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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. Aligns the organization with anticipated future challenges.
Planned Change
Ethics
Outsourcing
Synergy
2. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Business Strategy
Strategy
Motivation
Performance effectiveness
3. Physical and Mental exhaustion that can be incapacitating personally and in respect to work.
Learning Organization
Skill
Job Burnout
Policy
4. An unexpected problem that can lead to disaster if not resolved quickly and appropriately
Crisis
Uncertain Environment
(Growth through) Diversification
Systematic Thinking
5. Involves working at home or other places using computer links to the office.
nAff
Refreezing
Delegation
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
6. Choosing the first satisfactory alternative that comes to attention
Ethics
Psychological Contract
Satisficing Decision
Lifelong Learning
7. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.
Boundaryless Organizations
Refreezing
Core Competency
Transformational Change
8. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
Job Performance
nAff
Organizing
SoC (Span of Control)
9. The process of assigning tasks - allocating resources - and arranging activities to implement plans.
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Cross functional team
Leading
Organizing
10. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
CoC (Chain of Command)
(Growth through) Diversification
Strategy
Business Strategy
11. Approaches problems in a flexible and spontaneous fashion.
Corporate Strategy
Intuitive Thinking
Job Burnout
Outsourcing
12. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem
Technical Skill
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Synergy
P Decision (Programmed)
13. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
Innovation
Planning
Team Structure
Policy
14. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
Groupthink
Competitive Advantage
Planned Change
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
15. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
Satisfier (factor)
(Growth through)Concentration
Incremental Change
Knowledge Worker
16. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Performance effectiveness
Motivation
Productivity
17. Offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.
Culture
Network Structure
Skill
Certain Environment
18. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
Job Enrichment
Unfreezing
Policy
Modeling
19. Responds to events as or after they occur.
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Workforce Diversity
Synergy
Reactive Change
20. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
nPower
Information System
Satisfier (factor)
Performance efficiency
21. A plan that commits resources to projects or activities
Budget
Incremental Change
Management Science
Competitive Advantage
22. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
nAch
Information System
CoC (Chain of Command)
Intuitive Thinking
23. Involves reducing the scale of current operations
Retrenchment Strategy
Risk Environment
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Skill
24. A standing plan that communicates guidelines for decisions and action
Policy
Training
Direction
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
25. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.
Organizing
Intellectual Capital
Manager
Incremental Change
26. The display of negative - irrational attitudes toward woman or minorities.
SoC (Span of Control)
Prejudice
Outsourcing
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
27. The creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
Network Structure
Contingency Thinking
Uncertain Environment
Synergy
28. The process of taking a new idea and putting it into practice.
Psychological Contract
Innovation
Training
PC
29. A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities
Conceptual Skill
Exporting
Incremental Change
Groupthink
30. The phase at which change is stabilized.
Refreezing
Functional Chimney Problem
Decision
Management Science
31. Found in job content - such as a sense of achievement - recognition - or personal growth.
Boundaryless Organizations
Conceptual Skill
Globalization
Satisfier (factor)
32. An invisible barrier limiting the advancement of woman and minorities
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Controlling
Law of Effect
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
33. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Procedure
P Decision (Programmed)
Transformational Change
Crisis
34. The continuation of a course of action even though it is not working
Job Enrichment
Escalating Commitment
Transformational Change
Leading
35. WOT
SoC (Span of Control)
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Groupthink
Contingency Thinking
36. A shared set of beliefs - values - and patterns of behavior common to a group of people
Culture
Human Skill
Synergy
Training
37. The process of measuring performance and taking action to ensure desired results
Performance
Strategy
Business Strategy
Controlling
38. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones
Business Strategy
Mentoring
Ethics
Team Structure
39. The number of subordinates directly reporting to a manager
Ethnocentrism
SoC (Span of Control)
Manager
Transformational Change
40. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.
Psychological Contract
Ethics
Manager
Learning Organization
41. Uses permanent and temporary cross-functional teams to improve lateral relations
Refreezing
Team Structure
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
(Growth through)Concentration
42. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.
Satisficing Decision
Need
Top Manager
Unfreezing
43. A shifting network of strategic alliances that are engaged as needed
Virtual Organization
SoC (Span of Control)
Psychological Contract
Globalization
44. The requirement to show performance results to a supervisor
Manager
Accountability
Human Skill
Job Enrichment
45. Approaches problems in a rational and analytical fashion.
P Decision (Programmed)
Reactive Change
Systematic Thinking
Transformational Change
46. Utilizes people - values - and systems to continously change and improve its performance.
Groupthink
Lifelong Learning
Learning Organization
Performance efficiency
47. The ability to think analytically and solve complex problems to the benefit of everyone involved.
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Conceptual Skill
Incremental Change
Action Research
48. The total mechanization of a job.
Decision
Retrenchment Strategy
Automation
Psychological Contract
49. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
Planned Change
Functional Strategy
Network Structure
Job Performance
50. Ability x Support x Effort
Procedure
Performance
Problem Solving
Synergy