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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. The requirement to show performance results to a supervisor
Accountability
Satisficing Decision
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Satisfier (factor)
2. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
Importing
Hygiene (factor)
Law of Effect
Knowledge Worker
3. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Lifelong Learning
Competitive Advantage
Human Skill
4. Is by acquiring suppliers and distributors
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Ethics
Performance effectiveness
Contingency Thinking
5. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones
Retrenchment Strategy
Procedure
Mentoring
Outsourcing
6. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.
Procedure
Delegation
Subsystem
Outsourcing
7. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
SoC (Span of Control)
Human Skill
Strategy
Modeling
8. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
Heuristics
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Innovation
Functional Strategy
9. A person who supports and is responsible for the work of others.
Synergy
Performance effectiveness
Automation
Manager
10. Lacking so much information that it is difficult to assign probabilities to the outcomes of alternatives.
Job Enrichment
Problem Solving
Uncertain Environment
Virtual Organization
11. Responds to events as or after they occur.
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Reactive Change
Delegation
Escalating Commitment
12. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.
Action Research
P Decision (Programmed)
Middle Manager
Boundaryless Organizations
13. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
Type A Personality
nAff
Incremental Change
CoC (Chain of Command)
14. Found in job content - such as a sense of achievement - recognition - or personal growth.
Procedure
Direction
Satisfier (factor)
Importing
15. The ability to think analytically and solve complex problems to the benefit of everyone involved.
Refreezing
Conceptual Skill
Outsourcing
Heuristics
16. Uses permanent and temporary cross-functional teams to improve lateral relations
Manager
Team Structure
Functional Chimney Problem
Direction
17. Involves working at home or other places using computer links to the office.
Budget
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Motivation
Uncertain Environment
18. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.
Direction
Corporate Strategy
Budget
Productivity
19. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Outsourcing
Uncertain Environment
nAff
20. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Refreezing
Productivity
Procedure
Information System
21. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
(Growth through) Diversification
Core Competency
Competitive Advantage
Performance
22. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.
Strategy
Training
Satisficing Decision
Technical Skill
23. Use IT to collect - organize - and distribute data for use in decision making
Culture
Top Manager
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Information System
24. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
Performance efficiency
Strategy
Direction
Intuitive Thinking
25. Aligns the organization with anticipated future challenges.
Need
Cross functional team
Planned Change
Modeling
26. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.
Action Research
Workforce Diversity
Certain Environment
CoC (Chain of Command)
27. A standing plan that communicates guidelines for decisions and action
Policy
Learning Organization
Subsystem
Corporate Strategy
28. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share
BCG Matrix
Competitive Advantage
Procedure
Certain Environment
29. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
Cross functional team
Globalization
Ethnocentrism
Ethics
30. Describes the differences among workers in gender - race - age - ethnic culture - able-bodiness - religious affiliation - and sexual orientation.
Systematic Thinking
Workforce Diversity
Synergy
Cross functional team
31. The number of subordinates directly reporting to a manager
Groupthink
Uncertain Environment
Planned Change
SoC (Span of Control)
32. A shifting network of strategic alliances that are engaged as needed
Synergy
Retrenchment Strategy
Core Competency
Virtual Organization
33. The process of taking a new idea and putting it into practice.
Innovation
Synergy
CoC (Chain of Command)
nPower
34. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem
Systematic Thinking
nPower
Coaching
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
35. An invisible barrier limiting the advancement of woman and minorities
Team Structure
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Productivity
Transformational Change
36. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Policy
SoC (Span of Control)
Boundaryless Organizations
37. The phase at which change is stabilized.
Coaching
Mentoring
Modeling
Refreezing
38. The process of assigning tasks - allocating resources - and arranging activities to implement plans.
Organizing
Manager
Hygiene (factor)
Contingency Thinking
39. The process of measuring performance and taking action to ensure desired results
Controlling
Network Structure
Mentoring
Retrenchment Strategy
40. Making managerial decisions based on the situation; Management is not a science.
Contingency Thinking
PC
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Core Competency
41. Involves identifying and taking action to resolve problems
Heuristics
Problem Solving
Information System
Innovation
42. Provides learning opportunities to acquire and improve job related skills
Network Structure
Training
Culture
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
43. Offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.
Psychological Contract
Corporate Strategy
Certain Environment
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
44. The overall quality of human experiences in the workplace.
Organizing
Direction
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Knowledge Worker
45. A special strength that gives an organization a competitive advantage.
Fred Fiedler
Escalating Commitment
Ethnocentrism
Core Competency
46. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Outsourcing
Ethics
Importing
Unfreezing
47. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action
Outsourcing
Network Structure
Functional Strategy
Decision
48. Brings together members from different functional departments
Functional Chimney Problem
Crisis
Cross functional team
Accountability
49. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
(Growth through) Diversification
Budget
Strategy
Planning
50. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Motivation
Uncertain Environment
Leading
Incremental Change