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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. Approaches problems in a flexible and spontaneous fashion.
Intuitive Thinking
Refreezing
nPower
Management Science
2. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action
Controlling
Procedure
Satisfier (factor)
Decision
3. Describes the differences among workers in gender - race - age - ethnic culture - able-bodiness - religious affiliation - and sexual orientation.
Groupthink
Importing
Learning Organization
Workforce Diversity
4. WOT
Business Strategy
Exporting
Productivity
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
5. Uses IT (information technology) to link with networks of outside suppliers and service contractors
Synergy
Core Competency
Network Structure
Productivity
6. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.
Exporting
Middle Manager
Boundaryless Organizations
Technical Skill
7. When a business function is contracted to an outside supplier
Outsourcing
Controlling
Cross functional team
Budget
8. The total mechanization of a job.
Accountability
Job Burnout
Automation
Intuitive Thinking
9. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
Transformational Change
Delegation
Performance efficiency
Certain Environment
10. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Lifelong Learning
Risk Environment
Functional Chimney Problem
11. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.
CoC (Chain of Command)
Decision
Intellectual Capital
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
12. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
Modeling
Automation
Conceptual Skill
Intuitive Thinking
13. Growing within the same business area
Systematic Thinking
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
(Growth through)Concentration
Leading
14. Involves an experienced person offering performance advice to a less-experienced person
Team Structure
Risk Environment
Budget
Coaching
15. Sets standards as to what is good or bad or right or wrong in ones conduct.
Hygiene (factor)
Motivation
Exporting
Ethics
16. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
Conceptual Skill
Intellectual Capital
nAff
(Growth through) Diversification
17. The process of assigning tasks - allocating resources - and arranging activities to implement plans.
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Organizing
Ethics
Job Performance
18. Is by acquiring suppliers and distributors
Intellectual Capital
Productivity
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Top Manager
19. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.
Incremental Change
Direction
Modeling
Performance efficiency
20. Utilizes people - values - and systems to continously change and improve its performance.
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Intuitive Thinking
Learning Organization
Certain Environment
21. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people
nAff
Workforce Diversity
Team Structure
Ethics
22. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem
Virtual Organization
Satisfier (factor)
nAch
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
23. Provides learning opportunities to acquire and improve job related skills
Importing
Job Performance
Refreezing
Training
24. Found in job content - such as a sense of achievement - recognition - or personal growth.
Lifelong Learning
Satisfier (factor)
Innovation
Controlling
25. Expectancy x Instrumentality x Valence
Motivation
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Strategy
Retrenchment Strategy
26. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Procedure
Refreezing
Job Burnout
Business Strategy
27. Lacking so much information that it is difficult to assign probabilities to the outcomes of alternatives.
Decision
Uncertain Environment
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Skill
28. A plan that commits resources to projects or activities
Controlling
Decision
Budget
Core Competency
29. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
Procedure
Job Performance
Globalization
Retrenchment Strategy
30. The ability to translate knowledge into action that results in desired performance
nAff
Synergy
Skill
Motivation
31. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.
Knowledge Worker
Problem Solving
Middle Manager
Mentoring
32. The requirement to show performance results to a supervisor
Learning Organization
Accountability
P Decision (Programmed)
Decision
33. Brings together members from different functional departments
Learning Organization
Cross functional team
Conceptual Skill
Corporate Strategy
34. Responds to events as or after they occur.
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Reactive Change
Competitive Advantage
35. An unexpected problem that can lead to disaster if not resolved quickly and appropriately
Escalating Commitment
Synergy
Crisis
PC
36. Local products are sold abroad
Direction
Exporting
Certain Environment
Procedure
37. The overall quality of human experiences in the workplace.
Motivation
PC
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Law of Effect
38. Links all persons with successively higher levels of authority.
Satisficing Decision
Outsourcing
CoC (Chain of Command)
Hygiene (factor)
39. Offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.
Information System
Certain Environment
Corporate Strategy
Importing
40. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
Risk Environment
Organizing
Incremental Change
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
41. A lack of communication and coordination across functions.
Functional Chimney Problem
Incremental Change
Heuristics
Core Competency
42. A comprehensive plan guiding resource allocation to achieve long-term organizational goals.
Middle Manager
Crisis
Intellectual Capital
Strategy
43. The phase at which change is stabilized.
Type A Personality
Refreezing
Synergy
Performance efficiency
44. A work unit or smaller component within a larger organization
Delegation
Subsystem
Budget
Direction
45. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones
Mentoring
Type A Personality
P Decision (Programmed)
Information System
46. A standing plan that communicates guidelines for decisions and action
Performance effectiveness
Policy
Culture
Planning
47. Ability x Support x Effort
Functional Strategy
Intuitive Thinking
Performance
Accountability
48. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Virtual Organization
Importing
Transformational Change
49. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
Law of Effect
Job Enrichment
Planning
Satisfier (factor)
50. The quantity and quality of work performance - with resource utilization considered.
Mentoring
Performance effectiveness
Skill
Productivity