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Business Leadership
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business-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Strategies for simplifying decision-making
Prejudice
Heuristics
Controlling
Network Structure
2. Expectancy x Instrumentality x Valence
Ethics
Skill
Motivation
Psychological Contract
3. A comprehensive plan guiding resource allocation to achieve long-term organizational goals.
Problem Solving
Strategy
Unfreezing
Job Performance
4. Brings together members from different functional departments
Top Manager
nAch
Controlling
Cross functional team
5. The process of arousing enthusiasm and directing efforts towards organizational goals.
Boundaryless Organizations
Leading
Middle Manager
Coaching
6. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.
Leading
Middle Manager
Lifelong Learning
Business Strategy
7. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
Lifelong Learning
Satisficing Decision
Refreezing
Planned Change
8. A shifting network of strategic alliances that are engaged as needed
SoC (Span of Control)
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Virtual Organization
(Growth through)Concentration
9. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.
Intuitive Thinking
Top Manager
Escalating Commitment
Intellectual Capital
10. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment
Information System
Performance effectiveness
Globalization
Groupthink
11. A plan that commits resources to projects or activities
nPower
Leading
Budget
Innovation
12. The overall quality of human experiences in the workplace.
Lifelong Learning
Culture
Mentoring
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
13. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
Virtual Organization
Hygiene (factor)
SoC (Span of Control)
Functional Strategy
14. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
Type A Personality
Synergy
Network Structure
Policy
15. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
Job Enrichment
Planning
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Certain Environment
16. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
Accountability
nPower
Functional Strategy
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
17. The process of taking a new idea and putting it into practice.
Innovation
Globalization
Crisis
Law of Effect
18. Responds to events as or after they occur.
Reactive Change
Psychological Contract
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Knowledge Worker
19. The creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
Planned Change
Synergy
Performance
Functional Chimney Problem
20. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
(Growth through)Concentration
Corporate Strategy
Systematic Thinking
Risk Environment
21. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Business Strategy
Manager
SoC (Span of Control)
Subsystem
22. The tendancy to consider one's culture as superior to others
Planned Change
Management Science
Ethnocentrism
Direction
23. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Escalating Commitment
Hygiene (factor)
Functional Chimney Problem
24. Approaches problems in a rational and analytical fashion.
Organizing
Systematic Thinking
Knowledge Worker
Type A Personality
25. The phase during which a situation is prepared for change.
Policy
Unfreezing
Direction
Boundaryless Organizations
26. Behaviour followed by pleasant consequences is like to be repeated; behaviour followed by unpleasant work conditions is not.
Incremental Change
Law of Effect
Competitive Advantage
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
27. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
Law of Effect
Unfreezing
Planning
Job Performance
28. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.
Workforce Diversity
Psychological Contract
Performance efficiency
Uncertain Environment
29. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
BCG Matrix
Subsystem
Modeling
Motivation
30. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem
P Decision (Programmed)
Network Structure
Problem Solving
PC
31. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.
Groupthink
Conceptual Skill
Management Science
Satisfier (factor)
32. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.
Synergy
Modeling
Type A Personality
Boundaryless Organizations
33. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Performance efficiency
Importing
Budget
Cross functional team
34. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.
Groupthink
Prejudice
Job Performance
Technical Skill
35. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
Risk Environment
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Strategy
Globalization
36. Growing within the same business area
Groupthink
(Growth through)Concentration
Accountability
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
37. Offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.
Certain Environment
Retrenchment Strategy
Job Burnout
Planned Change
38. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share
Business Strategy
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
BCG Matrix
Delegation
39. Uses permanent and temporary cross-functional teams to improve lateral relations
Procedure
Functional Chimney Problem
Team Structure
nAch
40. A lack of communication and coordination across functions.
Business Strategy
Escalating Commitment
Functional Chimney Problem
Problem Solving
41. Local products are sold abroad
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Exporting
SoC (Span of Control)
Risk Environment
42. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Manager
Competitive Advantage
Procedure
Groupthink
43. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
Business Strategy
Virtual Organization
Top Manager
Competitive Advantage
44. Involves reducing the scale of current operations
(Growth through)Concentration
Retrenchment Strategy
Lifelong Learning
Job Burnout
45. Lacking so much information that it is difficult to assign probabilities to the outcomes of alternatives.
Systematic Thinking
Uncertain Environment
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Network Structure
46. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.
Uncertain Environment
Corporate Strategy
PC
Procedure
47. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
Performance
Groupthink
PC
Cross functional team
48. A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Policy
Groupthink
Refreezing
49. Sets standards as to what is good or bad or right or wrong in ones conduct.
Manager
Satisficing Decision
Exporting
Ethics
50. The ability to think analytically and solve complex problems to the benefit of everyone involved.
Uncertain Environment
P Decision (Programmed)
Functional Chimney Problem
Conceptual Skill