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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. Involves reducing the scale of current operations
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Type A Personality
Functional Strategy
Retrenchment Strategy
2. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented
Cross functional team
Fred Fiedler
Boundaryless Organizations
Problem Solving
3. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
Performance efficiency
Human Skill
Knowledge Worker
Functional Strategy
4. The ability to think analytically and solve complex problems to the benefit of everyone involved.
Conceptual Skill
Globalization
Innovation
Ethics
5. Brings together members from different functional departments
Innovation
Job Burnout
Cross functional team
Hygiene (factor)
6. An invisible barrier limiting the advancement of woman and minorities
Reactive Change
Policy
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
PC
7. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Business Strategy
Budget
Functional Strategy
Groupthink
8. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.
P Decision (Programmed)
Middle Manager
Planned Change
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
9. A comprehensive plan guiding resource allocation to achieve long-term organizational goals.
Middle Manager
CoC (Chain of Command)
Strategy
Functional Chimney Problem
10. Aligns the organization with anticipated future challenges.
Functional Strategy
nAff
Risk Environment
Planned Change
11. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment
Exporting
Synergy
Risk Environment
Performance effectiveness
12. The phase during which a situation is prepared for change.
Unfreezing
Delegation
Job Enrichment
Ethnocentrism
13. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.
Ethnocentrism
(Growth through) Diversification
Motivation
Corporate Strategy
14. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
Middle Manager
CoC (Chain of Command)
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
nPower
15. The total mechanization of a job.
Virtual Organization
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Automation
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
16. Local products are sold abroad
Exporting
Virtual Organization
Type A Personality
(Growth through)Concentration
17. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
Planning
Synergy
Leading
Team Structure
18. WOT
Organizing
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Productivity
Psychological Contract
19. A lack of communication and coordination across functions.
Job Burnout
Automation
Functional Chimney Problem
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
20. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
SoC (Span of Control)
Corporate Strategy
nAch
Psychological Contract
21. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
Exporting
Knowledge Worker
Coaching
Fred Fiedler
22. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people
Core Competency
Organizing
nAff
Decision
23. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
PC
Workforce Diversity
Performance efficiency
Policy
24. Use IT to collect - organize - and distribute data for use in decision making
Modeling
Information System
Unfreezing
P Decision (Programmed)
25. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action
BCG Matrix
Problem Solving
CoC (Chain of Command)
Decision
26. The process of arousing enthusiasm and directing efforts towards organizational goals.
Leading
Boundaryless Organizations
Management Science
Incremental Change
27. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
Network Structure
Globalization
Refreezing
Accountability
28. The ability to translate knowledge into action that results in desired performance
Procedure
nPower
Need
Skill
29. A standing plan that communicates guidelines for decisions and action
Network Structure
Hygiene (factor)
Satisfier (factor)
Policy
30. The number of subordinates directly reporting to a manager
SoC (Span of Control)
P Decision (Programmed)
Boundaryless Organizations
Risk Environment
31. The quantity and quality of work performance - with resource utilization considered.
Productivity
BCG Matrix
Exporting
Decision
32. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones
Skill
Mentoring
Ethics
Controlling
33. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Direction
Importing
Corporate Strategy
Human Skill
34. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.
Action Research
Manager
CoC (Chain of Command)
Productivity
35. Approaches problems in a flexible and spontaneous fashion.
Intuitive Thinking
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Human Skill
Job Performance
36. Lacking so much information that it is difficult to assign probabilities to the outcomes of alternatives.
Strategy
Uncertain Environment
Procedure
Systematic Thinking
37. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.
Satisficing Decision
Direction
Planning
Exporting
38. The phase at which change is stabilized.
Workforce Diversity
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Information System
Refreezing
39. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.
Contingency Thinking
Action Research
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Top Manager
40. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
CoC (Chain of Command)
Job Enrichment
Certain Environment
Intuitive Thinking
41. An unfulfilled physiological or psychological desire.
Training
Job Performance
Need
Performance effectiveness
42. The application of operant conditioning to influence human behaviour at work.
Certain Environment
Ethics
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Corporate Strategy
43. The process of assigning tasks - allocating resources - and arranging activities to implement plans.
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Leading
Workforce Diversity
Organizing
44. The display of negative - irrational attitudes toward woman or minorities.
Leading
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Crisis
Prejudice
45. Results in a major and comprehensive redirection of the organization.
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Transformational Change
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Delegation
46. The creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
nPower
Refreezing
Incremental Change
Synergy
47. A plan that commits resources to projects or activities
Job Burnout
Risk Environment
Budget
Performance
48. Approaches problems in a rational and analytical fashion.
Motivation
Systematic Thinking
Network Structure
Boundaryless Organizations
49. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem
Satisficing Decision
P Decision (Programmed)
Strategy
Exporting
50. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.
Certain Environment
Law of Effect
Cross functional team
Boundaryless Organizations