions roles
Non managerial employees
46. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations
Informational roles
The Laissez-Faire Style
Conceptual skills
Ethics
47. Degree to which management decision take into account the effects on people in the organization
The Persuasive Style
Three Characteristics of Organizations
People orientation
Omnipotent view of management
48. A specific type of strategic alliance in which the partners agree to form a separate independent organization for some business purpose.
Joint venture
Outcome orientation
Political skills
Middle Managers
49. The characteristics of a population used for purposes of social stuidies
Demographics
Interpersonal roles
Symbolic view of management
Foreign subsidary
50. A set of rules or principles that defines right and wrong conduct
Multi domestic corporation
Ethics
Workforce diveristy
Management