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Business Leadership
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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. A work unit or smaller component within a larger organization
Human Skill
Uncertain Environment
Coaching
Subsystem
2. When a business function is contracted to an outside supplier
Cross functional team
Performance effectiveness
Importing
Outsourcing
3. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
PC
nPower
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Manager
4. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.
Human Skill
Uncertain Environment
Business Strategy
Technical Skill
5. The phase during which a situation is prepared for change.
Core Competency
nAch
Unfreezing
Coaching
6. Expectancy x Instrumentality x Valence
Escalating Commitment
Motivation
Core Competency
Contingency Thinking
7. The creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
Synergy
(Growth through) Diversification
Law of Effect
Contingency Thinking
8. Strategies for simplifying decision-making
nAch
Heuristics
Uncertain Environment
Middle Manager
9. Use IT to collect - organize - and distribute data for use in decision making
Middle Manager
Problem Solving
Information System
Direction
10. Uses IT (information technology) to link with networks of outside suppliers and service contractors
Skill
Risk Environment
(Growth through) Diversification
Network Structure
11. A special strength that gives an organization a competitive advantage.
Core Competency
Importing
Synergy
Functional Chimney Problem
12. The process of measuring performance and taking action to ensure desired results
Accountability
Modeling
Job Burnout
Controlling
13. Describes the differences among workers in gender - race - age - ethnic culture - able-bodiness - religious affiliation - and sexual orientation.
Psychological Contract
Organizing
Workforce Diversity
Information System
14. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem
P Decision (Programmed)
Fred Fiedler
PC
Performance
15. A shared set of beliefs - values - and patterns of behavior common to a group of people
Top Manager
Outsourcing
Incremental Change
Culture
16. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.
Corporate Strategy
CoC (Chain of Command)
Organizing
nAff
17. Making managerial decisions based on the situation; Management is not a science.
Contingency Thinking
Corporate Strategy
Need
Strategy
18. The application of operant conditioning to influence human behaviour at work.
Ethics
Conceptual Skill
Top Manager
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
19. WOT
Outsourcing
Job Burnout
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Satisfier (factor)
20. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
Reactive Change
Competitive Advantage
Mentoring
Business Strategy
21. The process of assigning tasks - allocating resources - and arranging activities to implement plans.
Organizing
Exporting
Functional Strategy
Satisficing Decision
22. Ability x Support x Effort
Ethics
CoC (Chain of Command)
Performance
Network Structure
23. Involves reducing the scale of current operations
Reactive Change
Retrenchment Strategy
Performance effectiveness
Network Structure
24. Is by acquiring suppliers and distributors
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Hygiene (factor)
P Decision (Programmed)
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
25. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment
Motivation
Outsourcing
Network Structure
Performance effectiveness
26. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
Action Research
Uncertain Environment
Information System
nAch
27. The process of arousing enthusiasm and directing efforts towards organizational goals.
Escalating Commitment
Need
Leading
Cross functional team
28. Growing within the same business area
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Ethics
(Growth through)Concentration
Skill
29. A person who supports and is responsible for the work of others.
Competitive Advantage
Problem Solving
Manager
Boundaryless Organizations
30. Local products are sold abroad
Job Enrichment
Exporting
Training
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
31. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
Team Structure
Hygiene (factor)
Certain Environment
Planning
32. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
nPower
Job Enrichment
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Job Burnout
33. A lack of communication and coordination across functions.
Training
Outsourcing
Prejudice
Functional Chimney Problem
34. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share
Controlling
Automation
Workforce Diversity
BCG Matrix
35. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.
Technical Skill
Manager
Corporate Strategy
Contingency Thinking
36. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Core Competency
Contingency Thinking
(Growth through)Concentration
37. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Importing
Ethnocentrism
Planned Change
Fred Fiedler
38. The process of taking a new idea and putting it into practice.
Organizing
Workforce Diversity
Human Skill
Innovation
39. Responds to events as or after they occur.
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Reactive Change
Network Structure
Certain Environment
40. Offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.
Uncertain Environment
Team Structure
Information System
Certain Environment
41. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Policy
Satisficing Decision
Contingency Thinking
Business Strategy
42. The total mechanization of a job.
Automation
Team Structure
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Transformational Change
43. Lacking so much information that it is difficult to assign probabilities to the outcomes of alternatives.
Law of Effect
Prejudice
Uncertain Environment
Skill
44. Uses permanent and temporary cross-functional teams to improve lateral relations
Team Structure
Culture
Performance effectiveness
Decision
45. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
Type A Personality
Ethnocentrism
(Growth through)Concentration
Coaching
46. The phase at which change is stabilized.
Leading
Productivity
Refreezing
Fred Fiedler
47. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.
Hygiene (factor)
Heuristics
nAff
Functional Strategy
48. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action
Decision
Prejudice
Top Manager
(Growth through)Concentration
49. The quantity and quality of work performance - with resource utilization considered.
Delegation
Performance efficiency
Reactive Change
Productivity
50. Approaches problems in a rational and analytical fashion.
Policy
nPower
Cross functional team
Systematic Thinking