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1. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
Contingency Thinking
nPower
nAch
Mentoring
2. An unfulfilled physiological or psychological desire.
Team Structure
Knowledge Worker
Culture
Need
3. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.
Risk Environment
Technical Skill
Intellectual Capital
Delegation
4. The continuation of a course of action even though it is not working
Strategy
Escalating Commitment
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Performance efficiency
5. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
Functional Strategy
Competitive Advantage
Outsourcing
Risk Environment
6. A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities
(Growth through)Concentration
Groupthink
SoC (Span of Control)
Policy
7. The phase during which a situation is prepared for change.
Globalization
Technical Skill
P Decision (Programmed)
Unfreezing
8. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share
Team Structure
Policy
Performance
BCG Matrix
9. The quantity and quality of work performance - with resource utilization considered.
Synergy
Functional Strategy
Productivity
Modeling
10. Growing within the same business area
Transformational Change
Cross functional team
Performance efficiency
(Growth through)Concentration
11. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones
Management Science
Satisficing Decision
Planning
Mentoring
12. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action
Decision
Transformational Change
Lifelong Learning
Job Enrichment
13. A plan that commits resources to projects or activities
Satisfier (factor)
Budget
Direction
Systematic Thinking
14. A work unit or smaller component within a larger organization
Importing
Ethics
Subsystem
Delegation
15. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented
Fred Fiedler
nPower
Human Skill
Strategy
16. The application of operant conditioning to influence human behaviour at work.
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Management Science
Decision
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
17. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.
Mentoring
Knowledge Worker
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Action Research
18. The process of taking a new idea and putting it into practice.
Culture
Psychological Contract
nAff
Innovation
19. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.
Boundaryless Organizations
Psychological Contract
Job Enrichment
Team Structure
20. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.
Synergy
Subsystem
Middle Manager
Certain Environment
21. WOT
Innovation
Productivity
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Problem Solving
22. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
Type A Personality
Problem Solving
Transformational Change
Job Burnout
23. Involves an experienced person offering performance advice to a less-experienced person
Escalating Commitment
Coaching
Automation
Procedure
24. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.
Type A Personality
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Technical Skill
BCG Matrix
25. Approaches problems in a flexible and spontaneous fashion.
Leading
Virtual Organization
Performance effectiveness
Intuitive Thinking
26. Lacking so much information that it is difficult to assign probabilities to the outcomes of alternatives.
Planning
Mentoring
Uncertain Environment
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
27. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
Automation
nPower
Controlling
Innovation
28. Utilizes people - values - and systems to continously change and improve its performance.
Satisfier (factor)
Intellectual Capital
P Decision (Programmed)
Learning Organization
29. Is by acquiring suppliers and distributors
Contingency Thinking
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Law of Effect
Performance efficiency
30. A special strength that gives an organization a competitive advantage.
Core Competency
Exporting
Heuristics
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
31. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem
Law of Effect
P Decision (Programmed)
Innovation
nPower
32. Ability x Support x Effort
Certain Environment
Accountability
Top Manager
Performance
33. Results in a major and comprehensive redirection of the organization.
Strategy
Retrenchment Strategy
Transformational Change
Psychological Contract
34. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
Subsystem
Problem Solving
Law of Effect
Lifelong Learning
35. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.
Management Science
Performance efficiency
Subsystem
Team Structure
36. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
nAff
Ethnocentrism
Accountability
37. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Action Research
Incremental Change
(Growth through)Concentration
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
38. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem
Workforce Diversity
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Law of Effect
Motivation
39. Involves working at home or other places using computer links to the office.
Heuristics
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Risk Environment
Hygiene (factor)
40. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
Job Performance
Crisis
Organizing
Prejudice
41. Expectancy x Instrumentality x Valence
P Decision (Programmed)
Conceptual Skill
Law of Effect
Motivation
42. Choosing the first satisfactory alternative that comes to attention
Corporate Strategy
Satisficing Decision
Innovation
Exporting
43. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Planned Change
(Growth through) Diversification
Retrenchment Strategy
44. The creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
Intuitive Thinking
Synergy
Modeling
nAch
45. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.
PC
Top Manager
Leading
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
46. Making managerial decisions based on the situation; Management is not a science.
PC
Organizing
Outsourcing
Contingency Thinking
47. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
Information System
Decision
Law of Effect
Performance efficiency
48. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
Functional Strategy
Job Enrichment
Corporate Strategy
CoC (Chain of Command)
49. Local products are sold abroad
CoC (Chain of Command)
Performance effectiveness
Exporting
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
50. Responds to events as or after they occur.
Transformational Change
Type A Personality
Reactive Change
PC
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