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Management

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A business firms intention beyond its legal and economic obligations to do the right things act in ways that are good for society






2. Figurehead - leader - liaison






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






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






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






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






7. Entailing making decisions or choices






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. 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






18. 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






19. Acquiring products made abroad and selling them domestically






20. 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






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






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






23. 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






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






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






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






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






28. Involving collecting receiving and disseminating information






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






30. A managers ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations






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






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






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






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






35. 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






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






37. 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






38. Entrepreneur - Disturbance handler - resource allocator - negortiator






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






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






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






42. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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