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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The degree of change and complexity in an organizations enviroment






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






3. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






5. Part-time temporary and contract workers who are available for hire on an as-needed basis






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. 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






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






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






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






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






17. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






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






28. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






29. A set of rules or principles that defines right and wrong conduct






30. An MNC that centralizes management and other decisions in the home country






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. 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






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






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






41. 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






42. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. 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