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quiz 10 - basic management and business quiz - questions without answers
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Which of these is a 'soft' skill? Analysing,
Monitoring, Budgeting, Counselling?
Integrity is essential in all functions, but is
it most crucial in supervision, management, or leadership?
Staff performance appraisals work best if they
are strictly an annual event - true or false?
Which tends to produce the highest percentage
gross profit: mature high-volume products or new low-volume specialised
services?
For effective time management what's the best
frequency for checking your email inbox: constantly, every hour, two or three
times a day?
It is said that "If you can't measure it then you
can't..." what?
Abraham Maslow developed the Hierarchy of
what?
What does MBO or MBO's stand for?
A subordinate has raised a personal issue with
you by email which is causing him/her obvious distress - what's the best means
of communicating from this point: email, phone, face-to-face, text, letter?
Putting interviewees under a lot of pressure at
job interviews is generally helpful to the process of finding out about the
person - true or false?
Experiential learning is most beneficial to
people who have a visual, auditory, or kinesthetic learning style preference?
Which is likely to motivate an enthusiastic
capable team member most: doubling their target, agreeing additional
responsibility, a bonus payment, a new car?
What's a simple way to find out why staff
turnover (number of people leaving) has gone through the roof in the last two
months?
A company has a turnover of £11m. Its 'cost
of sales' or 'cost of goods sold' (COGS) is £6.3m. Its overheads
including fixed costs, depreciation (write-down of capital items) and any
interest charges (on borrowings) are £3.5m. What is the company's
percentage gross profit and percentage net profit before tax, and is this
profit % for a company very high, very low or somewhat typical?
What acronym is useful when delegating a task to
someone or agreeing an objective?
If you assume responsibility for a mature,
high-achieving confident team, which of the following is generally the best
approach to take: stamp your authority on the group; introduce some new ideas
of your own; give them space and make yourself available if needed; or look for
ways to cut costs?
What's the relevance of hobbies on a person's CV?
What can 'closed' questions be used
for?
When planning the running order for a meeting is
it generally best to put the big important items first or last or in the middle
between smaller things?
When conducting appraisals or counselling
sessions it's best to sit at your desk with the other person facing you on the
other side, so as to reinforce your authority - true or false?
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