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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. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.
Workforce Diversity
Satisficing Decision
Direction
Refreezing
2. A shifting network of strategic alliances that are engaged as needed
Virtual Organization
Law of Effect
Conceptual Skill
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
3. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented
Job Enrichment
Fred Fiedler
Certain Environment
Risk Environment
4. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment
Team Structure
Competitive Advantage
Performance effectiveness
Learning Organization
5. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Synergy
Incremental Change
Functional Strategy
Problem Solving
6. A comprehensive plan guiding resource allocation to achieve long-term organizational goals.
Retrenchment Strategy
Top Manager
Strategy
Systematic Thinking
7. The total mechanization of a job.
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Contingency Thinking
Automation
Learning Organization
8. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
Fred Fiedler
Boundaryless Organizations
Automation
Lifelong Learning
9. Lacking so much information that it is difficult to assign probabilities to the outcomes of alternatives.
Direction
Business Strategy
Culture
Uncertain Environment
10. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Satisficing Decision
Job Burnout
Procedure
Refreezing
11. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
Risk Environment
Functional Chimney Problem
Competitive Advantage
Transformational Change
12. Local products are sold abroad
Exporting
Law of Effect
Performance efficiency
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
13. Physical and Mental exhaustion that can be incapacitating personally and in respect to work.
Job Burnout
Unfreezing
Budget
Workforce Diversity
14. Choosing the first satisfactory alternative that comes to attention
Job Performance
Performance effectiveness
Functional Strategy
Satisficing Decision
15. Links all persons with successively higher levels of authority.
Outsourcing
Performance
CoC (Chain of Command)
Prejudice
16. Ability x Support x Effort
Planning
Performance
Globalization
Refreezing
17. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
Productivity
nAch
Prejudice
Performance efficiency
18. Uses permanent and temporary cross-functional teams to improve lateral relations
Team Structure
Motivation
Systematic Thinking
Functional Chimney Problem
19. Growing within the same business area
Systematic Thinking
(Growth through)Concentration
Action Research
Procedure
20. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action
P Decision (Programmed)
Decision
(Growth through)Concentration
(Growth through) Diversification
21. The process of measuring performance and taking action to ensure desired results
Controlling
Unfreezing
Importing
Outsourcing
22. A plan that commits resources to projects or activities
Leading
Budget
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Core Competency
23. The continuation of a course of action even though it is not working
Escalating Commitment
Systematic Thinking
Culture
Intuitive Thinking
24. When a business function is contracted to an outside supplier
Escalating Commitment
Technical Skill
Business Strategy
Outsourcing
25. Offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.
Human Skill
Globalization
Network Structure
Certain Environment
26. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Knowledge Worker
CoC (Chain of Command)
Intellectual Capital
27. Approaches problems in a rational and analytical fashion.
Business Strategy
(Growth through)Concentration
Leading
Systematic Thinking
28. Sets standards as to what is good or bad or right or wrong in ones conduct.
Risk Environment
Ethics
Retrenchment Strategy
nAff
29. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.
Technical Skill
Middle Manager
Workforce Diversity
Job Enrichment
30. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.
Middle Manager
Innovation
Culture
Information System
31. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.
Delegation
Globalization
Intellectual Capital
Groupthink
32. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
Type A Personality
Team Structure
Functional Strategy
Coaching
33. A lack of communication and coordination across functions.
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Functional Chimney Problem
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
BCG Matrix
34. The process of arousing enthusiasm and directing efforts towards organizational goals.
Competitive Advantage
Performance effectiveness
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Leading
35. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
Human Skill
Reactive Change
Functional Chimney Problem
Modeling
36. Involves an experienced person offering performance advice to a less-experienced person
Coaching
(Growth through) Diversification
Human Skill
Modeling
37. Results in a major and comprehensive redirection of the organization.
Systematic Thinking
Satisfier (factor)
Transformational Change
Risk Environment
38. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.
Boundaryless Organizations
Knowledge Worker
Human Skill
Performance
39. The process of taking a new idea and putting it into practice.
Innovation
Problem Solving
Job Enrichment
Budget
40. An unfulfilled physiological or psychological desire.
Satisfier (factor)
Direction
Knowledge Worker
Need
41. A standing plan that communicates guidelines for decisions and action
Strategy
Transformational Change
Policy
Leading
42. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
Performance efficiency
Job Enrichment
Modeling
Reactive Change
43. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
Crisis
Unfreezing
Cross functional team
PC
44. The tendancy to consider one's culture as superior to others
Intuitive Thinking
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Ethnocentrism
Law of Effect
45. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
Law of Effect
Knowledge Worker
Conceptual Skill
Type A Personality
46. Describes the differences among workers in gender - race - age - ethnic culture - able-bodiness - religious affiliation - and sexual orientation.
Workforce Diversity
Delegation
Risk Environment
Satisficing Decision
47. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.
Psychological Contract
Satisfier (factor)
Uncertain Environment
Network Structure
48. The phase at which change is stabilized.
Refreezing
Virtual Organization
Direction
Satisfier (factor)
49. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.
Globalization
Top Manager
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Culture
50. A work unit or smaller component within a larger organization
Exporting
Subsystem
Manager
Fred Fiedler