BA 101 Flashcards

1
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Someone who coordinates and oversees the work of other people

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Manager

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2
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Managers that are involved with the production or services offered by the entity.

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First-line managers

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3
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Managers that are responsible for the company’s performance?

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Middle Managers

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4
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Responsible for making organization-wide decisions and establishing the plans and goals that affect the entire organization.

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Top Managers

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5
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A deliberate arrangement of people to accomplish some specific purpose

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Organization

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6
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T/F Organizations have a distinct purpose, composed of people and develop structure within which members do their work.

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TRUE

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7
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It refers to getting the most output from the least amount of inputs.

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Efficiency

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8
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It is decribed as “doing the right things”

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Effectiveness

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9
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It involves coordinating and overseeing the work activities of others so that their activities are completed efficiently and effectively.

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Management

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10
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T/F Effectiveness is concerned with the means while efficiency is concerned with ends.

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FALSE

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11
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In___ they set goals, establish strategies for achieveing those goas and develop plans to integrate and coordinate activities.

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Planning

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12
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Arranging and Structuring work to accomplish the organization’s goals

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Organizing

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13
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The function that is about working with and though people to accomplish goals

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Leading

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14
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Evaluation of whether things are going as planned

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Controlling

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15
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This refers to specific actions expected of and exhibited by a manager

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Managerial Roles

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16
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Roles that involve people and other duties that are ceremonial and symbolic in nature.

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Interpersonal

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17
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It involves collecting, receiving and disseminating information

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Informational Roles

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18
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The role that revolves around making choices

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Decisional Role

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19
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Job-specific knowledge and techniques needed to proficiently perform work tasks

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Technical Skills

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20
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The ability to work well with other people both individually and in a group.

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Human Skills

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21
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The skills that managers use to think and to conceptualize about abstract and complex situation.

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Conceptual Skills

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22
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Company’s ability to achieve its business goals and increase long-term shareholder value

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Sustainability

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23
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The reality that management is needed in all types and sized of organizations at all organizational levels, in all organizational areas and in organizations no matter where located.

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Universality of Management

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24
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Managerial Perspective where managers are directly responsible for thr organization’s success and failure.

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Omnipotent VOM

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25
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Managerial Perspective where success or failure is due to external forces outside managers’ control.

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Symbolic VOM

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26
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Factors and forces outside the organization that affect its performance

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External Environment

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27
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The degree of change and complexity in an organization’s environment

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Environmental Uncertainty

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28
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Components in an organization’s environment change frequently

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Dynamic

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29
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The number of components in an organization’s environment and the extent of the organization’s knowledge about those compnents

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environmental complexity

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30
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The shared values, principles, traditions and ways of doing things that influence the way organizational members act.

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Organizational Culture

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31
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T/F Organzational Culture implies that it is a perception, descriptive and shared.

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TRUE

32
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Organizational cultures in which the key values are intensely held and widely shared

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strong cultures

33
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Process that helps employees adapt to the organization’s culture

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Socialization

34
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A culture where organizational values promote a sense of purpose through meaningful work that takes place in the context of community

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Workplace spirituality

35
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Attitude where people do not recognize that others have different ways of living and working.

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Parochialism

36
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Parochialistic belief that the best work approaches and practices are those of the home country.

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Ethnocentric Attitude

37
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View that employees in the host country know the best work approaches and practices for running their business

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Polycentric Attitude

38
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A world-oriented view that focuses on using the best approach and people from around the globe.

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Geocentric Attitude

39
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Type of international company that maintains operations in multiple countries

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Multinational Corp

40
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One type of MNC which decentralizes management and other decisions to the local country.

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Multidomestic Corporation

41
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Type of MNC that centralizes its management and other decision in the home country

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Global country

42
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Type of MNC that eliminates artificial geographical barriers

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Transnational/Boderless organization

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

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Global Sourcing

44
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An organization gives another organization the right to make or sell its products using its technology or products specifications

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Licensing

45
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An organization gives another organization the right to use its name and operating methods

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Franchising

46
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Partnership between an organization and a foreign company partners in which both share resources and knowledge in developing new products or building production facilities.

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Strategic Alliance

47
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Partners form a separate, independent organization for some business purpose

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Joint Venture

48
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A separate and independent facility or office

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Foreign subsidiary

49
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Values and attitudes shared by individauls from a specific country that shape their behavior and their beliefs about what is important

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National Culture

50
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Research program extended by investigating cross-cultural leadership behaviors and gives managers additional information to help them identify and manage cultural differences

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Global leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (Globe)

51
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Cultural awareness and sensitivity skills

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Cultural Intelligence

52
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Attributes that allow a leader to be effective in cross-cultural environments

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Global mind-set

53
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Ways in which people in an organization are different from and similar to one another

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workforce diversity

54
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Easily perceived differences that may trigger certain stereotypes but do not necessarily reflect the ways people think or feel

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Surface-level diversity

55
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These can affect the way people view organizational work reward, communicate, react to leader nad generally behave at work.

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Deep-level diversity

56
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Biological heritage that peole use to identify themselves

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race

57
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Related to race, but it refers to social traits that are shared by a human population

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Ethnicity

58
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Describes a tendency or preference toward a particualr perspective or ideology

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bias

59
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a preconceived belief, opinion or judgment toward a person or a group of people

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prejudice

60
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Judging a peson on a perception of a group to which that person belongs

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stereotyping

61
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when someone acts out their prejudicial attitudes toward people who are the targets of their prejudice

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discrimination

62
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Invisible barrier that separeates women and minorities from the top management

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Glass ceiling

63
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A process whereby an experienced organizational member provides advice and guidance to a less-experienced member

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mentoring

64
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Specialized training to educate employees about the importance of divesirty and teach them skills for working in a diverse workpalce

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diversity skills training

65
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Employee resouce groups are

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groups made up of employees connected by some common dimension of diversity

66
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Social Obligation is

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when a firm engages in social actions because of its obligation to meet certain economic and legal responsibilities

67
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Business intention, beyond its legal and economic obligations, to do the right things and act in ways that are good for society

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social responsibility

68
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Managers consider the impact of their organization on the natural environment

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green management

69
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What are the shades of Green Approaches

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Legal(light green), market approach, stakeholder approach, activist approach (dark green)

70
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Locus of control is

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the degree to which people believe they control their own fate

71
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Organization’s values guide employees in the way they do their jobs

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values-based management

72
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Specific ways that managers can encourage ethical behavior

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  1. Employee Selection 2. Codes of Ethics and Decision Rules 3. Leadership 4. Job Goals and Performance appraisal 5. Ethics training 6. independent social audit 7. Protective Mechanism
73
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What is organizational change

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Any alteration of people, structure or technology

74
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Change agent is

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someone who acts as a catalyst and assumes the responsibility for managing the change process

75
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Organizational Development is

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term used to describe change mathods that focus on people and the anture and quality of interpersonal work relationships

76
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Individuals who actively and enthusiastically support new ideas, build support, overcome resistance and ensure that innovations are implemented

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idea champion