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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. The creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
Cross functional team
Psychological Contract
(Growth through)Concentration
Synergy
2. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
Outsourcing
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Team Structure
PC
3. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
Competitive Advantage
Hygiene (factor)
Human Skill
Virtual Organization
4. The number of subordinates directly reporting to a manager
Ethnocentrism
SoC (Span of Control)
Prejudice
Innovation
5. The ability to translate knowledge into action that results in desired performance
Organizing
Mentoring
Ethics
Skill
6. The ability to think analytically and solve complex problems to the benefit of everyone involved.
Knowledge Worker
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
(Growth through)Concentration
Conceptual Skill
7. Uses IT (information technology) to link with networks of outside suppliers and service contractors
Network Structure
Modeling
Controlling
Boundaryless Organizations
8. Choosing the first satisfactory alternative that comes to attention
Satisficing Decision
Synergy
Competitive Advantage
Ethics
9. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.
Intellectual Capital
Productivity
Delegation
PC
10. The display of negative - irrational attitudes toward woman or minorities.
Job Enrichment
Prejudice
Culture
Training
11. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.
PC
Escalating Commitment
Technical Skill
Action Research
12. WOT
Psychological Contract
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Conceptual Skill
Productivity
13. The application of operant conditioning to influence human behaviour at work.
Lifelong Learning
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Skill
SoC (Span of Control)
14. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
nPower
Accountability
Performance
Cross functional team
15. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.
Top Manager
Innovation
Productivity
Risk Environment
16. The process of taking a new idea and putting it into practice.
Innovation
Refreezing
Transformational Change
Learning Organization
17. Involves an experienced person offering performance advice to a less-experienced person
Heuristics
Exporting
Coaching
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
18. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
Risk Environment
Ethnocentrism
Ethics
Virtual Organization
19. The overall quality of human experiences in the workplace.
Organizing
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Cross functional team
Performance efficiency
20. The continuation of a course of action even though it is not working
nAff
Escalating Commitment
Job Enrichment
Direction
21. Growing within the same business area
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Top Manager
Unfreezing
(Growth through)Concentration
22. Use IT to collect - organize - and distribute data for use in decision making
Information System
Unfreezing
Core Competency
Functional Chimney Problem
23. The process of measuring performance and taking action to ensure desired results
Systematic Thinking
Action Research
Controlling
Job Enrichment
24. Results in a major and comprehensive redirection of the organization.
Action Research
Conceptual Skill
Procedure
Transformational Change
25. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Culture
Functional Strategy
BCG Matrix
26. Offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.
Knowledge Worker
Planning
Certain Environment
Fred Fiedler
27. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.
Corporate Strategy
Network Structure
Information System
Human Skill
28. A special strength that gives an organization a competitive advantage.
Core Competency
CoC (Chain of Command)
Fred Fiedler
Technical Skill
29. An unexpected problem that can lead to disaster if not resolved quickly and appropriately
Lifelong Learning
Conceptual Skill
Crisis
Performance efficiency
30. A person who supports and is responsible for the work of others.
Refreezing
Escalating Commitment
Cross functional team
Manager
31. A lack of communication and coordination across functions.
Organizing
Functional Chimney Problem
Network Structure
nAff
32. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
Organizing
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Fred Fiedler
Job Enrichment
33. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
Unfreezing
Motivation
Psychological Contract
Performance efficiency
34. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Procedure
Satisficing Decision
Globalization
Leading
35. A comprehensive plan guiding resource allocation to achieve long-term organizational goals.
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Information System
nPower
Strategy
36. A shifting network of strategic alliances that are engaged as needed
Technical Skill
Leading
Training
Virtual Organization
37. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.
Escalating Commitment
BCG Matrix
Corporate Strategy
Functional Chimney Problem
38. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem
Retrenchment Strategy
P Decision (Programmed)
Controlling
Certain Environment
39. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Prejudice
Controlling
nAch
40. A shared set of beliefs - values - and patterns of behavior common to a group of people
Coaching
Contingency Thinking
Culture
Escalating Commitment
41. Is by acquiring suppliers and distributors
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Corporate Strategy
Action Research
Intuitive Thinking
42. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.
Intuitive Thinking
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Reactive Change
Psychological Contract
43. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
(Growth through)Concentration
Functional Strategy
Refreezing
Coaching
44. A plan that commits resources to projects or activities
Satisfier (factor)
Budget
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
45. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
Importing
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Modeling
Lifelong Learning
46. Sets standards as to what is good or bad or right or wrong in ones conduct.
Manager
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Systematic Thinking
Ethics
47. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
PC
Management Science
Systematic Thinking
48. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
Workforce Diversity
Job Performance
Intuitive Thinking
Training
49. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones
Human Skill
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Intellectual Capital
Mentoring
50. A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities
Planning
Cross functional team
Exporting
Groupthink