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Business Leadership
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business-skills
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.
Functional Chimney Problem
PC
Prejudice
Management Science
2. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Incremental Change
Reactive Change
Core Competency
Functional Chimney Problem
3. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Culture
Psychological Contract
Controlling
4. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.
Unfreezing
Hygiene (factor)
(Growth through)Concentration
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
5. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
(Growth through) Diversification
Policy
Job Performance
Job Enrichment
6. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem
Contingency Thinking
Business Strategy
Intuitive Thinking
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
7. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.
Fred Fiedler
Boundaryless Organizations
Need
Ethics
8. Choosing the first satisfactory alternative that comes to attention
Virtual Organization
Human Skill
Job Performance
Satisficing Decision
9. The process of assigning tasks - allocating resources - and arranging activities to implement plans.
Competitive Advantage
Corporate Strategy
Organizing
BCG Matrix
10. Behaviour followed by pleasant consequences is like to be repeated; behaviour followed by unpleasant work conditions is not.
Law of Effect
Hygiene (factor)
Learning Organization
Intuitive Thinking
11. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.
Middle Manager
Job Enrichment
Core Competency
Contingency Thinking
12. Found in job content - such as a sense of achievement - recognition - or personal growth.
Satisfier (factor)
Virtual Organization
Incremental Change
Decision
13. When a business function is contracted to an outside supplier
Outsourcing
Certain Environment
Contingency Thinking
Job Enrichment
14. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
Management Science
Fred Fiedler
Performance efficiency
Conceptual Skill
15. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
Culture
Refreezing
Boundaryless Organizations
nPower
16. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
Lifelong Learning
Functional Strategy
Modeling
Policy
17. Is by acquiring suppliers and distributors
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Importing
Controlling
Cross functional team
18. Approaches problems in a rational and analytical fashion.
Prejudice
Systematic Thinking
Satisficing Decision
Problem Solving
19. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem
Performance efficiency
P Decision (Programmed)
Heuristics
Job Enrichment
20. Uses IT (information technology) to link with networks of outside suppliers and service contractors
Network Structure
Team Structure
Satisficing Decision
PC
21. The process of arousing enthusiasm and directing efforts towards organizational goals.
Action Research
Network Structure
Escalating Commitment
Leading
22. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.
Direction
Decision
Intellectual Capital
Incremental Change
23. The number of subordinates directly reporting to a manager
SoC (Span of Control)
Skill
CoC (Chain of Command)
Cross functional team
24. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
Certain Environment
Top Manager
Functional Strategy
Direction
25. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Job Enrichment
Management Science
Satisfier (factor)
Importing
26. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented
Action Research
Delegation
Top Manager
Fred Fiedler
27. Local products are sold abroad
Core Competency
Network Structure
Exporting
Strategy
28. A shared set of beliefs - values - and patterns of behavior common to a group of people
Culture
Decision
Cross functional team
SoC (Span of Control)
29. Links all persons with successively higher levels of authority.
CoC (Chain of Command)
Action Research
Functional Strategy
Top Manager
30. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
Lifelong Learning
Virtual Organization
Knowledge Worker
Accountability
31. Brings together members from different functional departments
Job Enrichment
Strategy
Cross functional team
Automation
32. A person who supports and is responsible for the work of others.
nAff
Performance effectiveness
Manager
Heuristics
33. A special strength that gives an organization a competitive advantage.
Systematic Thinking
Strategy
Core Competency
Fred Fiedler
34. Use IT to collect - organize - and distribute data for use in decision making
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Core Competency
Functional Strategy
Information System
35. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
Network Structure
Job Performance
Accountability
Certain Environment
36. The overall quality of human experiences in the workplace.
Fred Fiedler
Accountability
Risk Environment
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
37. An unexpected problem that can lead to disaster if not resolved quickly and appropriately
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Hygiene (factor)
Crisis
Systematic Thinking
38. The phase during which a situation is prepared for change.
Need
Unfreezing
Culture
Learning Organization
39. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment
Heuristics
Performance effectiveness
Satisfier (factor)
Strategy
40. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.
Direction
Technical Skill
nPower
Network Structure
41. The tendancy to consider one's culture as superior to others
Ethnocentrism
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Controlling
Intuitive Thinking
42. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
Incremental Change
Prejudice
Importing
Competitive Advantage
43. Aligns the organization with anticipated future challenges.
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
P Decision (Programmed)
Contingency Thinking
Planned Change
44. The creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
Reactive Change
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Manager
Synergy
45. The ability to think analytically and solve complex problems to the benefit of everyone involved.
Team Structure
Fred Fiedler
Conceptual Skill
Ethics
46. Results in a major and comprehensive redirection of the organization.
Network Structure
Transformational Change
Competitive Advantage
Functional Chimney Problem
47. A comprehensive plan guiding resource allocation to achieve long-term organizational goals.
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Leading
Synergy
Strategy
48. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Reactive Change
Business Strategy
Cross functional team
Importing
49. The ability to translate knowledge into action that results in desired performance
Ethics
Certain Environment
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Skill
50. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
Organizing
Knowledge Worker
Action Research
Manager