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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
Training
Globalization
Functional Chimney Problem
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
2. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment
Business Strategy
Information System
Performance effectiveness
Intellectual Capital
3. The requirement to show performance results to a supervisor
Policy
Controlling
Reactive Change
Accountability
4. The continuation of a course of action even though it is not working
Escalating Commitment
Organizing
Ethics
Top Manager
5. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
(Growth through) Diversification
BCG Matrix
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Innovation
6. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
Planning
Retrenchment Strategy
(Growth through)Concentration
Transformational Change
7. Physical and Mental exhaustion that can be incapacitating personally and in respect to work.
Job Burnout
Functional Strategy
Systematic Thinking
Importing
8. A shifting network of strategic alliances that are engaged as needed
(Growth through) Diversification
Virtual Organization
Job Performance
Procedure
9. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
nAch
Innovation
Training
Top Manager
10. WOT
Motivation
Incremental Change
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Direction
11. The process of assigning tasks - allocating resources - and arranging activities to implement plans.
Cross functional team
BCG Matrix
Organizing
nAff
12. Responds to events as or after they occur.
Reactive Change
Ethnocentrism
Job Performance
Risk Environment
13. Offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.
Certain Environment
Knowledge Worker
Job Burnout
Intellectual Capital
14. Use IT to collect - organize - and distribute data for use in decision making
Information System
Motivation
Systematic Thinking
Accountability
15. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.
Hygiene (factor)
Technical Skill
Intellectual Capital
Policy
16. Uses IT (information technology) to link with networks of outside suppliers and service contractors
Unfreezing
Reactive Change
Network Structure
Innovation
17. The quantity and quality of work performance - with resource utilization considered.
Productivity
Incremental Change
Policy
Unfreezing
18. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.
Knowledge Worker
Organizing
Direction
Psychological Contract
19. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
(Growth through)Concentration
Job Burnout
Lifelong Learning
Decision
20. A lack of communication and coordination across functions.
Core Competency
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Automation
Functional Chimney Problem
21. Involves identifying and taking action to resolve problems
Problem Solving
Unfreezing
(Growth through)Concentration
Functional Chimney Problem
22. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
Modeling
Innovation
Lifelong Learning
Globalization
23. A special strength that gives an organization a competitive advantage.
Corporate Strategy
Core Competency
Law of Effect
Fred Fiedler
24. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Information System
Procedure
Business Strategy
Middle Manager
25. Found in job content - such as a sense of achievement - recognition - or personal growth.
Ethnocentrism
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
BCG Matrix
Satisfier (factor)
26. Brings together members from different functional departments
Planned Change
Policy
Cross functional team
Crisis
27. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
Job Enrichment
Culture
Management Science
nPower
28. The tendancy to consider one's culture as superior to others
Policy
Functional Strategy
Satisficing Decision
Ethnocentrism
29. An unfulfilled physiological or psychological desire.
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Need
Ethics
Satisficing Decision
30. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.
Human Skill
Psychological Contract
Technical Skill
Delegation
31. Results in a major and comprehensive redirection of the organization.
Motivation
Manager
Job Enrichment
Transformational Change
32. Approaches problems in a flexible and spontaneous fashion.
Psychological Contract
Productivity
Groupthink
Intuitive Thinking
33. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem
Psychological Contract
Technical Skill
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Cross functional team
34. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
Direction
Delegation
Performance efficiency
Certain Environment
35. The display of negative - irrational attitudes toward woman or minorities.
Intellectual Capital
Prejudice
Groupthink
Fred Fiedler
36. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people
Training
nAff
(Growth through)Concentration
Intuitive Thinking
37. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
Lifelong Learning
Exporting
PC
Job Enrichment
38. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.
Crisis
Transformational Change
Delegation
Ethnocentrism
39. Local products are sold abroad
nAff
Exporting
Need
Type A Personality
40. Describes the differences among workers in gender - race - age - ethnic culture - able-bodiness - religious affiliation - and sexual orientation.
Workforce Diversity
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Need
Job Burnout
41. The process of measuring performance and taking action to ensure desired results
CoC (Chain of Command)
Escalating Commitment
Controlling
Decision
42. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.
Need
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Hygiene (factor)
Learning Organization
43. Sets standards as to what is good or bad or right or wrong in ones conduct.
Ethics
Intellectual Capital
Corporate Strategy
Competitive Advantage
44. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
Problem Solving
Knowledge Worker
Crisis
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
45. A person who supports and is responsible for the work of others.
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Core Competency
Systematic Thinking
Manager
46. The number of subordinates directly reporting to a manager
Technical Skill
SoC (Span of Control)
Prejudice
Transformational Change
47. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.
Reactive Change
Leading
Management Science
Direction
48. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Modeling
Importing
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Transformational Change
49. The application of operant conditioning to influence human behaviour at work.
Modeling
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Direction
Planning
50. A work unit or smaller component within a larger organization
Procedure
Subsystem
Planning
Groupthink