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1. Brings together members from different functional departments
Skill
Core Competency
Human Skill
Cross functional team
2. Results in a major and comprehensive redirection of the organization.
Transformational Change
Conceptual Skill
Performance effectiveness
(Growth through)Concentration
3. A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities
Performance effectiveness
CoC (Chain of Command)
Core Competency
Groupthink
4. Uses permanent and temporary cross-functional teams to improve lateral relations
Workforce Diversity
Team Structure
Prejudice
Delegation
5. A plan that commits resources to projects or activities
nAch
Budget
nAff
Groupthink
6. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.
Learning Organization
Boundaryless Organizations
Strategy
Planned Change
7. Growing within the same business area
Satisfier (factor)
Technical Skill
(Growth through)Concentration
Network Structure
8. Involves identifying and taking action to resolve problems
Retrenchment Strategy
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Business Strategy
Problem Solving
9. A comprehensive plan guiding resource allocation to achieve long-term organizational goals.
Strategy
nAff
Problem Solving
Technical Skill
10. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Middle Manager
Decision
CoC (Chain of Command)
Business Strategy
11. A shared set of beliefs - values - and patterns of behavior common to a group of people
Functional Strategy
Culture
Decision
Performance
12. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented
Performance efficiency
Need
Problem Solving
Fred Fiedler
13. The process of assigning tasks - allocating resources - and arranging activities to implement plans.
Organizing
Training
Subsystem
Certain Environment
14. Offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.
Skill
Information System
Knowledge Worker
Certain Environment
15. Approaches problems in a flexible and spontaneous fashion.
Decision
Uncertain Environment
Transformational Change
Intuitive Thinking
16. The tendancy to consider one's culture as superior to others
Strategy
(Growth through)Concentration
Job Performance
Ethnocentrism
17. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Knowledge Worker
Incremental Change
Heuristics
18. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem
Innovation
BCG Matrix
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
19. Behaviour followed by pleasant consequences is like to be repeated; behaviour followed by unpleasant work conditions is not.
Law of Effect
Job Performance
Satisfier (factor)
Outsourcing
20. Sets standards as to what is good or bad or right or wrong in ones conduct.
Ethics
Type A Personality
Conceptual Skill
Transformational Change
21. The process of measuring performance and taking action to ensure desired results
Importing
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Controlling
Satisfier (factor)
22. The phase at which change is stabilized.
Learning Organization
Refreezing
Performance effectiveness
Heuristics
23. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
Decision
Heuristics
Job Enrichment
Retrenchment Strategy
24. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.
Management Science
nPower
Certain Environment
Problem Solving
25. Local products are sold abroad
P Decision (Programmed)
Escalating Commitment
(Growth through)Concentration
Exporting
26. The display of negative - irrational attitudes toward woman or minorities.
Incremental Change
Prejudice
Cross functional team
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
27. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
Modeling
Coaching
Learning Organization
Performance efficiency
28. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.
Middle Manager
Network Structure
Hygiene (factor)
Action Research
29. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
Procedure
Globalization
Top Manager
PC
30. Found in job content - such as a sense of achievement - recognition - or personal growth.
Cross functional team
Satisfier (factor)
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Fred Fiedler
31. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Performance efficiency
Network Structure
(Growth through)Concentration
32. The creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
Problem Solving
P Decision (Programmed)
Strategy
Synergy
33. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.
Technical Skill
Job Performance
Culture
Leading
34. Choosing the first satisfactory alternative that comes to attention
Outsourcing
Job Burnout
Satisficing Decision
Certain Environment
35. The ability to think analytically and solve complex problems to the benefit of everyone involved.
Satisficing Decision
Globalization
Leading
Conceptual Skill
36. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment
Performance effectiveness
Job Performance
Learning Organization
Performance efficiency
37. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
Strategy
Technical Skill
Lifelong Learning
Uncertain Environment
38. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
Risk Environment
Need
Technical Skill
Lifelong Learning
39. The ability to translate knowledge into action that results in desired performance
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Retrenchment Strategy
Escalating Commitment
Skill
40. Links all persons with successively higher levels of authority.
Accountability
nPower
Controlling
CoC (Chain of Command)
41. A shifting network of strategic alliances that are engaged as needed
CoC (Chain of Command)
Job Burnout
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Virtual Organization
42. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.
Delegation
Satisficing Decision
Outsourcing
Accountability
43. Ability x Support x Effort
Performance
nAff
Accountability
Business Strategy
44. Physical and Mental exhaustion that can be incapacitating personally and in respect to work.
Certain Environment
Job Burnout
Knowledge Worker
Innovation
45. Strategies for simplifying decision-making
Satisfier (factor)
Heuristics
Retrenchment Strategy
Human Skill
46. The number of subordinates directly reporting to a manager
Top Manager
SoC (Span of Control)
Job Burnout
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
47. The total mechanization of a job.
Manager
(Growth through) Diversification
Automation
Reactive Change
48. A person who supports and is responsible for the work of others.
Prejudice
PC
Manager
Coaching
49. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
Importing
(Growth through)Concentration
Competitive Advantage
Innovation
50. The process of taking a new idea and putting it into practice.
Functional Chimney Problem
BCG Matrix
Team Structure
Innovation
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