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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Choosing the first satisfactory alternative that comes to attention
Ethnocentrism
Culture
Hygiene (factor)
Satisficing Decision
2. A plan that commits resources to projects or activities
Team Structure
Management Science
Boundaryless Organizations
Budget
3. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.
Training
nAff
P Decision (Programmed)
Intellectual Capital
4. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
Exporting
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Job Enrichment
Conceptual Skill
5. Lacking so much information that it is difficult to assign probabilities to the outcomes of alternatives.
Automation
BCG Matrix
Workforce Diversity
Uncertain Environment
6. The process of taking a new idea and putting it into practice.
Crisis
Innovation
Groupthink
Mentoring
7. Uses permanent and temporary cross-functional teams to improve lateral relations
Systematic Thinking
Direction
Team Structure
Human Skill
8. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.
Top Manager
Need
Hygiene (factor)
(Growth through) Diversification
9. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Technical Skill
Skill
Prejudice
Incremental Change
10. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
Top Manager
(Growth through)Concentration
Job Performance
Competitive Advantage
11. A person who supports and is responsible for the work of others.
Manager
Action Research
Boundaryless Organizations
Crisis
12. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones
Team Structure
Mentoring
BCG Matrix
Escalating Commitment
13. Involves reducing the scale of current operations
Motivation
Satisficing Decision
BCG Matrix
Retrenchment Strategy
14. A lack of communication and coordination across functions.
Middle Manager
Functional Chimney Problem
Culture
Corporate Strategy
15. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
Problem Solving
Refreezing
Performance efficiency
nAff
16. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share
Escalating Commitment
Job Burnout
BCG Matrix
Performance
17. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Systematic Thinking
Law of Effect
P Decision (Programmed)
Business Strategy
18. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
Core Competency
Exporting
(Growth through) Diversification
Policy
19. Utilizes people - values - and systems to continously change and improve its performance.
Uncertain Environment
Certain Environment
Learning Organization
Direction
20. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
Performance efficiency
Leading
Skill
Competitive Advantage
21. An unexpected problem that can lead to disaster if not resolved quickly and appropriately
(Growth through) Diversification
Job Performance
Crisis
Prejudice
22. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.
Motivation
Human Skill
Coaching
Satisficing Decision
23. Aligns the organization with anticipated future challenges.
Unfreezing
Planned Change
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Uncertain Environment
24. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.
BCG Matrix
Middle Manager
Planning
Direction
25. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.
Direction
Information System
Need
Competitive Advantage
26. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.
Delegation
Strategy
Technical Skill
Action Research
27. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Procedure
CoC (Chain of Command)
Satisfier (factor)
nPower
28. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.
Problem Solving
Corporate Strategy
Satisficing Decision
Management Science
29. Local products are sold abroad
Exporting
Type A Personality
SoC (Span of Control)
Crisis
30. The phase at which change is stabilized.
Refreezing
Modeling
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Job Performance
31. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
Hygiene (factor)
Knowledge Worker
Unfreezing
Functional Strategy
32. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
Decision
Type A Personality
Budget
Team Structure
33. The application of operant conditioning to influence human behaviour at work.
Refreezing
Virtual Organization
nAch
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
34. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
Planning
Groupthink
Law of Effect
nPower
35. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
Strategy
Escalating Commitment
Lifelong Learning
Manager
36. Approaches problems in a flexible and spontaneous fashion.
Satisfier (factor)
Controlling
Intuitive Thinking
Skill
37. Provides learning opportunities to acquire and improve job related skills
Training
Performance efficiency
Strategy
Cross functional team
38. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
Hygiene (factor)
Risk Environment
Mentoring
Refreezing
39. Is by acquiring suppliers and distributors
Planned Change
Reactive Change
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Synergy
40. The display of negative - irrational attitudes toward woman or minorities.
Strategy
Intuitive Thinking
Mentoring
Prejudice
41. The tendancy to consider one's culture as superior to others
Contingency Thinking
Subsystem
Ethnocentrism
Modeling
42. The overall quality of human experiences in the workplace.
Automation
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Strategy
Contingency Thinking
43. Found in job content - such as a sense of achievement - recognition - or personal growth.
Prejudice
Job Burnout
Workforce Diversity
Satisfier (factor)
44. Involves working at home or other places using computer links to the office.
Controlling
Strategy
Workforce Diversity
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
45. When a business function is contracted to an outside supplier
Outsourcing
Strategy
Procedure
Controlling
46. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.
Information System
Productivity
Type A Personality
Action Research
47. An unfulfilled physiological or psychological desire.
Need
Heuristics
Productivity
Satisficing Decision
48. The ability to translate knowledge into action that results in desired performance
Competitive Advantage
P Decision (Programmed)
Skill
Innovation
49. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
Cross functional team
Conceptual Skill
Manager
nPower
50. Ability x Support x Effort
Synergy
Automation
Performance
Productivity