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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. Is by acquiring suppliers and distributors
Workforce Diversity
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Contingency Thinking
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
2. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem
Knowledge Worker
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Network Structure
Policy
3. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action
Accountability
Manager
P Decision (Programmed)
Decision
4. Results in a major and comprehensive redirection of the organization.
Job Enrichment
Transformational Change
Importing
nAff
5. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.
PC
Human Skill
Organizing
Outsourcing
6. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.
Technical Skill
Middle Manager
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Satisfier (factor)
7. Behaviour followed by pleasant consequences is like to be repeated; behaviour followed by unpleasant work conditions is not.
Workforce Diversity
Escalating Commitment
Cross functional team
Law of Effect
8. Utilizes people - values - and systems to continously change and improve its performance.
Crisis
Job Burnout
Synergy
Learning Organization
9. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
(Growth through)Concentration
Modeling
Knowledge Worker
Incremental Change
10. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.
Unfreezing
Intellectual Capital
Skill
Leading
11. Use IT to collect - organize - and distribute data for use in decision making
Satisfier (factor)
Heuristics
Modeling
Information System
12. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
Performance efficiency
Outsourcing
Groupthink
Strategy
13. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Type A Personality
Decision
(Growth through) Diversification
14. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
Globalization
Productivity
Need
Intuitive Thinking
15. A standing plan that communicates guidelines for decisions and action
Cross functional team
Information System
Policy
Automation
16. An unfulfilled physiological or psychological desire.
Systematic Thinking
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Human Skill
Need
17. Physical and Mental exhaustion that can be incapacitating personally and in respect to work.
Functional Strategy
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Job Burnout
Retrenchment Strategy
18. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented
Fred Fiedler
Mentoring
PC
Ethics
19. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
nAch
Incremental Change
Coaching
Uncertain Environment
20. The process of measuring performance and taking action to ensure desired results
Organizing
Intellectual Capital
Controlling
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
21. Offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.
Skill
SoC (Span of Control)
Certain Environment
Exporting
22. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
nPower
Prejudice
Intellectual Capital
Job Burnout
23. A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities
Conceptual Skill
Management Science
Groupthink
CoC (Chain of Command)
24. The phase during which a situation is prepared for change.
Transformational Change
Unfreezing
Technical Skill
Top Manager
25. Links all persons with successively higher levels of authority.
CoC (Chain of Command)
Outsourcing
Performance effectiveness
Systematic Thinking
26. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
Groupthink
Risk Environment
Contingency Thinking
Refreezing
27. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
Planning
Globalization
Incremental Change
Contingency Thinking
28. Making managerial decisions based on the situation; Management is not a science.
Modeling
Conceptual Skill
Contingency Thinking
Performance
29. The application of operant conditioning to influence human behaviour at work.
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Ethics
Cross functional team
Coaching
30. The process of assigning tasks - allocating resources - and arranging activities to implement plans.
Exporting
Team Structure
Transformational Change
Organizing
31. Responds to events as or after they occur.
nAff
Refreezing
PC
Reactive Change
32. A comprehensive plan guiding resource allocation to achieve long-term organizational goals.
Strategy
Synergy
Conceptual Skill
Planning
33. The creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
Synergy
Subsystem
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Exporting
34. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
P Decision (Programmed)
Learning Organization
Job Performance
Job Burnout
35. The process of arousing enthusiasm and directing efforts towards organizational goals.
Need
Unfreezing
Leading
Fred Fiedler
36. Aligns the organization with anticipated future challenges.
Innovation
Hygiene (factor)
Planned Change
Psychological Contract
37. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Policy
Core Competency
Procedure
Manager
38. Describes the differences among workers in gender - race - age - ethnic culture - able-bodiness - religious affiliation - and sexual orientation.
Leading
Cross functional team
Network Structure
Workforce Diversity
39. Growing within the same business area
Escalating Commitment
Learning Organization
Procedure
(Growth through)Concentration
40. The ability to translate knowledge into action that results in desired performance
Hygiene (factor)
Ethics
Importing
Skill
41. Involves identifying and taking action to resolve problems
Manager
Delegation
Problem Solving
Uncertain Environment
42. The tendancy to consider one's culture as superior to others
Contingency Thinking
Productivity
Ethnocentrism
Satisficing Decision
43. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
Importing
Competitive Advantage
Performance efficiency
Management Science
44. A shared set of beliefs - values - and patterns of behavior common to a group of people
Reactive Change
Controlling
Culture
Type A Personality
45. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
Lifelong Learning
Strategy
Modeling
Incremental Change
46. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.
Hygiene (factor)
Conceptual Skill
Competitive Advantage
Leading
47. Approaches problems in a flexible and spontaneous fashion.
Intuitive Thinking
Competitive Advantage
Reactive Change
Learning Organization
48. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Functional Chimney Problem
Business Strategy
Productivity
Budget
49. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.
Reactive Change
Performance efficiency
Top Manager
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
50. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.
Technical Skill
Skill
Top Manager
Leading