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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The ability to think analytically and solve complex problems to the benefit of everyone involved.
Coaching
Conceptual Skill
Technical Skill
Importing
2. Approaches problems in a rational and analytical fashion.
Systematic Thinking
BCG Matrix
Culture
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
3. Found in job content - such as a sense of achievement - recognition - or personal growth.
Manager
Productivity
Retrenchment Strategy
Satisfier (factor)
4. WOT
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Information System
Job Performance
Direction
5. The display of negative - irrational attitudes toward woman or minorities.
Ethics
Team Structure
Prejudice
Leading
6. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Fred Fiedler
nAff
Procedure
Synergy
7. The number of subordinates directly reporting to a manager
SoC (Span of Control)
Functional Chimney Problem
(Growth through)Concentration
Systematic Thinking
8. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented
Fred Fiedler
Controlling
Virtual Organization
Hygiene (factor)
9. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share
nAch
Satisfier (factor)
BCG Matrix
Exporting
10. Use IT to collect - organize - and distribute data for use in decision making
nAch
Boundaryless Organizations
Information System
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
11. Local products are sold abroad
Exporting
Planning
Unfreezing
Functional Strategy
12. Making managerial decisions based on the situation; Management is not a science.
Systematic Thinking
(Growth through)Concentration
Functional Chimney Problem
Contingency Thinking
13. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
P Decision (Programmed)
Functional Chimney Problem
14. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.
Boundaryless Organizations
Motivation
Core Competency
Prejudice
15. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Corporate Strategy
Job Performance
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
16. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Type A Personality
Performance efficiency
Satisficing Decision
Incremental Change
17. A lack of communication and coordination across functions.
Functional Chimney Problem
Leading
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Functional Strategy
18. Behaviour followed by pleasant consequences is like to be repeated; behaviour followed by unpleasant work conditions is not.
Law of Effect
(Growth through) Diversification
Knowledge Worker
SoC (Span of Control)
19. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
Direction
Workforce Diversity
PC
Performance
20. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
Globalization
Heuristics
Contingency Thinking
Leading
21. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action
Delegation
Decision
Budget
Information System
22. Is by acquiring suppliers and distributors
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Escalating Commitment
Delegation
Policy
23. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Incremental Change
Culture
Type A Personality
24. Strategies for simplifying decision-making
Skill
Heuristics
Hygiene (factor)
Outsourcing
25. A shifting network of strategic alliances that are engaged as needed
Virtual Organization
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Transformational Change
Risk Environment
26. The quantity and quality of work performance - with resource utilization considered.
Middle Manager
Escalating Commitment
Productivity
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
27. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.
Competitive Advantage
Delegation
Ethics
Incremental Change
28. Involves identifying and taking action to resolve problems
Problem Solving
Management Science
Job Burnout
Strategy
29. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.
Top Manager
Groupthink
Reactive Change
Motivation
30. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
Heuristics
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Planning
Lifelong Learning
31. The application of operant conditioning to influence human behaviour at work.
Prejudice
BCG Matrix
Productivity
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
32. Brings together members from different functional departments
Strategy
Lifelong Learning
Cross functional team
Psychological Contract
33. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
Retrenchment Strategy
BCG Matrix
nPower
Skill
34. When a business function is contracted to an outside supplier
Productivity
Manager
Outsourcing
Human Skill
35. Provides learning opportunities to acquire and improve job related skills
Training
Type A Personality
Synergy
Ethics
36. Responds to events as or after they occur.
Middle Manager
Leading
Performance effectiveness
Reactive Change
37. Involves an experienced person offering performance advice to a less-experienced person
Coaching
Training
BCG Matrix
Cross functional team
38. Growing within the same business area
Skill
(Growth through)Concentration
Groupthink
Escalating Commitment
39. Links all persons with successively higher levels of authority.
Synergy
Organizing
Leading
CoC (Chain of Command)
40. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones
Mentoring
Planning
Functional Strategy
Training
41. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
Information System
Satisficing Decision
Coaching
Knowledge Worker
42. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
BCG Matrix
Corporate Strategy
Functional Strategy
nAff
43. Approaches problems in a flexible and spontaneous fashion.
Ethics
Budget
Intuitive Thinking
Importing
44. The creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
Policy
Synergy
Type A Personality
Management Science
45. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
Skill
Risk Environment
nAch
Productivity
46. A special strength that gives an organization a competitive advantage.
Cross functional team
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Core Competency
Problem Solving
47. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.
Type A Personality
Crisis
Strategy
Action Research
48. An invisible barrier limiting the advancement of woman and minorities
(Growth through) Diversification
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Innovation
Human Skill
49. An unfulfilled physiological or psychological desire.
Transformational Change
Heuristics
Need
Law of Effect
50. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
Uncertain Environment
nAff
Automation
Competitive Advantage