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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. Expectancy x Instrumentality x Valence
Fred Fiedler
CoC (Chain of Command)
Technical Skill
Motivation
2. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people
nAff
Automation
Exporting
Lifelong Learning
3. A shifting network of strategic alliances that are engaged as needed
Information System
Virtual Organization
Decision
Mentoring
4. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.
Corporate Strategy
Mentoring
Job Performance
Automation
5. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.
Job Performance
nPower
Risk Environment
Delegation
6. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented
Modeling
Organizing
Learning Organization
Fred Fiedler
7. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem
Uncertain Environment
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Certain Environment
Budget
8. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Management Science
Exporting
Performance efficiency
9. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
Groupthink
Functional Strategy
Prejudice
Culture
10. Results in a major and comprehensive redirection of the organization.
Automation
Transformational Change
Controlling
Training
11. A work unit or smaller component within a larger organization
Subsystem
Skill
nAch
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
12. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share
Modeling
Hygiene (factor)
Controlling
BCG Matrix
13. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
Job Enrichment
Ethics
Planned Change
Risk Environment
14. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.
Middle Manager
Virtual Organization
Productivity
Organizing
15. A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities
Performance
Groupthink
Crisis
Manager
16. Growing within the same business area
(Growth through)Concentration
Hygiene (factor)
Modeling
Uncertain Environment
17. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
Automation
Competitive Advantage
Policy
Hygiene (factor)
18. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.
Hygiene (factor)
Unfreezing
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Globalization
19. A plan that commits resources to projects or activities
Problem Solving
Contingency Thinking
Budget
Performance
20. Brings together members from different functional departments
Top Manager
Cross functional team
Satisficing Decision
(Growth through) Diversification
21. Links all persons with successively higher levels of authority.
CoC (Chain of Command)
Information System
Skill
Culture
22. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Knowledge Worker
Escalating Commitment
Importing
23. Use IT to collect - organize - and distribute data for use in decision making
Job Enrichment
Information System
Skill
Prejudice
24. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
Refreezing
Type A Personality
Incremental Change
Accountability
25. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Top Manager
Outsourcing
Incremental Change
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
26. An unexpected problem that can lead to disaster if not resolved quickly and appropriately
Fred Fiedler
Strategy
Crisis
Technical Skill
27. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
Escalating Commitment
Controlling
Business Strategy
Risk Environment
28. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment
Law of Effect
Manager
Performance effectiveness
Training
29. WOT
Performance
Fred Fiedler
BCG Matrix
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
30. Involves reducing the scale of current operations
Core Competency
Retrenchment Strategy
Need
Certain Environment
31. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action
Team Structure
Importing
nAff
Decision
32. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.
Psychological Contract
Risk Environment
Middle Manager
Network Structure
33. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
Globalization
Functional Chimney Problem
Middle Manager
Retrenchment Strategy
34. The number of subordinates directly reporting to a manager
nAch
Law of Effect
Cross functional team
SoC (Span of Control)
35. Describes the differences among workers in gender - race - age - ethnic culture - able-bodiness - religious affiliation - and sexual orientation.
(Growth through) Diversification
Hygiene (factor)
Skill
Workforce Diversity
36. Physical and Mental exhaustion that can be incapacitating personally and in respect to work.
Decision
Job Burnout
Prejudice
Budget
37. An invisible barrier limiting the advancement of woman and minorities
Culture
Globalization
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
38. The total mechanization of a job.
Mentoring
Automation
Satisficing Decision
Learning Organization
39. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.
Job Performance
Direction
Incremental Change
Job Burnout
40. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
Performance efficiency
PC
Management Science
Ethnocentrism
41. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
Incremental Change
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Ethics
Performance efficiency
42. Involves identifying and taking action to resolve problems
Problem Solving
Refreezing
SoC (Span of Control)
Systematic Thinking
43. Making managerial decisions based on the situation; Management is not a science.
Policy
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Contingency Thinking
Procedure
44. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem
Planning
P Decision (Programmed)
Retrenchment Strategy
Job Enrichment
45. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
BCG Matrix
Cross functional team
(Growth through) Diversification
Training
46. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.
Technical Skill
Fred Fiedler
Performance efficiency
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
47. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
Workforce Diversity
Knowledge Worker
Team Structure
Delegation
48. The ability to think analytically and solve complex problems to the benefit of everyone involved.
Workforce Diversity
Conceptual Skill
Job Enrichment
Decision
49. Offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.
Problem Solving
nPower
Certain Environment
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
50. The ability to translate knowledge into action that results in desired performance
Direction
Skill
Functional Chimney Problem
(Growth through)Concentration