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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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1. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Uncertain Environment
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Business Strategy
Technical Skill
2. The process of assigning tasks - allocating resources - and arranging activities to implement plans.
Strategy
Organizing
Automation
nAff
3. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
BCG Matrix
Escalating Commitment
Type A Personality
Leading
4. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.
Psychological Contract
Motivation
(Growth through) Diversification
Team Structure
5. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people
nPower
Outsourcing
nAff
Intuitive Thinking
6. The process of arousing enthusiasm and directing efforts towards organizational goals.
Unfreezing
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Leading
Satisficing Decision
7. WOT
Knowledge Worker
Law of Effect
Planning
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
8. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.
Outsourcing
Boundaryless Organizations
Ethnocentrism
Accountability
9. Offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Contingency Thinking
Certain Environment
(Growth through) Diversification
10. A plan that commits resources to projects or activities
Subsystem
Controlling
Budget
Functional Chimney Problem
11. A special strength that gives an organization a competitive advantage.
Ethics
Core Competency
Risk Environment
Importing
12. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
PC
Uncertain Environment
Competitive Advantage
Functional Strategy
13. The number of subordinates directly reporting to a manager
(Growth through) Diversification
Need
Skill
SoC (Span of Control)
14. Involves reducing the scale of current operations
Retrenchment Strategy
Team Structure
Ethics
Satisfier (factor)
15. A shared set of beliefs - values - and patterns of behavior common to a group of people
Business Strategy
Culture
Satisficing Decision
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
16. An invisible barrier limiting the advancement of woman and minorities
(Growth through) Diversification
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Planned Change
Corporate Strategy
17. An unfulfilled physiological or psychological desire.
Need
Innovation
Subsystem
Ethnocentrism
18. Describes the differences among workers in gender - race - age - ethnic culture - able-bodiness - religious affiliation - and sexual orientation.
Globalization
Workforce Diversity
Intellectual Capital
Knowledge Worker
19. Brings together members from different functional departments
SoC (Span of Control)
Controlling
Cross functional team
Modeling
20. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.
Core Competency
Hygiene (factor)
Action Research
nAch
21. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
PC
Transformational Change
nAch
Performance efficiency
22. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
Psychological Contract
Job Enrichment
Accountability
Controlling
23. Choosing the first satisfactory alternative that comes to attention
Globalization
Satisficing Decision
Synergy
Performance
24. Making managerial decisions based on the situation; Management is not a science.
Functional Chimney Problem
Escalating Commitment
Controlling
Contingency Thinking
25. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action
Conceptual Skill
Budget
Decision
Psychological Contract
26. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem
Culture
Knowledge Worker
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Manager
27. Results in a major and comprehensive redirection of the organization.
Transformational Change
P Decision (Programmed)
Satisficing Decision
Intuitive Thinking
28. Approaches problems in a rational and analytical fashion.
Systematic Thinking
Policy
Lifelong Learning
Technical Skill
29. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
Lifelong Learning
Network Structure
Heuristics
Globalization
30. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.
Ethics
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Delegation
Hygiene (factor)
31. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
Culture
P Decision (Programmed)
Globalization
Synergy
32. Local products are sold abroad
Conceptual Skill
Performance
Team Structure
Exporting
33. The continuation of a course of action even though it is not working
Groupthink
Escalating Commitment
Virtual Organization
Mentoring
34. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Importing
Lifelong Learning
Retrenchment Strategy
Globalization
35. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.
Risk Environment
Outsourcing
Cross functional team
Human Skill
36. Ability x Support x Effort
Unfreezing
Prejudice
Performance
Automation
37. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented
Fred Fiedler
Culture
Ethnocentrism
Refreezing
38. The application of operant conditioning to influence human behaviour at work.
Exporting
Boundaryless Organizations
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Innovation
39. A shifting network of strategic alliances that are engaged as needed
Virtual Organization
Organizing
nAch
Heuristics
40. The process of taking a new idea and putting it into practice.
Outsourcing
Action Research
Psychological Contract
Innovation
41. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
Skill
Risk Environment
nAff
Performance effectiveness
42. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.
Technical Skill
Skill
Ethics
Knowledge Worker
43. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.
Performance effectiveness
Management Science
Reactive Change
Globalization
44. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.
Policy
Competitive Advantage
Middle Manager
Performance efficiency
45. A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities
Groupthink
Crisis
Law of Effect
(Growth through)Concentration
46. The process of measuring performance and taking action to ensure desired results
Controlling
Strategy
Productivity
Satisficing Decision
47. A work unit or smaller component within a larger organization
Workforce Diversity
Subsystem
Job Burnout
Culture
48. The total mechanization of a job.
Human Skill
Automation
Innovation
Direction
49. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
(Growth through) Diversification
Functional Chimney Problem
(Growth through)Concentration
Competitive Advantage
50. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.
Productivity
Information System
Delegation
Problem Solving