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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. The continuation of a course of action even though it is not working
Escalating Commitment
BCG Matrix
Budget
Knowledge Worker
2. Brings together members from different functional departments
Type A Personality
Planning
Cross functional team
Procedure
3. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
Contingency Thinking
Functional Strategy
Team Structure
Coaching
4. Lacking so much information that it is difficult to assign probabilities to the outcomes of alternatives.
Satisfier (factor)
Globalization
Retrenchment Strategy
Uncertain Environment
5. Strategies for simplifying decision-making
Groupthink
Globalization
Heuristics
Modeling
6. Involves an experienced person offering performance advice to a less-experienced person
Intellectual Capital
Budget
Functional Chimney Problem
Coaching
7. When a business function is contracted to an outside supplier
Culture
Certain Environment
Management Science
Outsourcing
8. A person who supports and is responsible for the work of others.
Manager
Technical Skill
Refreezing
BCG Matrix
9. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.
Core Competency
Corporate Strategy
Controlling
Ethnocentrism
10. The process of assigning tasks - allocating resources - and arranging activities to implement plans.
BCG Matrix
Automation
Human Skill
Organizing
11. Results in a major and comprehensive redirection of the organization.
Boundaryless Organizations
Escalating Commitment
Transformational Change
Subsystem
12. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Job Performance
Modeling
Competitive Advantage
13. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Automation
PC
Controlling
Business Strategy
14. The phase at which change is stabilized.
Controlling
Conceptual Skill
Refreezing
Certain Environment
15. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.
Delegation
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Competitive Advantage
Decision
16. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.
Action Research
Fred Fiedler
Escalating Commitment
Corporate Strategy
17. The process of arousing enthusiasm and directing efforts towards organizational goals.
Leading
Globalization
Planning
Knowledge Worker
18. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.
Management Science
Automation
Strategy
Accountability
19. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
Job Performance
Planned Change
PC
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
20. Uses permanent and temporary cross-functional teams to improve lateral relations
Team Structure
Performance
Certain Environment
Human Skill
21. Found in job content - such as a sense of achievement - recognition - or personal growth.
Groupthink
Heuristics
Automation
Satisfier (factor)
22. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
Job Performance
Outsourcing
Planned Change
Law of Effect
23. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones
Psychological Contract
Controlling
Delegation
Mentoring
24. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.
Functional Strategy
Technical Skill
Top Manager
Coaching
25. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
Risk Environment
Decision
Escalating Commitment
Crisis
26. Uses IT (information technology) to link with networks of outside suppliers and service contractors
Incremental Change
Certain Environment
Network Structure
Leading
27. The overall quality of human experiences in the workplace.
nAff
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Satisficing Decision
PC
28. Physical and Mental exhaustion that can be incapacitating personally and in respect to work.
Satisficing Decision
Controlling
Job Burnout
Importing
29. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people
P Decision (Programmed)
Productivity
nAff
Human Skill
30. Growing within the same business area
SoC (Span of Control)
Ethics
(Growth through)Concentration
Top Manager
31. An unfulfilled physiological or psychological desire.
Psychological Contract
Strategy
Middle Manager
Need
32. The requirement to show performance results to a supervisor
Accountability
Policy
Decision
Direction
33. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.
Hygiene (factor)
Direction
Outsourcing
Decision
34. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment
Ethnocentrism
Job Performance
Competitive Advantage
Performance effectiveness
35. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Performance effectiveness
Knowledge Worker
Functional Strategy
36. The creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
Contingency Thinking
Budget
Synergy
Productivity
37. Local products are sold abroad
Management Science
Intellectual Capital
Conceptual Skill
Exporting
38. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
Business Strategy
nAch
Intellectual Capital
Leading
39. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Type A Personality
Direction
Controlling
40. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
Learning Organization
Intuitive Thinking
Globalization
Culture
41. Links all persons with successively higher levels of authority.
CoC (Chain of Command)
Mentoring
nAch
Retrenchment Strategy
42. Involves working at home or other places using computer links to the office.
Performance efficiency
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Productivity
Outsourcing
43. A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities
Groupthink
Unfreezing
Fred Fiedler
Refreezing
44. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Workforce Diversity
Globalization
Procedure
Core Competency
45. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Incremental Change
PC
Unfreezing
Certain Environment
46. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action
Groupthink
Delegation
Decision
BCG Matrix
47. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share
nPower
Unfreezing
BCG Matrix
Heuristics
48. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
P Decision (Programmed)
Management Science
Human Skill
Performance efficiency
49. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
Job Enrichment
Corporate Strategy
Ethics
Middle Manager
50. Approaches problems in a rational and analytical fashion.
Systematic Thinking
Intellectual Capital
Culture
Type A Personality