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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 quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
Exporting
Fred Fiedler
Job Performance
Functional Strategy
2. The phase at which change is stabilized.
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Mentoring
nAch
Refreezing
3. A plan that commits resources to projects or activities
Budget
Intuitive Thinking
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
4. WOT
Competitive Advantage
Strategy
Team Structure
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
5. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
P Decision (Programmed)
Importing
Controlling
Job Enrichment
6. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.
Action Research
Training
Information System
SoC (Span of Control)
7. A person who supports and is responsible for the work of others.
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Reactive Change
Automation
Manager
8. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.
(Growth through) Diversification
Manager
Top Manager
Transformational Change
9. Responds to events as or after they occur.
Human Skill
Automation
Reactive Change
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
10. A lack of communication and coordination across functions.
Functional Chimney Problem
Policy
Refreezing
Job Enrichment
11. Provides learning opportunities to acquire and improve job related skills
Globalization
nPower
Job Performance
Training
12. Sets standards as to what is good or bad or right or wrong in ones conduct.
Mentoring
Ethics
Network Structure
Learning Organization
13. Is by acquiring suppliers and distributors
Transformational Change
Action Research
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Procedure
14. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
Human Skill
Risk Environment
Exporting
Lifelong Learning
15. A comprehensive plan guiding resource allocation to achieve long-term organizational goals.
BCG Matrix
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Strategy
nPower
16. An unfulfilled physiological or psychological desire.
Job Enrichment
Need
(Growth through) Diversification
Transformational Change
17. A special strength that gives an organization a competitive advantage.
Management Science
Strategy
Transformational Change
Core Competency
18. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
Job Performance
Satisfier (factor)
Uncertain Environment
(Growth through) Diversification
19. Involves reducing the scale of current operations
Transformational Change
Budget
SoC (Span of Control)
Retrenchment Strategy
20. Expectancy x Instrumentality x Valence
Team Structure
Motivation
Organizing
Groupthink
21. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
Prejudice
nAff
Competitive Advantage
nPower
22. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
Risk Environment
Retrenchment Strategy
Coaching
PC
23. The number of subordinates directly reporting to a manager
Subsystem
SoC (Span of Control)
Certain Environment
Intellectual Capital
24. Making managerial decisions based on the situation; Management is not a science.
Prejudice
Contingency Thinking
Workforce Diversity
Boundaryless Organizations
25. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Middle Manager
Procedure
Business Strategy
Corporate Strategy
26. The requirement to show performance results to a supervisor
Knowledge Worker
Mentoring
Accountability
Law of Effect
27. Involves an experienced person offering performance advice to a less-experienced person
Planning
Modeling
Coaching
Team Structure
28. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Team Structure
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Contingency Thinking
Incremental Change
29. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.
Learning Organization
Human Skill
Ethnocentrism
Problem Solving
30. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
nAch
Law of Effect
Human Skill
Refreezing
31. Growing within the same business area
Reactive Change
Functional Chimney Problem
Unfreezing
(Growth through)Concentration
32. Offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.
Certain Environment
Outsourcing
Intellectual Capital
Functional Strategy
33. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.
Accountability
Corporate Strategy
Satisfier (factor)
Law of Effect
34. Behaviour followed by pleasant consequences is like to be repeated; behaviour followed by unpleasant work conditions is not.
Mentoring
Prejudice
Hygiene (factor)
Law of Effect
35. A shared set of beliefs - values - and patterns of behavior common to a group of people
Subsystem
Workforce Diversity
Training
Culture
36. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.
Outsourcing
Job Performance
Boundaryless Organizations
Risk Environment
37. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
Skill
Type A Personality
nAch
Training
38. A standing plan that communicates guidelines for decisions and action
Subsystem
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Core Competency
Policy
39. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
Knowledge Worker
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Incremental Change
Decision
40. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
Innovation
Network Structure
Leading
Lifelong Learning
41. Choosing the first satisfactory alternative that comes to attention
Ethnocentrism
Accountability
Satisficing Decision
Systematic Thinking
42. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Modeling
Synergy
Transformational Change
Procedure
43. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Delegation
Modeling
Leading
44. Results in a major and comprehensive redirection of the organization.
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Transformational Change
Procedure
Lifelong Learning
45. The creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
Synergy
Job Burnout
Satisfier (factor)
Management Science
46. The quantity and quality of work performance - with resource utilization considered.
Psychological Contract
Manager
Law of Effect
Productivity
47. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.
Competitive Advantage
Performance efficiency
Core Competency
Intellectual Capital
48. Links all persons with successively higher levels of authority.
Job Performance
Network Structure
Coaching
CoC (Chain of Command)
49. A work unit or smaller component within a larger organization
Satisfier (factor)
Subsystem
Retrenchment Strategy
Planning
50. An unexpected problem that can lead to disaster if not resolved quickly and appropriately
Organizing
PC
Unfreezing
Crisis