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Business Leadership
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1. Making managerial decisions based on the situation; Management is not a science.
Psychological Contract
Performance
Contingency Thinking
Policy
2. The tendancy to consider one's culture as superior to others
Ethnocentrism
Corporate Strategy
Decision
Mentoring
3. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.
Crisis
Action Research
Virtual Organization
Knowledge Worker
4. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Importing
Motivation
Job Burnout
BCG Matrix
5. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
Functional Strategy
Importing
Certain Environment
Modeling
6. Provides learning opportunities to acquire and improve job related skills
Crisis
Training
(Growth through) Diversification
Motivation
7. A special strength that gives an organization a competitive advantage.
Delegation
Contingency Thinking
Groupthink
Core Competency
8. Involves an experienced person offering performance advice to a less-experienced person
Coaching
Certain Environment
Controlling
Functional Strategy
9. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
Innovation
Exporting
Globalization
Risk Environment
10. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.
Human Skill
Importing
Organizing
Procedure
11. An unexpected problem that can lead to disaster if not resolved quickly and appropriately
Crisis
Competitive Advantage
Job Burnout
Intuitive Thinking
12. Behaviour followed by pleasant consequences is like to be repeated; behaviour followed by unpleasant work conditions is not.
Decision
Law of Effect
nPower
Innovation
13. Involves reducing the scale of current operations
Ethics
Retrenchment Strategy
Innovation
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
14. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
Globalization
Performance efficiency
Prejudice
Need
15. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
nAch
Team Structure
Ethics
Innovation
16. A comprehensive plan guiding resource allocation to achieve long-term organizational goals.
Virtual Organization
Strategy
Information System
Top Manager
17. The total mechanization of a job.
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Training
Skill
Automation
18. The phase during which a situation is prepared for change.
Unfreezing
P Decision (Programmed)
Lifelong Learning
Accountability
19. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share
Procedure
BCG Matrix
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Accountability
20. Brings together members from different functional departments
Planning
Cross functional team
Psychological Contract
Information System
21. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
Satisfier (factor)
Training
Boundaryless Organizations
(Growth through) Diversification
22. WOT
Law of Effect
Controlling
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
(Growth through)Concentration
23. A plan that commits resources to projects or activities
Exporting
Budget
Team Structure
Productivity
24. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem
Subsystem
Type A Personality
P Decision (Programmed)
Competitive Advantage
25. A shifting network of strategic alliances that are engaged as needed
Strategy
Conceptual Skill
Job Performance
Virtual Organization
26. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action
Core Competency
Functional Chimney Problem
Decision
Performance
27. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.
Middle Manager
Problem Solving
Procedure
Unfreezing
28. The quantity and quality of work performance - with resource utilization considered.
Certain Environment
Ethics
Mentoring
Productivity
29. Involves identifying and taking action to resolve problems
Need
Psychological Contract
Contingency Thinking
Problem Solving
30. The process of arousing enthusiasm and directing efforts towards organizational goals.
Motivation
Business Strategy
Performance
Leading
31. The continuation of a course of action even though it is not working
Team Structure
Escalating Commitment
Fred Fiedler
Skill
32. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
Type A Personality
Uncertain Environment
Technical Skill
Business Strategy
33. The requirement to show performance results to a supervisor
Strategy
nAch
Accountability
Top Manager
34. The phase at which change is stabilized.
Satisficing Decision
Refreezing
Conceptual Skill
Modeling
35. The number of subordinates directly reporting to a manager
Core Competency
Outsourcing
Psychological Contract
SoC (Span of Control)
36. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
Performance efficiency
Satisficing Decision
Virtual Organization
Workforce Diversity
37. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.
nAch
Intuitive Thinking
Management Science
Certain Environment
38. Physical and Mental exhaustion that can be incapacitating personally and in respect to work.
Performance efficiency
Job Burnout
Strategy
Escalating Commitment
39. Responds to events as or after they occur.
Crisis
Reactive Change
Middle Manager
Organizing
40. Aligns the organization with anticipated future challenges.
Intellectual Capital
Crisis
Planned Change
Fred Fiedler
41. Involves working at home or other places using computer links to the office.
Competitive Advantage
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
SoC (Span of Control)
Synergy
42. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Cross functional team
Planning
Job Performance
43. Found in job content - such as a sense of achievement - recognition - or personal growth.
Culture
Satisfier (factor)
nAff
Retrenchment Strategy
44. Uses permanent and temporary cross-functional teams to improve lateral relations
Team Structure
Action Research
Synergy
Satisfier (factor)
45. Choosing the first satisfactory alternative that comes to attention
Satisficing Decision
Fred Fiedler
Ethnocentrism
nPower
46. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Incremental Change
(Growth through) Diversification
Training
Team Structure
47. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones
Culture
Action Research
Functional Strategy
Mentoring
48. An invisible barrier limiting the advancement of woman and minorities
Policy
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Intellectual Capital
Cross functional team
49. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
Exporting
Competitive Advantage
Direction
Skill
50. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.
Direction
Network Structure
Performance
Hygiene (factor)
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