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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. The process of assigning tasks - allocating resources - and arranging activities to implement plans.
Conceptual Skill
Contingency Thinking
Knowledge Worker
Organizing
2. An unfulfilled physiological or psychological desire.
Crisis
Incremental Change
Need
Retrenchment Strategy
3. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Innovation
Globalization
4. A lack of communication and coordination across functions.
Contingency Thinking
Leading
Uncertain Environment
Functional Chimney Problem
5. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
Refreezing
Ethnocentrism
Planning
Modeling
6. An invisible barrier limiting the advancement of woman and minorities
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Unfreezing
Exporting
Retrenchment Strategy
7. Offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.
Innovation
Certain Environment
Outsourcing
Team Structure
8. The display of negative - irrational attitudes toward woman or minorities.
Team Structure
Action Research
Prejudice
Crisis
9. Links all persons with successively higher levels of authority.
Procedure
CoC (Chain of Command)
Type A Personality
Business Strategy
10. When a business function is contracted to an outside supplier
Outsourcing
Ethics
Risk Environment
Globalization
11. Choosing the first satisfactory alternative that comes to attention
Competitive Advantage
Functional Strategy
Satisficing Decision
Virtual Organization
12. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share
BCG Matrix
Boundaryless Organizations
Human Skill
Delegation
13. A person who supports and is responsible for the work of others.
Unfreezing
Organizing
Cross functional team
Manager
14. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people
Virtual Organization
nAff
Business Strategy
Decision
15. A plan that commits resources to projects or activities
Performance
Network Structure
nAch
Budget
16. A comprehensive plan guiding resource allocation to achieve long-term organizational goals.
Strategy
Performance effectiveness
Motivation
Satisfier (factor)
17. WOT
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
PC
(Growth through)Concentration
Automation
18. The ability to think analytically and solve complex problems to the benefit of everyone involved.
Job Enrichment
Fred Fiedler
Conceptual Skill
Systematic Thinking
19. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Hygiene (factor)
Procedure
Virtual Organization
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
20. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
Knowledge Worker
P Decision (Programmed)
Skill
Delegation
21. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
nAch
(Growth through)Concentration
Escalating Commitment
Risk Environment
22. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
Lifelong Learning
Need
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Planning
23. Responds to events as or after they occur.
Corporate Strategy
(Growth through)Concentration
Reactive Change
Cross functional team
24. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.
Performance
Human Skill
Modeling
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
25. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Importing
Workforce Diversity
26. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.
Team Structure
Corporate Strategy
Planning
Satisfier (factor)
27. The ability to translate knowledge into action that results in desired performance
Performance
Job Performance
Heuristics
Skill
28. Local products are sold abroad
Boundaryless Organizations
Ethics
Procedure
Exporting
29. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.
Decision
Psychological Contract
Refreezing
Incremental Change
30. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.
Performance effectiveness
Management Science
Network Structure
Incremental Change
31. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Crisis
Psychological Contract
Type A Personality
32. The process of measuring performance and taking action to ensure desired results
Accountability
BCG Matrix
Controlling
Human Skill
33. A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities
Groupthink
Leading
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
34. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
Escalating Commitment
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Job Performance
Performance efficiency
35. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
Systematic Thinking
Competitive Advantage
nAff
Workforce Diversity
36. Involves reducing the scale of current operations
Mentoring
Retrenchment Strategy
Functional Strategy
Need
37. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.
Fred Fiedler
Intellectual Capital
Ethnocentrism
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
38. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.
Lifelong Learning
Reactive Change
Action Research
Contingency Thinking
39. Provides learning opportunities to acquire and improve job related skills
nPower
Skill
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Training
40. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.
Risk Environment
Direction
P Decision (Programmed)
Policy
41. Results in a major and comprehensive redirection of the organization.
Job Enrichment
Manager
Heuristics
Transformational Change
42. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
Learning Organization
Psychological Contract
Training
(Growth through) Diversification
43. A shared set of beliefs - values - and patterns of behavior common to a group of people
Outsourcing
Culture
Type A Personality
PC
44. The phase during which a situation is prepared for change.
Unfreezing
Strategy
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Workforce Diversity
45. Involves working at home or other places using computer links to the office.
Incremental Change
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Technical Skill
46. The tendancy to consider one's culture as superior to others
Ethnocentrism
Budget
Technical Skill
Top Manager
47. Describes the differences among workers in gender - race - age - ethnic culture - able-bodiness - religious affiliation - and sexual orientation.
Modeling
Groupthink
Satisficing Decision
Workforce Diversity
48. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Business Strategy
Performance effectiveness
Action Research
Intuitive Thinking
49. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Incremental Change
Uncertain Environment
Systematic Thinking
Escalating Commitment
50. Physical and Mental exhaustion that can be incapacitating personally and in respect to work.
Job Burnout
Escalating Commitment
Organizing
Corporate Strategy