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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Degree to which organizational decisions and actions emphasize maintaining the status quo






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. 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






14. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. 1st Top Managers 2nd Middle managers 3rd First-Line Managers 4th Non managerial employees.






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






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






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






28. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






31. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






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






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






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






36. Mentor - dissemination - spokesperson






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






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






39. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






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






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






42. 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






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






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






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






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






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






48. Entailing making decisions or choices






49. 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






50. 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.