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Business Leadership
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business-skills
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A plan that commits resources to projects or activities
Budget
Middle Manager
Mentoring
nAff
2. A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities
Lifelong Learning
Business Strategy
Groupthink
Incremental Change
3. A work unit or smaller component within a larger organization
Policy
P Decision (Programmed)
Network Structure
Subsystem
4. Found in job content - such as a sense of achievement - recognition - or personal growth.
Innovation
Importing
Satisfier (factor)
Hygiene (factor)
5. Utilizes people - values - and systems to continously change and improve its performance.
Certain Environment
Subsystem
Learning Organization
Manager
6. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people
Human Skill
Top Manager
Innovation
nAff
7. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
Organizing
Heuristics
(Growth through) Diversification
Skill
8. The display of negative - irrational attitudes toward woman or minorities.
(Growth through) Diversification
Incremental Change
Coaching
Prejudice
9. The requirement to show performance results to a supervisor
Groupthink
Direction
Accountability
Satisfier (factor)
10. Describes the differences among workers in gender - race - age - ethnic culture - able-bodiness - religious affiliation - and sexual orientation.
Contingency Thinking
Intellectual Capital
Modeling
Workforce Diversity
11. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
Direction
Automation
Job Performance
SoC (Span of Control)
12. A person who supports and is responsible for the work of others.
Job Enrichment
Manager
nAch
Importing
13. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
Modeling
Ethnocentrism
Problem Solving
Learning Organization
14. An invisible barrier limiting the advancement of woman and minorities
Importing
Organizing
CoC (Chain of Command)
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
15. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
Functional Strategy
Coaching
Planned Change
Globalization
16. Is by acquiring suppliers and distributors
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
P Decision (Programmed)
Fred Fiedler
Business Strategy
17. Approaches problems in a flexible and spontaneous fashion.
Planned Change
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Intuitive Thinking
Cross functional team
18. A lack of communication and coordination across functions.
Technical Skill
Functional Chimney Problem
Accountability
Heuristics
19. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Business Strategy
Satisfier (factor)
Corporate Strategy
Escalating Commitment
20. Brings together members from different functional departments
Middle Manager
Cross functional team
Risk Environment
Knowledge Worker
21. Responds to events as or after they occur.
Reactive Change
Satisficing Decision
Job Performance
Psychological Contract
22. The tendancy to consider one's culture as superior to others
Network Structure
Ethnocentrism
nAff
(Growth through)Concentration
23. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
CoC (Chain of Command)
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Risk Environment
Training
24. Sets standards as to what is good or bad or right or wrong in ones conduct.
Delegation
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Synergy
Ethics
25. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.
Importing
Law of Effect
Direction
Fred Fiedler
26. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
Lifelong Learning
Job Enrichment
Team Structure
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
27. The phase at which change is stabilized.
Refreezing
Motivation
Importing
Transformational Change
28. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
nAch
Competitive Advantage
Action Research
Controlling
29. Growing within the same business area
Lifelong Learning
Knowledge Worker
Hygiene (factor)
(Growth through)Concentration
30. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Strategy
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Decision
Importing
31. A standing plan that communicates guidelines for decisions and action
Business Strategy
Workforce Diversity
Policy
Importing
32. Approaches problems in a rational and analytical fashion.
Conceptual Skill
Systematic Thinking
P Decision (Programmed)
Importing
33. The application of operant conditioning to influence human behaviour at work.
Direction
Unfreezing
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
34. Local products are sold abroad
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Procedure
Accountability
Exporting
35. Involves identifying and taking action to resolve problems
Performance effectiveness
Organizing
Problem Solving
SoC (Span of Control)
36. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.
Conceptual Skill
Top Manager
Virtual Organization
Escalating Commitment
37. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
Subsystem
Strategy
Globalization
Lifelong Learning
38. Involves working at home or other places using computer links to the office.
Cross functional team
Human Skill
Type A Personality
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
39. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.
(Growth through)Concentration
Action Research
Importing
Synergy
40. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.
Intellectual Capital
Psychological Contract
Manager
PC
41. Offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.
Accountability
Procedure
Job Enrichment
Certain Environment
42. The quantity and quality of work performance - with resource utilization considered.
Productivity
Performance
Escalating Commitment
Crisis
43. The total mechanization of a job.
Automation
Manager
Procedure
Boundaryless Organizations
44. Aligns the organization with anticipated future challenges.
Business Strategy
Planned Change
Core Competency
Satisficing Decision
45. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
Problem Solving
nAff
Competitive Advantage
Innovation
46. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Procedure
Business Strategy
Job Enrichment
Modeling
47. The process of assigning tasks - allocating resources - and arranging activities to implement plans.
Functional Strategy
Organizing
Lifelong Learning
Team Structure
48. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Policy
Manager
49. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
Type A Personality
Training
Globalization
Exporting
50. Behaviour followed by pleasant consequences is like to be repeated; behaviour followed by unpleasant work conditions is not.
Fred Fiedler
Refreezing
Law of Effect
Middle Manager