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1. A standing plan that communicates guidelines for decisions and action
Direction
Policy
Law of Effect
Transformational Change
2. The application of operant conditioning to influence human behaviour at work.
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Management Science
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Prejudice
3. Local products are sold abroad
Systematic Thinking
Learning Organization
Exporting
Cross functional team
4. Making managerial decisions based on the situation; Management is not a science.
Outsourcing
Incremental Change
Contingency Thinking
Workforce Diversity
5. The tendancy to consider one's culture as superior to others
Information System
Ethnocentrism
Budget
Performance effectiveness
6. Choosing the first satisfactory alternative that comes to attention
Satisficing Decision
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
(Growth through)Concentration
Productivity
7. The quantity and quality of work performance - with resource utilization considered.
Performance efficiency
Productivity
Prejudice
Direction
8. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
Retrenchment Strategy
Delegation
Functional Strategy
Information System
9. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.
Technical Skill
P Decision (Programmed)
Psychological Contract
Type A Personality
10. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.
Innovation
Team Structure
Culture
Direction
11. A special strength that gives an organization a competitive advantage.
Satisfier (factor)
Core Competency
Conceptual Skill
Ethnocentrism
12. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
Psychological Contract
Job Enrichment
Human Skill
Business Strategy
13. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.
Action Research
Technical Skill
Uncertain Environment
Strategy
14. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
Globalization
Workforce Diversity
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Type A Personality
15. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment
Performance effectiveness
Risk Environment
Policy
Manager
16. Responds to events as or after they occur.
Reactive Change
Intellectual Capital
Learning Organization
Skill
17. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
Conceptual Skill
nPower
Core Competency
Type A Personality
18. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem
Accountability
Automation
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
P Decision (Programmed)
19. Ability x Support x Effort
Performance
Workforce Diversity
Problem Solving
Business Strategy
20. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Strategy
Prejudice
Incremental Change
Controlling
21. Growing within the same business area
Network Structure
(Growth through)Concentration
nAch
Planning
22. Use IT to collect - organize - and distribute data for use in decision making
Decision
Information System
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Transformational Change
23. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
Corporate Strategy
Performance efficiency
Top Manager
(Growth through) Diversification
24. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share
BCG Matrix
Refreezing
Manager
Modeling
25. The number of subordinates directly reporting to a manager
SoC (Span of Control)
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Action Research
Management Science
26. Aligns the organization with anticipated future challenges.
Satisfier (factor)
Law of Effect
Retrenchment Strategy
Planned Change
27. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.
Hygiene (factor)
Procedure
Performance
Certain Environment
28. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
Performance efficiency
Ethics
Modeling
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
29. Uses permanent and temporary cross-functional teams to improve lateral relations
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Type A Personality
Functional Chimney Problem
Team Structure
30. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
Type A Personality
Organizing
Groupthink
Conceptual Skill
31. Involves reducing the scale of current operations
Reactive Change
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Exporting
Retrenchment Strategy
32. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented
Action Research
Problem Solving
Fred Fiedler
Performance
33. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
Job Performance
Performance efficiency
BCG Matrix
Lifelong Learning
34. The ability to think analytically and solve complex problems to the benefit of everyone involved.
Hygiene (factor)
Conceptual Skill
Risk Environment
Heuristics
35. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
Top Manager
Knowledge Worker
Competitive Advantage
Need
36. The process of measuring performance and taking action to ensure desired results
Controlling
Manager
Information System
Ethics
37. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones
Mentoring
Workforce Diversity
Budget
Competitive Advantage
38. The process of arousing enthusiasm and directing efforts towards organizational goals.
Competitive Advantage
Leading
Synergy
Human Skill
39. The process of assigning tasks - allocating resources - and arranging activities to implement plans.
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Organizing
Training
Transformational Change
40. Is by acquiring suppliers and distributors
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Performance effectiveness
Incremental Change
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
41. A shared set of beliefs - values - and patterns of behavior common to a group of people
Risk Environment
Coaching
Strategy
Culture
42. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
Lifelong Learning
Action Research
Competitive Advantage
Risk Environment
43. Physical and Mental exhaustion that can be incapacitating personally and in respect to work.
Technical Skill
Boundaryless Organizations
Job Burnout
Management Science
44. A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities
Performance efficiency
Management Science
Groupthink
Human Skill
45. Utilizes people - values - and systems to continously change and improve its performance.
Need
Learning Organization
Performance efficiency
nAff
46. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
Refreezing
Satisfier (factor)
Performance efficiency
Decision
47. The display of negative - irrational attitudes toward woman or minorities.
Human Skill
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Prejudice
Knowledge Worker
48. Involves working at home or other places using computer links to the office.
Prejudice
Learning Organization
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
CoC (Chain of Command)
49. When a business function is contracted to an outside supplier
Planning
Job Enrichment
Outsourcing
Importing
50. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.
Heuristics
Management Science
(Growth through)Concentration
Business Strategy
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