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Business Leadership

Subject : 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. Utilizes people - values - and systems to continously change and improve its performance.






2. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems






3. Offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.






4. Involves identifying and taking action to resolve problems






5. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.






6. Provides learning opportunities to acquire and improve job related skills






7. Brings together members from different functional departments






8. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.






9. The phase at which change is stabilized.






10. Involves reducing the scale of current operations






11. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.






12. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.






13. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented






14. The total mechanization of a job.






15. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem






16. Describes the differences among workers in gender - race - age - ethnic culture - able-bodiness - religious affiliation - and sexual orientation.






17. Is by acquiring suppliers and distributors






18. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment






19. Involves working at home or other places using computer links to the office.






20. The process of measuring performance and taking action to ensure desired results






21. Physical and Mental exhaustion that can be incapacitating personally and in respect to work.






22. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action






23. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.






24. A standing plan that communicates guidelines for decisions and action






25. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.






26. The tendancy to consider one's culture as superior to others






27. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.






28. The phase during which a situation is prepared for change.






29. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.






30. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.






31. Aligns the organization with anticipated future challenges.






32. WOT






33. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share






34. Expectancy x Instrumentality x Valence






35. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.






36. A work unit or smaller component within a larger organization






37. The creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.






38. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.






39. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.






40. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem






41. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.






42. A special strength that gives an organization a competitive advantage.






43. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.






44. The requirement to show performance results to a supervisor






45. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.






46. The quantity and quality of work performance - with resource utilization considered.






47. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale






48. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities






49. The process of taking a new idea and putting it into practice.






50. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people