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1. A shared set of beliefs - values - and patterns of behavior common to a group of people
Culture
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Need
Virtual Organization
2. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.
Technical Skill
Strategy
Hygiene (factor)
Organizing
3. An unfulfilled physiological or psychological desire.
Lifelong Learning
Need
nAff
Planning
4. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
nPower
Subsystem
Business Strategy
Psychological Contract
5. A standing plan that communicates guidelines for decisions and action
Policy
Motivation
Manager
Certain Environment
6. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.
(Growth through) Diversification
Human Skill
Network Structure
Satisficing Decision
7. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Contingency Thinking
Technical Skill
Manager
Procedure
8. Lacking so much information that it is difficult to assign probabilities to the outcomes of alternatives.
Action Research
(Growth through) Diversification
Uncertain Environment
Type A Personality
9. The quantity and quality of work performance - with resource utilization considered.
Job Enrichment
Budget
Training
Productivity
10. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
Motivation
Planning
PC
Knowledge Worker
11. Ability x Support x Effort
Leading
Performance
Performance efficiency
Need
12. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Problem Solving
Exporting
Transformational Change
Importing
13. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share
BCG Matrix
Culture
(Growth through)Concentration
Information System
14. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.
P Decision (Programmed)
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Contingency Thinking
Direction
15. Involves an experienced person offering performance advice to a less-experienced person
Delegation
Coaching
Innovation
Incremental Change
16. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Escalating Commitment
Prejudice
Training
17. Uses permanent and temporary cross-functional teams to improve lateral relations
Team Structure
SoC (Span of Control)
Productivity
Skill
18. Links all persons with successively higher levels of authority.
CoC (Chain of Command)
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Human Skill
Workforce Diversity
19. Is by acquiring suppliers and distributors
(Growth through) Diversification
Satisficing Decision
Middle Manager
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
20. The tendancy to consider one's culture as superior to others
Coaching
Fred Fiedler
Ethnocentrism
Job Burnout
21. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Incremental Change
Problem Solving
Psychological Contract
22. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action
Refreezing
Decision
Management Science
Training
23. The process of assigning tasks - allocating resources - and arranging activities to implement plans.
nPower
Ethics
Organizing
Manager
24. A plan that commits resources to projects or activities
Systematic Thinking
Reactive Change
Budget
Certain Environment
25. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Business Strategy
Incremental Change
Problem Solving
Human Skill
26. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.
Corporate Strategy
Need
Ethics
Uncertain Environment
27. Sets standards as to what is good or bad or right or wrong in ones conduct.
Law of Effect
BCG Matrix
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Ethics
28. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.
CoC (Chain of Command)
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Boundaryless Organizations
Certain Environment
29. The creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
Action Research
Planned Change
Synergy
Organizing
30. Offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.
Decision
Certain Environment
Culture
Virtual Organization
31. Involves identifying and taking action to resolve problems
Learning Organization
Problem Solving
Policy
Conceptual Skill
32. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment
Certain Environment
Performance effectiveness
Job Enrichment
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
33. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.
Technical Skill
Coaching
Functional Chimney Problem
Problem Solving
34. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.
Outsourcing
Action Research
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Middle Manager
35. Aligns the organization with anticipated future challenges.
Organizing
Policy
Planned Change
Exporting
36. Utilizes people - values - and systems to continously change and improve its performance.
(Growth through)Concentration
Learning Organization
Leading
Importing
37. An unexpected problem that can lead to disaster if not resolved quickly and appropriately
Job Burnout
Coaching
Crisis
Certain Environment
38. The application of operant conditioning to influence human behaviour at work.
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Outsourcing
Corporate Strategy
Manager
39. The requirement to show performance results to a supervisor
Accountability
Globalization
Information System
Importing
40. Involves reducing the scale of current operations
Intuitive Thinking
Law of Effect
Management Science
Retrenchment Strategy
41. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
Delegation
nAch
Top Manager
Fred Fiedler
42. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
(Growth through) Diversification
Transformational Change
43. The total mechanization of a job.
Planned Change
Automation
Direction
Performance
44. Uses IT (information technology) to link with networks of outside suppliers and service contractors
Intuitive Thinking
nAch
Human Skill
Network Structure
45. A shifting network of strategic alliances that are engaged as needed
Cross functional team
Reactive Change
Performance effectiveness
Virtual Organization
46. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
Innovation
Refreezing
BCG Matrix
Competitive Advantage
47. The phase at which change is stabilized.
Technical Skill
Incremental Change
Accountability
Refreezing
48. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
Job Enrichment
Network Structure
(Growth through) Diversification
Performance efficiency
49. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
Risk Environment
Policy
Corporate Strategy
nAff
50. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.
Decision
Hygiene (factor)
Management Science
Risk Environment
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