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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. Responds to events as or after they occur.
Human Skill
Contingency Thinking
Reactive Change
Accountability
2. A shared set of beliefs - values - and patterns of behavior common to a group of people
Culture
Certain Environment
Uncertain Environment
Planning
3. Offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.
Business Strategy
Certain Environment
Job Enrichment
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
4. A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities
Groupthink
Performance effectiveness
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Fred Fiedler
5. An unfulfilled physiological or psychological desire.
Team Structure
Prejudice
Synergy
Need
6. The tendancy to consider one's culture as superior to others
Ethnocentrism
Heuristics
Knowledge Worker
Problem Solving
7. The quantity and quality of work performance - with resource utilization considered.
Core Competency
Uncertain Environment
Productivity
Automation
8. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Incremental Change
Automation
Uncertain Environment
PC
9. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
Action Research
Globalization
Decision
SoC (Span of Control)
10. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people
Learning Organization
Need
Automation
nAff
11. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.
Performance
Synergy
nAff
Middle Manager
12. The phase at which change is stabilized.
Subsystem
Refreezing
Workforce Diversity
Management Science
13. A comprehensive plan guiding resource allocation to achieve long-term organizational goals.
Modeling
nAch
Strategy
Team Structure
14. The number of subordinates directly reporting to a manager
SoC (Span of Control)
(Growth through) Diversification
PC
Technical Skill
15. Behaviour followed by pleasant consequences is like to be repeated; behaviour followed by unpleasant work conditions is not.
Law of Effect
Information System
Automation
Psychological Contract
16. Growing within the same business area
Subsystem
Groupthink
SoC (Span of Control)
(Growth through)Concentration
17. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.
Planned Change
Boundaryless Organizations
Need
Budget
18. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
Modeling
Incremental Change
Exporting
Top Manager
19. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
Risk Environment
Performance
Type A Personality
Management Science
20. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.
Budget
Functional Chimney Problem
Procedure
Management Science
21. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
Risk Environment
Refreezing
Performance efficiency
Job Enrichment
22. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented
Information System
Job Enrichment
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Fred Fiedler
23. Utilizes people - values - and systems to continously change and improve its performance.
Outsourcing
Manager
Learning Organization
Information System
24. Ability x Support x Effort
Accountability
Law of Effect
Performance
nPower
25. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
Groupthink
Lifelong Learning
nAch
Satisfier (factor)
26. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.
Middle Manager
P Decision (Programmed)
Motivation
Corporate Strategy
27. WOT
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Contingency Thinking
Corporate Strategy
Escalating Commitment
28. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Groupthink
Delegation
Boundaryless Organizations
29. Uses permanent and temporary cross-functional teams to improve lateral relations
Synergy
Team Structure
Performance effectiveness
Middle Manager
30. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
Direction
Learning Organization
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Functional Strategy
31. A special strength that gives an organization a competitive advantage.
Core Competency
Functional Chimney Problem
Planned Change
Knowledge Worker
32. Local products are sold abroad
Ethics
Job Enrichment
Motivation
Exporting
33. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.
Outsourcing
Planned Change
Psychological Contract
(Growth through) Diversification
34. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
Prejudice
Fred Fiedler
Ethics
Competitive Advantage
35. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Fred Fiedler
Procedure
Importing
(Growth through)Concentration
36. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
Type A Personality
Hygiene (factor)
Importing
Exporting
37. Aligns the organization with anticipated future challenges.
Planned Change
Corporate Strategy
Decision
Organizing
38. Found in job content - such as a sense of achievement - recognition - or personal growth.
Modeling
Satisfier (factor)
Training
Satisficing Decision
39. Involves an experienced person offering performance advice to a less-experienced person
Outsourcing
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Coaching
Planning
40. The ability to think analytically and solve complex problems to the benefit of everyone involved.
Information System
Synergy
Corporate Strategy
Conceptual Skill
41. Strategies for simplifying decision-making
Retrenchment Strategy
Exporting
Heuristics
Lifelong Learning
42. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.
Human Skill
Globalization
Training
Leading
43. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
nPower
Top Manager
Management Science
Planning
44. Describes the differences among workers in gender - race - age - ethnic culture - able-bodiness - religious affiliation - and sexual orientation.
Hygiene (factor)
Policy
Mentoring
Workforce Diversity
45. Involves reducing the scale of current operations
Motivation
Competitive Advantage
Leading
Retrenchment Strategy
46. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Boundaryless Organizations
Procedure
Business Strategy
Lifelong Learning
47. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Psychological Contract
Procedure
Policy
nPower
48. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment
Performance effectiveness
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Law of Effect
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
49. A standing plan that communicates guidelines for decisions and action
Planned Change
Management Science
Policy
Accountability
50. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
BCG Matrix
Leading
Performance effectiveness