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Business Leadership
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business-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A plan that commits resources to projects or activities
Lifelong Learning
Virtual Organization
Budget
PC
2. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem
Need
Virtual Organization
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Productivity
3. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
Exporting
Lifelong Learning
Conceptual Skill
Groupthink
4. Uses IT (information technology) to link with networks of outside suppliers and service contractors
Network Structure
Accountability
Job Burnout
CoC (Chain of Command)
5. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Modeling
Procedure
Importing
Top Manager
6. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
Competitive Advantage
Ethnocentrism
Training
Leading
7. Ability x Support x Effort
Motivation
Decision
Performance
Synergy
8. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
Unfreezing
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Training
Planning
9. The process of taking a new idea and putting it into practice.
Prejudice
Functional Strategy
Innovation
Core Competency
10. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem
Lifelong Learning
P Decision (Programmed)
Intellectual Capital
Retrenchment Strategy
11. The creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
Synergy
Motivation
Job Burnout
Contingency Thinking
12. Provides learning opportunities to acquire and improve job related skills
Contingency Thinking
Risk Environment
Training
Competitive Advantage
13. Approaches problems in a rational and analytical fashion.
Systematic Thinking
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Unfreezing
Boundaryless Organizations
14. The number of subordinates directly reporting to a manager
SoC (Span of Control)
Human Skill
Systematic Thinking
Performance effectiveness
15. Sets standards as to what is good or bad or right or wrong in ones conduct.
Law of Effect
nPower
BCG Matrix
Ethics
16. The phase during which a situation is prepared for change.
nAff
Coaching
Leading
Unfreezing
17. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.
Performance effectiveness
Virtual Organization
Intellectual Capital
Corporate Strategy
18. Links all persons with successively higher levels of authority.
Uncertain Environment
Prejudice
Need
CoC (Chain of Command)
19. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Decision
Escalating Commitment
Cross functional team
Incremental Change
20. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
Risk Environment
Certain Environment
Human Skill
Lifelong Learning
21. Found in job content - such as a sense of achievement - recognition - or personal growth.
Satisfier (factor)
Top Manager
Uncertain Environment
Law of Effect
22. Is by acquiring suppliers and distributors
Intuitive Thinking
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
nAff
Decision
23. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.
Delegation
Workforce Diversity
Culture
Job Performance
24. Responds to events as or after they occur.
Planned Change
Modeling
Reactive Change
Type A Personality
25. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment
Subsystem
Modeling
Knowledge Worker
Performance effectiveness
26. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
Functional Strategy
Knowledge Worker
Learning Organization
Intuitive Thinking
27. Growing within the same business area
Action Research
(Growth through)Concentration
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Conceptual Skill
28. The process of measuring performance and taking action to ensure desired results
Subsystem
Coaching
Controlling
Type A Personality
29. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
BCG Matrix
SoC (Span of Control)
CoC (Chain of Command)
30. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.
Management Science
Technical Skill
Skill
Automation
31. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.
Human Skill
Mentoring
Top Manager
Incremental Change
32. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people
Delegation
nAff
Intuitive Thinking
PC
33. The ability to translate knowledge into action that results in desired performance
Learning Organization
Skill
SoC (Span of Control)
Organizing
34. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
Manager
PC
Conceptual Skill
Escalating Commitment
35. Involves identifying and taking action to resolve problems
Problem Solving
BCG Matrix
Intellectual Capital
CoC (Chain of Command)
36. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.
Law of Effect
Direction
Procedure
Innovation
37. Choosing the first satisfactory alternative that comes to attention
Contingency Thinking
Conceptual Skill
Satisficing Decision
Psychological Contract
38. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
Culture
Reactive Change
nAch
Unfreezing
39. The total mechanization of a job.
Functional Chimney Problem
Incremental Change
Automation
PC
40. The tendancy to consider one's culture as superior to others
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
P Decision (Programmed)
Unfreezing
Ethnocentrism
41. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Functional Chimney Problem
Business Strategy
Uncertain Environment
CoC (Chain of Command)
42. A special strength that gives an organization a competitive advantage.
Contingency Thinking
Training
Core Competency
Coaching
43. Offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.
Technical Skill
Manager
Certain Environment
Functional Chimney Problem
44. The process of arousing enthusiasm and directing efforts towards organizational goals.
nAch
Risk Environment
Leading
Core Competency
45. Use IT to collect - organize - and distribute data for use in decision making
Information System
Systematic Thinking
Fred Fiedler
Workforce Diversity
46. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
Performance efficiency
Coaching
Globalization
Innovation
47. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.
Action Research
Innovation
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Hygiene (factor)
48. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
nAff
Team Structure
Job Enrichment
49. Local products are sold abroad
Hygiene (factor)
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Exporting
Decision
50. Involves working at home or other places using computer links to the office.
Boundaryless Organizations
Modeling
Virtual Organization
Telecommuting (flexiplace)