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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. Brings together members from different functional departments
Innovation
Competitive Advantage
Action Research
Cross functional team
2. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people
Network Structure
Intellectual Capital
Cross functional team
nAff
3. A lack of communication and coordination across functions.
Functional Chimney Problem
Action Research
Intuitive Thinking
Law of Effect
4. The process of arousing enthusiasm and directing efforts towards organizational goals.
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Psychological Contract
Leading
Problem Solving
5. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.
Job Enrichment
Intellectual Capital
Middle Manager
Job Performance
6. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
Certain Environment
Globalization
Planning
Retrenchment Strategy
7. An unfulfilled physiological or psychological desire.
Type A Personality
Intellectual Capital
Need
PC
8. Approaches problems in a rational and analytical fashion.
Systematic Thinking
Innovation
Globalization
Uncertain Environment
9. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
Groupthink
Ethnocentrism
Type A Personality
Team Structure
10. A standing plan that communicates guidelines for decisions and action
Policy
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Planned Change
Business Strategy
11. Involves an experienced person offering performance advice to a less-experienced person
Management Science
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Coaching
nAch
12. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
Performance efficiency
Fred Fiedler
nAch
Functional Strategy
13. The process of assigning tasks - allocating resources - and arranging activities to implement plans.
Ethnocentrism
Team Structure
Virtual Organization
Organizing
14. The continuation of a course of action even though it is not working
Intuitive Thinking
Learning Organization
Performance effectiveness
Escalating Commitment
15. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.
Escalating Commitment
Knowledge Worker
Retrenchment Strategy
Psychological Contract
16. Responds to events as or after they occur.
Reactive Change
Crisis
Outsourcing
Transformational Change
17. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
P Decision (Programmed)
Job Enrichment
Productivity
Procedure
18. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.
Accountability
Importing
Heuristics
Delegation
19. Uses IT (information technology) to link with networks of outside suppliers and service contractors
Boundaryless Organizations
Procedure
Network Structure
Escalating Commitment
20. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
PC
Unfreezing
Team Structure
Delegation
21. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.
Human Skill
Globalization
Refreezing
Knowledge Worker
22. Use IT to collect - organize - and distribute data for use in decision making
Reactive Change
Workforce Diversity
Heuristics
Information System
23. Physical and Mental exhaustion that can be incapacitating personally and in respect to work.
SoC (Span of Control)
Conceptual Skill
Functional Chimney Problem
Job Burnout
24. An unexpected problem that can lead to disaster if not resolved quickly and appropriately
Crisis
Job Burnout
Controlling
Satisficing Decision
25. A plan that commits resources to projects or activities
Budget
Middle Manager
Crisis
Ethics
26. Lacking so much information that it is difficult to assign probabilities to the outcomes of alternatives.
Accountability
Organizing
SoC (Span of Control)
Uncertain Environment
27. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
BCG Matrix
Productivity
Planning
Conceptual Skill
28. The phase during which a situation is prepared for change.
Modeling
Knowledge Worker
Unfreezing
Satisficing Decision
29. Results in a major and comprehensive redirection of the organization.
Transformational Change
Delegation
SoC (Span of Control)
Need
30. Aligns the organization with anticipated future challenges.
Planned Change
Controlling
Organizing
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
31. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment
Systematic Thinking
Performance effectiveness
Boundaryless Organizations
Job Burnout
32. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.
nPower
Hygiene (factor)
Corporate Strategy
Psychological Contract
33. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
Ethics
(Growth through) Diversification
Reactive Change
Modeling
34. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
Systematic Thinking
Motivation
Functional Strategy
Procedure
35. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.
Intellectual Capital
Learning Organization
Motivation
Risk Environment
36. Is by acquiring suppliers and distributors
Procedure
Skill
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Top Manager
37. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.
Importing
Boundaryless Organizations
Automation
Middle Manager
38. An invisible barrier limiting the advancement of woman and minorities
Knowledge Worker
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Competitive Advantage
Intuitive Thinking
39. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.
Planning
Management Science
Satisficing Decision
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
40. The process of measuring performance and taking action to ensure desired results
SoC (Span of Control)
Controlling
Retrenchment Strategy
PC
41. The display of negative - irrational attitudes toward woman or minorities.
Network Structure
Prejudice
Planning
Importing
42. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
Hygiene (factor)
Knowledge Worker
Refreezing
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
43. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem
Uncertain Environment
Delegation
nPower
P Decision (Programmed)
44. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
CoC (Chain of Command)
Boundaryless Organizations
(Growth through) Diversification
Satisficing Decision
45. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.
Reactive Change
Procedure
Direction
Knowledge Worker
46. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Performance efficiency
Coaching
nPower
47. Sets standards as to what is good or bad or right or wrong in ones conduct.
Accountability
Ethnocentrism
Ethics
Information System
48. Strategies for simplifying decision-making
Problem Solving
Heuristics
Globalization
Systematic Thinking
49. Making managerial decisions based on the situation; Management is not a science.
Functional Strategy
Learning Organization
Network Structure
Contingency Thinking
50. Utilizes people - values - and systems to continously change and improve its performance.
Action Research
Contingency Thinking
Knowledge Worker
Learning Organization