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Business Leadership
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1. Offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.
Certain Environment
Management Science
Skill
Corporate Strategy
2. A lack of communication and coordination across functions.
Modeling
Procedure
Functional Chimney Problem
Job Burnout
3. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones
Mentoring
Hygiene (factor)
Problem Solving
Job Burnout
4. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.
Direction
Performance efficiency
Functional Strategy
Refreezing
5. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.
Management Science
Virtual Organization
Cross functional team
Skill
6. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
Prejudice
(Growth through) Diversification
Satisficing Decision
Psychological Contract
7. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.
Organizing
Escalating Commitment
Delegation
Type A Personality
8. An unexpected problem that can lead to disaster if not resolved quickly and appropriately
Mentoring
Crisis
Modeling
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
9. The process of arousing enthusiasm and directing efforts towards organizational goals.
Functional Chimney Problem
Leading
Contingency Thinking
Prejudice
10. The phase at which change is stabilized.
Modeling
(Growth through) Diversification
Skill
Refreezing
11. Responds to events as or after they occur.
SoC (Span of Control)
Type A Personality
Exporting
Reactive Change
12. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.
Ethnocentrism
Human Skill
Incremental Change
Uncertain Environment
13. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
Exporting
Knowledge Worker
Hygiene (factor)
Planning
14. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.
Importing
Planned Change
Boundaryless Organizations
Satisficing Decision
15. Is by acquiring suppliers and distributors
Strategy
Heuristics
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
16. WOT
Workforce Diversity
Job Enrichment
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Corporate Strategy
17. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
Planning
CoC (Chain of Command)
Core Competency
Unfreezing
18. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
Lifelong Learning
Job Performance
Fred Fiedler
Ethnocentrism
19. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
nPower
Human Skill
Budget
Functional Chimney Problem
20. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action
Job Burnout
Decision
Knowledge Worker
Refreezing
21. The process of taking a new idea and putting it into practice.
Innovation
Crisis
Mentoring
(Growth through)Concentration
22. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
Human Skill
Job Performance
Skill
Synergy
23. Choosing the first satisfactory alternative that comes to attention
Satisficing Decision
Information System
PC
Technical Skill
24. The tendancy to consider one's culture as superior to others
Virtual Organization
Ethnocentrism
Network Structure
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
25. Behaviour followed by pleasant consequences is like to be repeated; behaviour followed by unpleasant work conditions is not.
Mentoring
Job Burnout
Retrenchment Strategy
Law of Effect
26. The total mechanization of a job.
Strategy
P Decision (Programmed)
Automation
Culture
27. A plan that commits resources to projects or activities
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Performance efficiency
Budget
Problem Solving
28. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Motivation
Action Research
(Growth through)Concentration
29. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
Escalating Commitment
Productivity
Job Enrichment
Job Burnout
30. Growing within the same business area
(Growth through)Concentration
Planned Change
Need
Culture
31. An invisible barrier limiting the advancement of woman and minorities
Modeling
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Boundaryless Organizations
Functional Chimney Problem
32. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Learning Organization
Procedure
Knowledge Worker
33. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.
Satisficing Decision
Management Science
Technical Skill
Unfreezing
34. The application of operant conditioning to influence human behaviour at work.
Leading
Subsystem
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Procedure
35. Uses permanent and temporary cross-functional teams to improve lateral relations
Team Structure
Satisficing Decision
Problem Solving
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
36. The ability to translate knowledge into action that results in desired performance
Skill
Planning
Ethnocentrism
PC
37. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Management Science
Business Strategy
Core Competency
Boundaryless Organizations
38. Brings together members from different functional departments
Satisfier (factor)
Performance
Cross functional team
Conceptual Skill
39. Links all persons with successively higher levels of authority.
Policy
CoC (Chain of Command)
Job Burnout
Strategy
40. An unfulfilled physiological or psychological desire.
Business Strategy
Hygiene (factor)
Need
Ethics
41. Describes the differences among workers in gender - race - age - ethnic culture - able-bodiness - religious affiliation - and sexual orientation.
Workforce Diversity
Planning
Job Enrichment
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
42. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
Subsystem
Automation
Globalization
Reactive Change
43. Approaches problems in a flexible and spontaneous fashion.
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Innovation
Law of Effect
Intuitive Thinking
44. The quantity and quality of work performance - with resource utilization considered.
Productivity
Need
Management Science
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
45. Sets standards as to what is good or bad or right or wrong in ones conduct.
Risk Environment
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Ethics
nAff
46. Provides learning opportunities to acquire and improve job related skills
Problem Solving
Motivation
Training
BCG Matrix
47. A person who supports and is responsible for the work of others.
Middle Manager
Innovation
Manager
Leading
48. Utilizes people - values - and systems to continously change and improve its performance.
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Learning Organization
Job Performance
Type A Personality
49. A shared set of beliefs - values - and patterns of behavior common to a group of people
Productivity
Functional Chimney Problem
Culture
Top Manager
50. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
Leading
Incremental Change
Skill
PC
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