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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The biological heritage (including physical characteristics such as ones skin color and associated traits that people use to identify themselves






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






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






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






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






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






7. Figurehead - leader - liaison






8. 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






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






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






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






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






13. 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






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






15. 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






16. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






29. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






30. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






31. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






34. 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






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






36. An agreement in which an organization gives another the right for a fee to make or sell its products using its technology or product specifications






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. 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.






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






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






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






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