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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.
Business Strategy
Automation
Procedure
Mentoring
2. Describes the differences among workers in gender - race - age - ethnic culture - able-bodiness - religious affiliation - and sexual orientation.
Workforce Diversity
Subsystem
Intuitive Thinking
Innovation
3. Aligns the organization with anticipated future challenges.
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Planned Change
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Law of Effect
4. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
Outsourcing
SoC (Span of Control)
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Functional Strategy
5. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented
Fred Fiedler
Contingency Thinking
Boundaryless Organizations
Synergy
6. Sets standards as to what is good or bad or right or wrong in ones conduct.
Ethics
Exporting
Corporate Strategy
Outsourcing
7. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
Virtual Organization
Functional Chimney Problem
Knowledge Worker
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
8. Choosing the first satisfactory alternative that comes to attention
Satisficing Decision
Subsystem
Budget
Law of Effect
9. Uses IT (information technology) to link with networks of outside suppliers and service contractors
Satisfier (factor)
Refreezing
Network Structure
Accountability
10. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.
Procedure
Team Structure
nAch
Direction
11. A comprehensive plan guiding resource allocation to achieve long-term organizational goals.
Direction
BCG Matrix
Functional Chimney Problem
Strategy
12. Behaviour followed by pleasant consequences is like to be repeated; behaviour followed by unpleasant work conditions is not.
Ethnocentrism
Job Burnout
Groupthink
Law of Effect
13. Use IT to collect - organize - and distribute data for use in decision making
Functional Chimney Problem
Information System
Intellectual Capital
Refreezing
14. Lacking so much information that it is difficult to assign probabilities to the outcomes of alternatives.
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Uncertain Environment
Competitive Advantage
Reactive Change
15. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
Conceptual Skill
nPower
Procedure
Globalization
16. Approaches problems in a flexible and spontaneous fashion.
Organizing
Mentoring
Job Performance
Intuitive Thinking
17. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action
Decision
P Decision (Programmed)
Satisficing Decision
Training
18. The ability to think analytically and solve complex problems to the benefit of everyone involved.
Satisficing Decision
Culture
Budget
Conceptual Skill
19. The ability to translate knowledge into action that results in desired performance
Skill
Unfreezing
Groupthink
BCG Matrix
20. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.
Top Manager
Uncertain Environment
Organizing
Subsystem
21. The process of arousing enthusiasm and directing efforts towards organizational goals.
Top Manager
Prejudice
Leading
Training
22. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
Type A Personality
Policy
Globalization
Lifelong Learning
23. A work unit or smaller component within a larger organization
Culture
Subsystem
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Hygiene (factor)
24. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
Type A Personality
Technical Skill
Systematic Thinking
Action Research
25. An unexpected problem that can lead to disaster if not resolved quickly and appropriately
Crisis
Competitive Advantage
Coaching
Delegation
26. The requirement to show performance results to a supervisor
Need
Middle Manager
Accountability
Groupthink
27. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
Satisfier (factor)
Importing
PC
Training
28. The application of operant conditioning to influence human behaviour at work.
Decision
Retrenchment Strategy
Intuitive Thinking
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
29. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones
Budget
Synergy
Mentoring
Performance
30. Involves working at home or other places using computer links to the office.
Competitive Advantage
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Job Burnout
Knowledge Worker
31. Physical and Mental exhaustion that can be incapacitating personally and in respect to work.
Certain Environment
Job Burnout
Ethnocentrism
Unfreezing
32. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people
nAff
Performance
Functional Strategy
Skill
33. Ability x Support x Effort
Problem Solving
Team Structure
Performance
Training
34. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Procedure
nPower
Reactive Change
PC
35. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.
Decision
Controlling
Procedure
Hygiene (factor)
36. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
Prejudice
Psychological Contract
Planning
Need
37. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.
Technical Skill
nPower
Action Research
Virtual Organization
38. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment
Performance effectiveness
Learning Organization
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Mentoring
39. Responds to events as or after they occur.
Middle Manager
Fred Fiedler
Reactive Change
Certain Environment
40. The continuation of a course of action even though it is not working
Innovation
Cross functional team
Escalating Commitment
Mentoring
41. Uses permanent and temporary cross-functional teams to improve lateral relations
Team Structure
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Coaching
Controlling
42. The tendancy to consider one's culture as superior to others
(Growth through) Diversification
Modeling
Ethnocentrism
Contingency Thinking
43. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
Decision
Functional Chimney Problem
Competitive Advantage
Automation
44. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
BCG Matrix
Prejudice
Risk Environment
Fred Fiedler
45. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.
Human Skill
Culture
Unfreezing
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
46. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem
Reactive Change
Psychological Contract
Hygiene (factor)
P Decision (Programmed)
47. The creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
Synergy
Performance effectiveness
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
CoC (Chain of Command)
48. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.
Delegation
Job Burnout
Incremental Change
Intuitive Thinking
49. An invisible barrier limiting the advancement of woman and minorities
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Performance
Outsourcing
Controlling
50. The display of negative - irrational attitudes toward woman or minorities.
Subsystem
Prejudice
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Cross functional team