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Management

Subject : business-skills
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1. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






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






5. 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






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






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






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






9. 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






10. Making products domestically and selling them abroad






11. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






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






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






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






17. Involving people (subordinates and persons outside the organization) and other duties that are ceremonial and symbolic in nature






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






19. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






23. 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






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






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






26. The manager makes all decisions alone - with centralised authority and one-way communication.






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. A direct investment in a foreign country that involves setting up a separate and independent facility or office






46. Autocratic - Persuasive - Consultative - Participative - Laissez-Faire






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






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






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






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