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Business Leadership
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business-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Corporate Strategy
Importing
Job Performance
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
2. A shifting network of strategic alliances that are engaged as needed
Management Science
Leading
Knowledge Worker
Virtual Organization
3. Uses IT (information technology) to link with networks of outside suppliers and service contractors
Network Structure
Ethnocentrism
Knowledge Worker
Functional Strategy
4. The ability to translate knowledge into action that results in desired performance
Satisfier (factor)
Contingency Thinking
Skill
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
5. Provides learning opportunities to acquire and improve job related skills
Planning
Hygiene (factor)
Training
Middle Manager
6. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.
Technical Skill
(Growth through) Diversification
Training
P Decision (Programmed)
7. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
Heuristics
Hygiene (factor)
Delegation
Lifelong Learning
8. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem
Coaching
P Decision (Programmed)
Leading
Contingency Thinking
9. Making managerial decisions based on the situation; Management is not a science.
Contingency Thinking
Policy
Competitive Advantage
Synergy
10. The overall quality of human experiences in the workplace.
Network Structure
Policy
Job Burnout
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
11. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem
Boundaryless Organizations
Strategy
Incremental Change
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
12. Local products are sold abroad
(Growth through)Concentration
Delegation
Exporting
Refreezing
13. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
Globalization
Leading
CoC (Chain of Command)
Need
14. The process of measuring performance and taking action to ensure desired results
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Hygiene (factor)
Innovation
Controlling
15. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
Subsystem
Modeling
Workforce Diversity
Job Enrichment
16. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented
Skill
Team Structure
Fred Fiedler
Uncertain Environment
17. The display of negative - irrational attitudes toward woman or minorities.
Importing
Prejudice
Information System
Retrenchment Strategy
18. A standing plan that communicates guidelines for decisions and action
Subsystem
Information System
PC
Policy
19. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
nAch
Mentoring
Reactive Change
PC
20. An unfulfilled physiological or psychological desire.
Need
Automation
Reactive Change
Exporting
21. Brings together members from different functional departments
Cross functional team
Direction
nAch
Problem Solving
22. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
nAch
Human Skill
Systematic Thinking
Cross functional team
23. Involves working at home or other places using computer links to the office.
Subsystem
Accountability
Team Structure
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
24. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
Accountability
Training
Functional Strategy
Systematic Thinking
25. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.
Leading
Middle Manager
Strategy
Ethnocentrism
26. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share
BCG Matrix
Cross functional team
Fred Fiedler
Competitive Advantage
27. Behaviour followed by pleasant consequences is like to be repeated; behaviour followed by unpleasant work conditions is not.
Conceptual Skill
Boundaryless Organizations
Incremental Change
Law of Effect
28. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
Workforce Diversity
Retrenchment Strategy
Competitive Advantage
Contingency Thinking
29. The tendancy to consider one's culture as superior to others
Information System
Leading
Ethnocentrism
Virtual Organization
30. When a business function is contracted to an outside supplier
Importing
Performance
SoC (Span of Control)
Outsourcing
31. WOT
Skill
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
nAff
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
32. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.
Action Research
Human Skill
Crisis
Cross functional team
33. A plan that commits resources to projects or activities
Exporting
Synergy
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Budget
34. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action
Decision
Reactive Change
Business Strategy
Human Skill
35. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people
Network Structure
nAff
Performance effectiveness
Certain Environment
36. The total mechanization of a job.
Automation
Decision
Cross functional team
Globalization
37. Ability x Support x Effort
Groupthink
Outsourcing
Performance
Type A Personality
38. Involves an experienced person offering performance advice to a less-experienced person
Prejudice
SoC (Span of Control)
Coaching
Top Manager
39. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.
Intuitive Thinking
Team Structure
Direction
Functional Chimney Problem
40. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
Globalization
Crisis
Performance effectiveness
Job Performance
41. The ability to think analytically and solve complex problems to the benefit of everyone involved.
Satisfier (factor)
Conceptual Skill
Team Structure
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
42. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Accountability
Business Strategy
Job Performance
Skill
43. A special strength that gives an organization a competitive advantage.
CoC (Chain of Command)
Problem Solving
Core Competency
Organizing
44. A comprehensive plan guiding resource allocation to achieve long-term organizational goals.
Virtual Organization
Coaching
Transformational Change
Strategy
45. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.
Boundaryless Organizations
P Decision (Programmed)
Globalization
Culture
46. A lack of communication and coordination across functions.
Planning
Lifelong Learning
Functional Chimney Problem
Satisfier (factor)
47. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
Skill
Groupthink
Performance efficiency
Policy
48. A shared set of beliefs - values - and patterns of behavior common to a group of people
Human Skill
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Culture
Learning Organization
49. Utilizes people - values - and systems to continously change and improve its performance.
Type A Personality
SoC (Span of Control)
Learning Organization
PC
50. A person who supports and is responsible for the work of others.
PC
Intuitive Thinking
Core Competency
Manager