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Business Leadership

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.






2. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale






3. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance






4. The phase at which change is stabilized.






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






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






7. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.






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






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






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






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






12. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.






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






14. An unfulfilled physiological or psychological desire.






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






16. Involves reducing the scale of current operations






17. A shifting network of strategic alliances that are engaged as needed






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






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






20. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.






21. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented






22. Links all persons with successively higher levels of authority.






23. Physical and Mental exhaustion that can be incapacitating personally and in respect to work.






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






25. Behaviour followed by pleasant consequences is like to be repeated; behaviour followed by unpleasant work conditions is not.






26. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.






27. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.






28. Uses IT (information technology) to link with networks of outside suppliers and service contractors






29. A lack of communication and coordination across functions.






30. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment






31. When a business function is contracted to an outside supplier






32. The phase during which a situation is prepared for change.






33. A special strength that gives an organization a competitive advantage.






34. Found in job content - such as a sense of achievement - recognition - or personal growth.






35. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.






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






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






38. Growing within the same business area






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






40. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.






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






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






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






44. The requirement to show performance results to a supervisor






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






46. Involves identifying and taking action to resolve problems






47. Brings together members from different functional departments






48. Expectancy x Instrumentality x Valence






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






50. An invisible barrier limiting the advancement of woman and minorities