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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 display of negative - irrational attitudes toward woman or minorities.
Law of Effect
Budget
Prejudice
Contingency Thinking
2. Approaches problems in a rational and analytical fashion.
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Job Enrichment
Systematic Thinking
Escalating Commitment
3. A comprehensive plan guiding resource allocation to achieve long-term organizational goals.
Ethnocentrism
Strategy
Importing
Performance effectiveness
4. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.
Hygiene (factor)
Ethnocentrism
Performance
Middle Manager
5. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.
Globalization
Psychological Contract
nAch
Uncertain Environment
6. The requirement to show performance results to a supervisor
nAch
Accountability
Functional Strategy
SoC (Span of Control)
7. Uses permanent and temporary cross-functional teams to improve lateral relations
Team Structure
Middle Manager
Delegation
nAch
8. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
nPower
Middle Manager
Prejudice
Performance efficiency
9. A special strength that gives an organization a competitive advantage.
Core Competency
Uncertain Environment
Risk Environment
Intellectual Capital
10. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.
Uncertain Environment
Planning
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Management Science
11. Found in job content - such as a sense of achievement - recognition - or personal growth.
Core Competency
Manager
Globalization
Satisfier (factor)
12. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
nAch
Psychological Contract
Planned Change
Controlling
13. An unexpected problem that can lead to disaster if not resolved quickly and appropriately
Job Enrichment
Budget
Prejudice
Crisis
14. WOT
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Culture
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Action Research
15. A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities
Business Strategy
Groupthink
Law of Effect
Crisis
16. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.
Direction
Problem Solving
Competitive Advantage
Top Manager
17. The overall quality of human experiences in the workplace.
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Hygiene (factor)
nAff
Performance effectiveness
18. Use IT to collect - organize - and distribute data for use in decision making
Strategy
Boundaryless Organizations
nAff
Information System
19. The number of subordinates directly reporting to a manager
Prejudice
Groupthink
SoC (Span of Control)
Knowledge Worker
20. The process of taking a new idea and putting it into practice.
Innovation
Automation
Virtual Organization
Law of Effect
21. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.
Heuristics
Human Skill
Middle Manager
Synergy
22. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.
Mentoring
Productivity
Middle Manager
Human Skill
23. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.
P Decision (Programmed)
Technical Skill
Synergy
Importing
24. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
Job Enrichment
Direction
Prejudice
nAch
25. A standing plan that communicates guidelines for decisions and action
Knowledge Worker
SoC (Span of Control)
Policy
Automation
26. Aligns the organization with anticipated future challenges.
Planned Change
Business Strategy
Synergy
PC
27. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Strategy
Incremental Change
Escalating Commitment
Synergy
28. Making managerial decisions based on the situation; Management is not a science.
Management Science
Innovation
Organizing
Contingency Thinking
29. A person who supports and is responsible for the work of others.
Motivation
Risk Environment
Manager
PC
30. Strategies for simplifying decision-making
Decision
Heuristics
Productivity
Type A Personality
31. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
Budget
SoC (Span of Control)
Planning
Network Structure
32. Local products are sold abroad
Exporting
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
PC
33. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Business Strategy
Law of Effect
Prejudice
(Growth through) Diversification
34. Brings together members from different functional departments
Uncertain Environment
Contingency Thinking
Core Competency
Cross functional team
35. The phase during which a situation is prepared for change.
Planning
Job Enrichment
Unfreezing
Innovation
36. Ability x Support x Effort
Performance
Unfreezing
Cross functional team
Coaching
37. Involves an experienced person offering performance advice to a less-experienced person
Functional Strategy
Job Performance
Coaching
Job Burnout
38. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.
Cross functional team
Lifelong Learning
Type A Personality
Intellectual Capital
39. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
(Growth through) Diversification
SoC (Span of Control)
Organizing
Refreezing
40. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share
Planning
nAff
BCG Matrix
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
41. When a business function is contracted to an outside supplier
Outsourcing
Technical Skill
Core Competency
Type A Personality
42. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem
P Decision (Programmed)
Incremental Change
Performance effectiveness
Accountability
43. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
Planned Change
Policy
Training
Functional Strategy
44. Growing within the same business area
(Growth through)Concentration
Incremental Change
Motivation
Type A Personality
45. A lack of communication and coordination across functions.
Lifelong Learning
Planning
Functional Chimney Problem
Policy
46. The process of arousing enthusiasm and directing efforts towards organizational goals.
PC
Job Performance
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Leading
47. Links all persons with successively higher levels of authority.
CoC (Chain of Command)
Action Research
Strategy
Incremental Change
48. The tendancy to consider one's culture as superior to others
Ethnocentrism
Strategy
Coaching
Job Performance
49. Involves identifying and taking action to resolve problems
Systematic Thinking
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Problem Solving
Escalating Commitment
50. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented
Cross functional team
Certain Environment
Fred Fiedler
Training