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Business Leadership
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business-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment
Leading
Performance effectiveness
Outsourcing
Decision
2. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.
Hygiene (factor)
Satisfier (factor)
Problem Solving
Exporting
3. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented
Transformational Change
Fred Fiedler
Network Structure
CoC (Chain of Command)
4. A work unit or smaller component within a larger organization
Systematic Thinking
Groupthink
Information System
Subsystem
5. Describes the differences among workers in gender - race - age - ethnic culture - able-bodiness - religious affiliation - and sexual orientation.
Workforce Diversity
Intuitive Thinking
Escalating Commitment
Procedure
6. An unfulfilled physiological or psychological desire.
Human Skill
Need
P Decision (Programmed)
Strategy
7. The process of assigning tasks - allocating resources - and arranging activities to implement plans.
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
(Growth through) Diversification
Contingency Thinking
Organizing
8. Approaches problems in a flexible and spontaneous fashion.
Satisfier (factor)
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Intuitive Thinking
Functional Strategy
9. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.
Delegation
Innovation
BCG Matrix
Law of Effect
10. Ability x Support x Effort
Accountability
Technical Skill
Policy
Performance
11. The overall quality of human experiences in the workplace.
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Exporting
Escalating Commitment
Job Enrichment
12. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Budget
Importing
PC
Type A Personality
13. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.
Intellectual Capital
nAff
Job Enrichment
Manager
14. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.
Core Competency
Management Science
Retrenchment Strategy
Ethnocentrism
15. A standing plan that communicates guidelines for decisions and action
Innovation
Human Skill
Type A Personality
Policy
16. Involves an experienced person offering performance advice to a less-experienced person
Psychological Contract
Coaching
Refreezing
Accountability
17. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
Risk Environment
Performance
Human Skill
Need
18. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
Subsystem
Heuristics
Core Competency
Job Enrichment
19. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
Escalating Commitment
nPower
Decision
Strategy
20. Offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.
Intellectual Capital
Certain Environment
Heuristics
Automation
21. Uses IT (information technology) to link with networks of outside suppliers and service contractors
Job Performance
Network Structure
Cross functional team
Job Enrichment
22. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
Performance
Action Research
Knowledge Worker
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
23. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
PC
Procedure
Hygiene (factor)
Ethnocentrism
24. Involves identifying and taking action to resolve problems
Planning
Problem Solving
Retrenchment Strategy
Certain Environment
25. Provides learning opportunities to acquire and improve job related skills
Training
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Technical Skill
Lifelong Learning
26. Found in job content - such as a sense of achievement - recognition - or personal growth.
Network Structure
Satisfier (factor)
Performance efficiency
Groupthink
27. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones
Uncertain Environment
Mentoring
Learning Organization
Heuristics
28. The creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
Job Enrichment
Synergy
Incremental Change
SoC (Span of Control)
29. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem
Skill
Accountability
Importing
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
30. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
Culture
Learning Organization
Core Competency
Functional Strategy
31. Involves working at home or other places using computer links to the office.
Unfreezing
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Accountability
Top Manager
32. A comprehensive plan guiding resource allocation to achieve long-term organizational goals.
Strategy
nPower
Job Performance
Escalating Commitment
33. The requirement to show performance results to a supervisor
Contingency Thinking
Accountability
Subsystem
Delegation
34. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.
Budget
Virtual Organization
Direction
Mentoring
35. Use IT to collect - organize - and distribute data for use in decision making
Information System
Automation
Network Structure
Controlling
36. Involves reducing the scale of current operations
Retrenchment Strategy
Intuitive Thinking
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Transformational Change
37. WOT
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Team Structure
Intellectual Capital
Training
38. Behaviour followed by pleasant consequences is like to be repeated; behaviour followed by unpleasant work conditions is not.
Action Research
Psychological Contract
Law of Effect
Coaching
39. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.
Boundaryless Organizations
Planning
Law of Effect
nAff
40. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
nAch
Human Skill
Planning
Organizing
41. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
Competitive Advantage
Intellectual Capital
Hygiene (factor)
Business Strategy
42. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.
Human Skill
Functional Strategy
Lifelong Learning
Subsystem
43. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Refreezing
Globalization
Incremental Change
Cross functional team
44. Utilizes people - values - and systems to continously change and improve its performance.
Exporting
Learning Organization
Coaching
Policy
45. The number of subordinates directly reporting to a manager
Cross functional team
SoC (Span of Control)
Lifelong Learning
Boundaryless Organizations
46. The ability to think analytically and solve complex problems to the benefit of everyone involved.
Heuristics
Conceptual Skill
Contingency Thinking
Satisficing Decision
47. Expectancy x Instrumentality x Valence
Functional Strategy
Risk Environment
Motivation
Learning Organization
48. Local products are sold abroad
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Exporting
Reactive Change
Productivity
49. Uses permanent and temporary cross-functional teams to improve lateral relations
Incremental Change
Synergy
Importing
Team Structure
50. Results in a major and comprehensive redirection of the organization.
Corporate Strategy
Procedure
Transformational Change
Conceptual Skill