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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. 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






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






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






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






5. Individuals in an organization who direct the activities of others






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






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






8. Goals - People and Structure






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. 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






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






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






19. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






22. Figurehead - leader - liaison






23. 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






24. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






25. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






36. 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






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






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






39. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






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






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






45. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






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






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






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






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