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Business Leadership

Subject : 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. The total mechanization of a job.






2. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem






3. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.






4. Offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.






5. A work unit or smaller component within a larger organization






6. The process of arousing enthusiasm and directing efforts towards organizational goals.






7. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share






8. Lacking so much information that it is difficult to assign probabilities to the outcomes of alternatives.






9. Uses permanent and temporary cross-functional teams to improve lateral relations






10. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale






11. A standing plan that communicates guidelines for decisions and action






12. The application of operant conditioning to influence human behaviour at work.






13. The overall quality of human experiences in the workplace.






14. The quantity and quality of work performance - with resource utilization considered.






15. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.






16. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.






17. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people






18. The display of negative - irrational attitudes toward woman or minorities.






19. The tendancy to consider one's culture as superior to others






20. A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities






21. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment






22. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.






23. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.






24. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented






25. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.






26. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others






27. Utilizes people - values - and systems to continously change and improve its performance.






28. The process of assigning tasks - allocating resources - and arranging activities to implement plans.






29. Provides learning opportunities to acquire and improve job related skills






30. The process of taking a new idea and putting it into practice.






31. The process of measuring performance and taking action to ensure desired results






32. Approaches problems in a rational and analytical fashion.






33. Ability x Support x Effort






34. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.






35. WOT






36. Responds to events as or after they occur.






37. Results in a major and comprehensive redirection of the organization.






38. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.






39. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas






40. The requirement to show performance results to a supervisor






41. Making managerial decisions based on the situation; Management is not a science.






42. Involves an experienced person offering performance advice to a less-experienced person






43. Use IT to collect - organize - and distribute data for use in decision making






44. A shared set of beliefs - values - and patterns of behavior common to a group of people






45. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action






46. The number of subordinates directly reporting to a manager






47. Choosing the first satisfactory alternative that comes to attention






48. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people






49. Involves working at home or other places using computer links to the office.






50. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.