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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. The ability to think analytically and solve complex problems to the benefit of everyone involved.
(Growth through)Concentration
Outsourcing
Strategy
Conceptual Skill
2. Making managerial decisions based on the situation; Management is not a science.
Functional Chimney Problem
Uncertain Environment
Contingency Thinking
Business Strategy
3. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Retrenchment Strategy
Action Research
Business Strategy
Heuristics
4. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.
Crisis
Satisfier (factor)
Controlling
Management Science
5. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.
Escalating Commitment
Job Enrichment
Modeling
Hygiene (factor)
6. The creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
Synergy
Risk Environment
Job Burnout
nAff
7. The quantity and quality of work performance - with resource utilization considered.
Ethics
nAff
Procedure
Productivity
8. Lacking so much information that it is difficult to assign probabilities to the outcomes of alternatives.
Budget
Delegation
Top Manager
Uncertain Environment
9. Results in a major and comprehensive redirection of the organization.
Transformational Change
Heuristics
Coaching
Law of Effect
10. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment
Crisis
CoC (Chain of Command)
Performance effectiveness
Prejudice
11. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
Corporate Strategy
(Growth through) Diversification
Crisis
Network Structure
12. A person who supports and is responsible for the work of others.
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Manager
Refreezing
Crisis
13. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.
Core Competency
Job Performance
Incremental Change
Action Research
14. Expectancy x Instrumentality x Valence
Unfreezing
Motivation
Ethnocentrism
Performance effectiveness
15. An invisible barrier limiting the advancement of woman and minorities
Functional Chimney Problem
Outsourcing
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
(Growth through) Diversification
16. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.
Unfreezing
Psychological Contract
Planned Change
Crisis
17. Growing within the same business area
Accountability
(Growth through)Concentration
Refreezing
P Decision (Programmed)
18. The process of taking a new idea and putting it into practice.
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Innovation
Reactive Change
Procedure
19. Approaches problems in a rational and analytical fashion.
Decision
Innovation
Boundaryless Organizations
Systematic Thinking
20. Uses permanent and temporary cross-functional teams to improve lateral relations
P Decision (Programmed)
Team Structure
SoC (Span of Control)
Ethnocentrism
21. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
Groupthink
Type A Personality
Productivity
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
22. The process of measuring performance and taking action to ensure desired results
Globalization
Performance
Controlling
Outsourcing
23. A shared set of beliefs - values - and patterns of behavior common to a group of people
Importing
Top Manager
Culture
Escalating Commitment
24. Involves working at home or other places using computer links to the office.
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Modeling
Accountability
Budget
25. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
PC
Ethnocentrism
Leading
Planning
26. A special strength that gives an organization a competitive advantage.
P Decision (Programmed)
Core Competency
Performance
Management Science
27. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
Satisfier (factor)
Satisficing Decision
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Globalization
28. The requirement to show performance results to a supervisor
Job Burnout
Accountability
Management Science
Subsystem
29. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones
Synergy
Mentoring
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
CoC (Chain of Command)
30. Sets standards as to what is good or bad or right or wrong in ones conduct.
Automation
Incremental Change
Ethics
Satisficing Decision
31. Brings together members from different functional departments
Cross functional team
nAff
Unfreezing
Innovation
32. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share
BCG Matrix
Planning
Contingency Thinking
Intuitive Thinking
33. The application of operant conditioning to influence human behaviour at work.
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Intellectual Capital
Technical Skill
Coaching
34. A shifting network of strategic alliances that are engaged as needed
Virtual Organization
Productivity
Planned Change
P Decision (Programmed)
35. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Importing
Culture
Prejudice
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
36. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
Intellectual Capital
Risk Environment
Innovation
Performance efficiency
37. Use IT to collect - organize - and distribute data for use in decision making
Information System
Job Burnout
Motivation
Top Manager
38. Utilizes people - values - and systems to continously change and improve its performance.
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
nAch
Learning Organization
Fred Fiedler
39. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.
nPower
Refreezing
Competitive Advantage
Middle Manager
40. Is by acquiring suppliers and distributors
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Training
41. The overall quality of human experiences in the workplace.
PC
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Innovation
Fred Fiedler
42. A plan that commits resources to projects or activities
Budget
Conceptual Skill
Accountability
Decision
43. WOT
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Job Enrichment
(Growth through)Concentration
Hygiene (factor)
44. Found in job content - such as a sense of achievement - recognition - or personal growth.
Law of Effect
Satisfier (factor)
Ethnocentrism
Globalization
45. A standing plan that communicates guidelines for decisions and action
Innovation
Policy
Automation
Coaching
46. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people
nAff
Escalating Commitment
nPower
Transformational Change
47. A lack of communication and coordination across functions.
Functional Chimney Problem
Risk Environment
Importing
Groupthink
48. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
PC
Innovation
(Growth through) Diversification
Crisis
49. Behaviour followed by pleasant consequences is like to be repeated; behaviour followed by unpleasant work conditions is not.
Hygiene (factor)
PC
Corporate Strategy
Law of Effect
50. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
Action Research
Functional Strategy
Network Structure
Performance