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Business Leadership
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business-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Procedure
Functional Strategy
Certain Environment
Mentoring
2. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
Reactive Change
Performance efficiency
Psychological Contract
Budget
3. An invisible barrier limiting the advancement of woman and minorities
PC
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Accountability
Competitive Advantage
4. Is by acquiring suppliers and distributors
Workforce Diversity
Boundaryless Organizations
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Fred Fiedler
5. Making managerial decisions based on the situation; Management is not a science.
Contingency Thinking
Strategy
Boundaryless Organizations
Cross functional team
6. Links all persons with successively higher levels of authority.
Delegation
Core Competency
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
CoC (Chain of Command)
7. Provides learning opportunities to acquire and improve job related skills
Innovation
Productivity
Training
Unfreezing
8. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
Planned Change
Unfreezing
Need
Planning
9. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.
Business Strategy
Hygiene (factor)
Direction
Law of Effect
10. The display of negative - irrational attitudes toward woman or minorities.
Functional Strategy
Prejudice
Planning
Fred Fiedler
11. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
Training
Team Structure
Outsourcing
Modeling
12. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
nAch
(Growth through) Diversification
Decision
Prejudice
13. Aligns the organization with anticipated future challenges.
Middle Manager
Reactive Change
Planned Change
Incremental Change
14. The phase at which change is stabilized.
Leading
Refreezing
Human Skill
Groupthink
15. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Mentoring
Risk Environment
Performance effectiveness
16. An unexpected problem that can lead to disaster if not resolved quickly and appropriately
Type A Personality
Culture
Crisis
Top Manager
17. The process of assigning tasks - allocating resources - and arranging activities to implement plans.
Synergy
Uncertain Environment
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Organizing
18. An unfulfilled physiological or psychological desire.
Satisficing Decision
Synergy
Automation
Need
19. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem
Strategy
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Decision
20. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Action Research
Mentoring
P Decision (Programmed)
21. Brings together members from different functional departments
Lifelong Learning
Cross functional team
Decision
Job Performance
22. The application of operant conditioning to influence human behaviour at work.
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Core Competency
Automation
Manager
23. Involves reducing the scale of current operations
Coaching
Ethnocentrism
Retrenchment Strategy
Exporting
24. A shared set of beliefs - values - and patterns of behavior common to a group of people
Planned Change
Culture
Procedure
Top Manager
25. Approaches problems in a rational and analytical fashion.
Escalating Commitment
Systematic Thinking
Need
Top Manager
26. WOT
Competitive Advantage
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Synergy
Risk Environment
27. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Incremental Change
Core Competency
Psychological Contract
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
28. A plan that commits resources to projects or activities
Budget
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Technical Skill
Unfreezing
29. Sets standards as to what is good or bad or right or wrong in ones conduct.
Groupthink
Risk Environment
Conceptual Skill
Ethics
30. Involves identifying and taking action to resolve problems
Problem Solving
Learning Organization
Policy
Culture
31. Expectancy x Instrumentality x Valence
Organizing
Motivation
Satisfier (factor)
Network Structure
32. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.
Performance effectiveness
Functional Strategy
Human Skill
Management Science
33. The total mechanization of a job.
Culture
Automation
Ethics
Intuitive Thinking
34. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.
Performance effectiveness
Psychological Contract
Action Research
Performance
35. The number of subordinates directly reporting to a manager
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Uncertain Environment
Refreezing
SoC (Span of Control)
36. A comprehensive plan guiding resource allocation to achieve long-term organizational goals.
Strategy
SoC (Span of Control)
Problem Solving
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
37. The phase during which a situation is prepared for change.
Middle Manager
Unfreezing
Job Enrichment
Fred Fiedler
38. The ability to think analytically and solve complex problems to the benefit of everyone involved.
Conceptual Skill
Synergy
Exporting
Incremental Change
39. Uses IT (information technology) to link with networks of outside suppliers and service contractors
Escalating Commitment
Systematic Thinking
Satisficing Decision
Network Structure
40. Use IT to collect - organize - and distribute data for use in decision making
Unfreezing
Outsourcing
Controlling
Information System
41. A work unit or smaller component within a larger organization
Subsystem
Technical Skill
nPower
SoC (Span of Control)
42. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
Importing
Exporting
nPower
Job Burnout
43. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
Refreezing
Job Enrichment
Hygiene (factor)
Top Manager
44. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones
Systematic Thinking
Mentoring
Hygiene (factor)
nPower
45. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
Retrenchment Strategy
(Growth through) Diversification
Intellectual Capital
Job Enrichment
46. Responds to events as or after they occur.
Reactive Change
(Growth through)Concentration
Organizing
Competitive Advantage
47. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Hygiene (factor)
Importing
(Growth through) Diversification
48. Utilizes people - values - and systems to continously change and improve its performance.
Network Structure
Learning Organization
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Conceptual Skill
49. Growing within the same business area
Competitive Advantage
Action Research
Synergy
(Growth through)Concentration
50. Choosing the first satisfactory alternative that comes to attention
Network Structure
Decision
Satisficing Decision
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)