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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Purchasing materials or labor from around the world wherever it is cheapest






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






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






4. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






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






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






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






19. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






22. 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






23. 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






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






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






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






27. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






33. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






34. 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






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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






41. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






45. 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






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






47. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






49. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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