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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. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem
Heuristics
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Culture
BCG Matrix
2. Approaches problems in a rational and analytical fashion.
Strategy
Hygiene (factor)
Systematic Thinking
Manager
3. Utilizes people - values - and systems to continously change and improve its performance.
Learning Organization
SoC (Span of Control)
Management Science
Ethnocentrism
4. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share
Prejudice
BCG Matrix
Human Skill
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
5. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Skill
nAch
Core Competency
Importing
6. Strategies for simplifying decision-making
PC
CoC (Chain of Command)
Heuristics
nAch
7. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people
Planned Change
Fred Fiedler
nAff
Management Science
8. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
Heuristics
PC
Business Strategy
Refreezing
9. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.
Heuristics
nAch
PC
Delegation
10. The creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
Synergy
Information System
P Decision (Programmed)
Controlling
11. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.
Cross functional team
Boundaryless Organizations
Outsourcing
Productivity
12. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.
(Growth through) Diversification
Innovation
Top Manager
Intellectual Capital
13. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.
Job Performance
Modeling
Corporate Strategy
Subsystem
14. A special strength that gives an organization a competitive advantage.
Core Competency
Functional Strategy
Transformational Change
Importing
15. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Network Structure
Business Strategy
Hygiene (factor)
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
16. The requirement to show performance results to a supervisor
nPower
Incremental Change
Business Strategy
Accountability
17. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
P Decision (Programmed)
Organizing
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Performance efficiency
18. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
Team Structure
Satisfier (factor)
Globalization
Crisis
19. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.
Management Science
Strategy
Controlling
Job Performance
20. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Transformational Change
Incremental Change
Performance
Culture
21. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment
BCG Matrix
Strategy
Performance effectiveness
Technical Skill
22. A shifting network of strategic alliances that are engaged as needed
Virtual Organization
Network Structure
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
23. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.
Direction
Coaching
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Transformational Change
24. Sets standards as to what is good or bad or right or wrong in ones conduct.
Ethics
Learning Organization
Certain Environment
Planning
25. Involves an experienced person offering performance advice to a less-experienced person
Coaching
Accountability
Delegation
Procedure
26. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
Job Enrichment
Intuitive Thinking
Heuristics
Functional Strategy
27. Ability x Support x Effort
Ethics
Performance
Mentoring
Exporting
28. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.
Performance effectiveness
Human Skill
Psychological Contract
Satisficing Decision
29. The ability to think analytically and solve complex problems to the benefit of everyone involved.
Law of Effect
Conceptual Skill
Satisfier (factor)
Performance efficiency
30. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Unfreezing
Mentoring
Competitive Advantage
31. A shared set of beliefs - values - and patterns of behavior common to a group of people
Learning Organization
Culture
Training
Problem Solving
32. The overall quality of human experiences in the workplace.
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
P Decision (Programmed)
Ethnocentrism
Risk Environment
33. Approaches problems in a flexible and spontaneous fashion.
Intuitive Thinking
Lifelong Learning
Procedure
Leading
34. Brings together members from different functional departments
Type A Personality
Cross functional team
CoC (Chain of Command)
Intuitive Thinking
35. Involves reducing the scale of current operations
Heuristics
Retrenchment Strategy
Delegation
Coaching
36. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.
Delegation
Subsystem
Middle Manager
Action Research
37. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
Learning Organization
nAch
CoC (Chain of Command)
Human Skill
38. Expectancy x Instrumentality x Valence
Law of Effect
Motivation
Organizing
Heuristics
39. The total mechanization of a job.
Network Structure
Contingency Thinking
Refreezing
Automation
40. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
Heuristics
Modeling
Performance
Training
41. The application of operant conditioning to influence human behaviour at work.
Workforce Diversity
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Performance efficiency
42. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
Innovation
Action Research
Job Performance
Ethics
43. Offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.
Certain Environment
Automation
Learning Organization
Culture
44. Aligns the organization with anticipated future challenges.
Planned Change
BCG Matrix
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Subsystem
45. Physical and Mental exhaustion that can be incapacitating personally and in respect to work.
Synergy
Job Burnout
Escalating Commitment
Learning Organization
46. A standing plan that communicates guidelines for decisions and action
Certain Environment
SoC (Span of Control)
Policy
Human Skill
47. The process of assigning tasks - allocating resources - and arranging activities to implement plans.
Organizing
Innovation
Workforce Diversity
Certain Environment
48. When a business function is contracted to an outside supplier
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Coaching
Outsourcing
Business Strategy
49. Making managerial decisions based on the situation; Management is not a science.
Outsourcing
Planning
Contingency Thinking
Mentoring
50. Involves identifying and taking action to resolve problems
Business Strategy
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Satisficing Decision
Problem Solving
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