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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. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Skill
Delegation
BCG Matrix
2. A lack of communication and coordination across functions.
(Growth through)Concentration
Human Skill
Uncertain Environment
Functional Chimney Problem
3. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.
Boundaryless Organizations
Contingency Thinking
Delegation
Budget
4. Is by acquiring suppliers and distributors
Workforce Diversity
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Cross functional team
Network Structure
5. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
Intellectual Capital
Mentoring
Modeling
Globalization
6. The continuation of a course of action even though it is not working
Automation
Escalating Commitment
Exporting
Controlling
7. Provides learning opportunities to acquire and improve job related skills
Productivity
Training
Contingency Thinking
Heuristics
8. WOT
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Automation
Subsystem
Decision
9. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action
Satisficing Decision
Incremental Change
Decision
P Decision (Programmed)
10. Growing within the same business area
(Growth through)Concentration
Functional Chimney Problem
Unfreezing
PC
11. A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities
Modeling
Lifelong Learning
Core Competency
Groupthink
12. Choosing the first satisfactory alternative that comes to attention
Escalating Commitment
Manager
Action Research
Satisficing Decision
13. The tendancy to consider one's culture as superior to others
Systematic Thinking
Ethnocentrism
nPower
Retrenchment Strategy
14. Use IT to collect - organize - and distribute data for use in decision making
Job Enrichment
Information System
Psychological Contract
Training
15. Found in job content - such as a sense of achievement - recognition - or personal growth.
Incremental Change
Satisfier (factor)
Leading
(Growth through) Diversification
16. The phase during which a situation is prepared for change.
Unfreezing
Planned Change
Importing
Budget
17. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.
Leading
Synergy
Virtual Organization
Corporate Strategy
18. The display of negative - irrational attitudes toward woman or minorities.
Fred Fiedler
Prejudice
Decision
Budget
19. The ability to translate knowledge into action that results in desired performance
Fred Fiedler
nAch
Skill
Hygiene (factor)
20. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.
Budget
Problem Solving
Middle Manager
Subsystem
21. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
Action Research
Risk Environment
Ethics
Network Structure
22. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment
Performance effectiveness
Controlling
Manager
Virtual Organization
23. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.
SoC (Span of Control)
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Action Research
(Growth through)Concentration
24. The process of measuring performance and taking action to ensure desired results
Controlling
Job Enrichment
Accountability
Training
25. Involves working at home or other places using computer links to the office.
Team Structure
Innovation
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Leading
26. Offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.
Manager
Learning Organization
Certain Environment
Motivation
27. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
Learning Organization
Law of Effect
Hygiene (factor)
nPower
28. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
Planning
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Retrenchment Strategy
Virtual Organization
29. Behaviour followed by pleasant consequences is like to be repeated; behaviour followed by unpleasant work conditions is not.
Law of Effect
Systematic Thinking
Delegation
Management Science
30. An invisible barrier limiting the advancement of woman and minorities
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Modeling
Systematic Thinking
nPower
31. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented
Virtual Organization
Job Enrichment
Fred Fiedler
Subsystem
32. The application of operant conditioning to influence human behaviour at work.
Delegation
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Conceptual Skill
Hygiene (factor)
33. The creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
Satisfier (factor)
Uncertain Environment
nPower
Synergy
34. The ability to think analytically and solve complex problems to the benefit of everyone involved.
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Performance efficiency
Conceptual Skill
Incremental Change
35. A shared set of beliefs - values - and patterns of behavior common to a group of people
BCG Matrix
Culture
Job Performance
Functional Strategy
36. A special strength that gives an organization a competitive advantage.
Core Competency
Learning Organization
Competitive Advantage
Psychological Contract
37. A plan that commits resources to projects or activities
Decision
Escalating Commitment
Budget
Ethnocentrism
38. The process of taking a new idea and putting it into practice.
Risk Environment
Hygiene (factor)
Action Research
Innovation
39. Physical and Mental exhaustion that can be incapacitating personally and in respect to work.
(Growth through)Concentration
Job Burnout
Certain Environment
Retrenchment Strategy
40. The process of arousing enthusiasm and directing efforts towards organizational goals.
Decision
Technical Skill
Reactive Change
Leading
41. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem
Outsourcing
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Fred Fiedler
42. Links all persons with successively higher levels of authority.
Performance
Direction
CoC (Chain of Command)
Refreezing
43. Strategies for simplifying decision-making
Accountability
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Performance efficiency
Heuristics
44. Results in a major and comprehensive redirection of the organization.
Transformational Change
Productivity
Human Skill
Lifelong Learning
45. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
Job Performance
SoC (Span of Control)
Knowledge Worker
Team Structure
46. The total mechanization of a job.
PC
Delegation
Innovation
Automation
47. Aligns the organization with anticipated future challenges.
Psychological Contract
BCG Matrix
Planned Change
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
48. Approaches problems in a rational and analytical fashion.
Systematic Thinking
Intellectual Capital
Contingency Thinking
nPower
49. A work unit or smaller component within a larger organization
Training
Core Competency
Subsystem
Exporting
50. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
Functional Strategy
Innovation
SoC (Span of Control)
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