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Business Leadership
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business-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Approaches problems in a flexible and spontaneous fashion.
Intuitive Thinking
Satisfier (factor)
Law of Effect
Human Skill
2. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.
Mentoring
Psychological Contract
Intellectual Capital
Learning Organization
3. The process of taking a new idea and putting it into practice.
Procedure
Innovation
Type A Personality
(Growth through)Concentration
4. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.
Boundaryless Organizations
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Workforce Diversity
Performance effectiveness
5. Uses permanent and temporary cross-functional teams to improve lateral relations
Team Structure
Middle Manager
Intellectual Capital
SoC (Span of Control)
6. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
Planning
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Incremental Change
Knowledge Worker
7. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action
Decision
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Job Burnout
PC
8. The process of assigning tasks - allocating resources - and arranging activities to implement plans.
Information System
Retrenchment Strategy
Organizing
Escalating Commitment
9. A special strength that gives an organization a competitive advantage.
Prejudice
Exporting
Outsourcing
Core Competency
10. Approaches problems in a rational and analytical fashion.
Systematic Thinking
Manager
Synergy
Policy
11. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.
Hygiene (factor)
Certain Environment
(Growth through)Concentration
Job Enrichment
12. Involves working at home or other places using computer links to the office.
nAff
Planning
Management Science
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
13. An invisible barrier limiting the advancement of woman and minorities
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Direction
Importing
Unfreezing
14. Making managerial decisions based on the situation; Management is not a science.
Incremental Change
Contingency Thinking
Crisis
(Growth through) Diversification
15. When a business function is contracted to an outside supplier
Knowledge Worker
Coaching
Outsourcing
Law of Effect
16. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.
Corporate Strategy
Satisfier (factor)
Job Enrichment
Procedure
17. A shifting network of strategic alliances that are engaged as needed
Management Science
Accountability
Strategy
Virtual Organization
18. The requirement to show performance results to a supervisor
Fred Fiedler
Psychological Contract
Functional Chimney Problem
Accountability
19. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Budget
Systematic Thinking
Performance effectiveness
Procedure
20. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.
Modeling
Job Burnout
nAch
Top Manager
21. Involves identifying and taking action to resolve problems
Incremental Change
Problem Solving
Heuristics
Workforce Diversity
22. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
Team Structure
Groupthink
Knowledge Worker
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
23. WOT
Core Competency
Lifelong Learning
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Coaching
24. Provides learning opportunities to acquire and improve job related skills
Heuristics
Training
Cross functional team
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
25. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
Intuitive Thinking
Training
Heuristics
Competitive Advantage
26. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
Need
(Growth through) Diversification
Incremental Change
Technical Skill
27. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones
Mentoring
Skill
Action Research
Performance
28. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.
Functional Chimney Problem
Accountability
Escalating Commitment
Human Skill
29. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
Contingency Thinking
Information System
Functional Strategy
Need
30. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented
Type A Personality
Technical Skill
Law of Effect
Fred Fiedler
31. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.
BCG Matrix
Direction
Satisfier (factor)
Modeling
32. Strategies for simplifying decision-making
Budget
Innovation
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Heuristics
33. The total mechanization of a job.
Globalization
Strategy
Automation
Virtual Organization
34. Found in job content - such as a sense of achievement - recognition - or personal growth.
Satisfier (factor)
Job Enrichment
Cross functional team
(Growth through) Diversification
35. The creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
Lifelong Learning
Uncertain Environment
Type A Personality
Synergy
36. Local products are sold abroad
Competitive Advantage
Exporting
nAff
Hygiene (factor)
37. Results in a major and comprehensive redirection of the organization.
Transformational Change
Information System
Business Strategy
Functional Chimney Problem
38. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Outsourcing
Risk Environment
Accountability
39. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.
Satisfier (factor)
Job Enrichment
Productivity
Technical Skill
40. The application of operant conditioning to influence human behaviour at work.
Planned Change
Organizing
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Heuristics
41. The ability to translate knowledge into action that results in desired performance
Automation
nPower
Core Competency
Skill
42. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
Delegation
Type A Personality
Learning Organization
Budget
43. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
CoC (Chain of Command)
PC
BCG Matrix
Type A Personality
44. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
Team Structure
Action Research
Corporate Strategy
nPower
45. Sets standards as to what is good or bad or right or wrong in ones conduct.
Satisfier (factor)
Cross functional team
Ethics
Groupthink
46. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem
P Decision (Programmed)
Outsourcing
Budget
Fred Fiedler
47. Behaviour followed by pleasant consequences is like to be repeated; behaviour followed by unpleasant work conditions is not.
Budget
Intuitive Thinking
Law of Effect
Middle Manager
48. Choosing the first satisfactory alternative that comes to attention
Virtual Organization
Human Skill
Psychological Contract
Satisficing Decision
49. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Lifelong Learning
Business Strategy
nAch
Need
50. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
Competitive Advantage
Middle Manager
nAch
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)