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Business Leadership
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1. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
Competitive Advantage
Leading
Cross functional team
Virtual Organization
2. The display of negative - irrational attitudes toward woman or minorities.
Uncertain Environment
Prejudice
Virtual Organization
Incremental Change
3. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
PC
Globalization
Lifelong Learning
4. Strategies for simplifying decision-making
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Policy
Action Research
Heuristics
5. Links all persons with successively higher levels of authority.
Contingency Thinking
CoC (Chain of Command)
Human Skill
Problem Solving
6. The ability to think analytically and solve complex problems to the benefit of everyone involved.
Conceptual Skill
Certain Environment
Team Structure
Technical Skill
7. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
PC
Learning Organization
Importing
Virtual Organization
8. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Fred Fiedler
Incremental Change
Performance effectiveness
Job Performance
9. The process of assigning tasks - allocating resources - and arranging activities to implement plans.
Organizing
Risk Environment
Modeling
Coaching
10. The process of arousing enthusiasm and directing efforts towards organizational goals.
Knowledge Worker
Decision
Leading
P Decision (Programmed)
11. Provides learning opportunities to acquire and improve job related skills
Training
Skill
Competitive Advantage
Business Strategy
12. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.
Transformational Change
Globalization
Team Structure
Technical Skill
13. Utilizes people - values - and systems to continously change and improve its performance.
Top Manager
Accountability
Learning Organization
Corporate Strategy
14. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
Performance
Planning
Transformational Change
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
15. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented
Fred Fiedler
Strategy
Psychological Contract
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
16. Uses permanent and temporary cross-functional teams to improve lateral relations
Satisficing Decision
Organizing
Team Structure
Certain Environment
17. A person who supports and is responsible for the work of others.
Unfreezing
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Modeling
Manager
18. Offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.
Transformational Change
Certain Environment
Retrenchment Strategy
Action Research
19. Ability x Support x Effort
Functional Strategy
Performance
Manager
Human Skill
20. Behaviour followed by pleasant consequences is like to be repeated; behaviour followed by unpleasant work conditions is not.
Cross functional team
Law of Effect
Incremental Change
Planned Change
21. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.
Refreezing
Psychological Contract
CoC (Chain of Command)
Automation
22. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
Information System
SoC (Span of Control)
nPower
Delegation
23. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
Training
Unfreezing
Boundaryless Organizations
Knowledge Worker
24. The process of measuring performance and taking action to ensure desired results
Risk Environment
Importing
Controlling
Conceptual Skill
25. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
Law of Effect
Subsystem
Job Performance
Training
26. Involves identifying and taking action to resolve problems
Problem Solving
nAff
Business Strategy
nAch
27. The phase at which change is stabilized.
Refreezing
Culture
Type A Personality
Budget
28. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
Performance efficiency
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
(Growth through) Diversification
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
29. Physical and Mental exhaustion that can be incapacitating personally and in respect to work.
Strategy
SoC (Span of Control)
Outsourcing
Job Burnout
30. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
Reactive Change
Boundaryless Organizations
Certain Environment
Modeling
31. Involves reducing the scale of current operations
Risk Environment
Retrenchment Strategy
Innovation
Skill
32. A standing plan that communicates guidelines for decisions and action
Organizing
Policy
Controlling
Motivation
33. Results in a major and comprehensive redirection of the organization.
Middle Manager
Transformational Change
Job Performance
Outsourcing
34. Growing within the same business area
Training
Hygiene (factor)
(Growth through)Concentration
Knowledge Worker
35. A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities
Controlling
Unfreezing
nPower
Groupthink
36. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
Fred Fiedler
Job Enrichment
Innovation
Middle Manager
37. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Crisis
Uncertain Environment
Escalating Commitment
Procedure
38. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Boundaryless Organizations
Intuitive Thinking
Information System
Business Strategy
39. Involves working at home or other places using computer links to the office.
Functional Strategy
Planned Change
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
P Decision (Programmed)
40. Involves an experienced person offering performance advice to a less-experienced person
Type A Personality
Team Structure
Coaching
Leading
41. The phase during which a situation is prepared for change.
Unfreezing
Corporate Strategy
Direction
Lifelong Learning
42. Expectancy x Instrumentality x Valence
Satisficing Decision
Mentoring
Functional Chimney Problem
Motivation
43. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share
BCG Matrix
Subsystem
CoC (Chain of Command)
Performance efficiency
44. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Strategy
Performance effectiveness
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Importing
45. When a business function is contracted to an outside supplier
Synergy
Policy
PC
Outsourcing
46. The requirement to show performance results to a supervisor
Performance
Performance effectiveness
Accountability
PC
47. An invisible barrier limiting the advancement of woman and minorities
Information System
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Conceptual Skill
Job Enrichment
48. Brings together members from different functional departments
Transformational Change
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Cross functional team
nAff
49. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.
Intellectual Capital
Performance efficiency
Skill
Outsourcing
50. A lack of communication and coordination across functions.
Exporting
Functional Chimney Problem
Prejudice
Team Structure
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