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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. A person who supports and is responsible for the work of others.
Job Performance
Boundaryless Organizations
Manager
PC
2. The ability to translate knowledge into action that results in desired performance
Functional Chimney Problem
Skill
Mentoring
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
3. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
Outsourcing
Certain Environment
Core Competency
PC
4. Uses IT (information technology) to link with networks of outside suppliers and service contractors
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Network Structure
Problem Solving
nAff
5. The continuation of a course of action even though it is not working
Escalating Commitment
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Law of Effect
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
6. Strategies for simplifying decision-making
Heuristics
Contingency Thinking
Functional Chimney Problem
Technical Skill
7. The phase at which change is stabilized.
Refreezing
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Satisfier (factor)
Human Skill
8. Use IT to collect - organize - and distribute data for use in decision making
Groupthink
Modeling
Information System
Law of Effect
9. The process of measuring performance and taking action to ensure desired results
Leading
Controlling
Coaching
Satisficing Decision
10. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.
Management Science
Escalating Commitment
Subsystem
Learning Organization
11. A shared set of beliefs - values - and patterns of behavior common to a group of people
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Culture
P Decision (Programmed)
Type A Personality
12. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.
Boundaryless Organizations
Cross functional team
Direction
Psychological Contract
13. The process of taking a new idea and putting it into practice.
P Decision (Programmed)
Innovation
Core Competency
Problem Solving
14. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Budget
Manager
Satisfier (factor)
Incremental Change
15. Growing within the same business area
(Growth through)Concentration
Culture
(Growth through) Diversification
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
16. The overall quality of human experiences in the workplace.
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Law of Effect
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Coaching
17. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
Law of Effect
Psychological Contract
Knowledge Worker
Cross functional team
18. Found in job content - such as a sense of achievement - recognition - or personal growth.
Satisfier (factor)
Core Competency
Modeling
Cross functional team
19. Aligns the organization with anticipated future challenges.
Hygiene (factor)
nAch
Planned Change
Mentoring
20. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.
Hygiene (factor)
Uncertain Environment
Innovation
Importing
21. Responds to events as or after they occur.
Leading
Synergy
Reactive Change
Unfreezing
22. The number of subordinates directly reporting to a manager
nPower
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
SoC (Span of Control)
Automation
23. The process of arousing enthusiasm and directing efforts towards organizational goals.
Globalization
Leading
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Law of Effect
24. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment
Lifelong Learning
Performance effectiveness
Business Strategy
nPower
25. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
Knowledge Worker
Competitive Advantage
Performance efficiency
Uncertain Environment
26. An unexpected problem that can lead to disaster if not resolved quickly and appropriately
Crisis
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Law of Effect
Middle Manager
27. An unfulfilled physiological or psychological desire.
Importing
Accountability
Need
Core Competency
28. Offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.
Lifelong Learning
Modeling
Coaching
Certain Environment
29. The display of negative - irrational attitudes toward woman or minorities.
Conceptual Skill
Prejudice
Controlling
Skill
30. The total mechanization of a job.
Automation
Outsourcing
Delegation
Functional Chimney Problem
31. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
Intellectual Capital
Conceptual Skill
(Growth through) Diversification
Performance efficiency
32. Utilizes people - values - and systems to continously change and improve its performance.
Direction
Groupthink
Learning Organization
Action Research
33. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
Lifelong Learning
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Hygiene (factor)
PC
34. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
Intuitive Thinking
Organizing
Automation
Job Performance
35. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.
Problem Solving
Crisis
Direction
Skill
36. Results in a major and comprehensive redirection of the organization.
Transformational Change
nAch
Certain Environment
Coaching
37. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.
Action Research
nPower
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Procedure
38. A shifting network of strategic alliances that are engaged as needed
Importing
Virtual Organization
Need
Decision
39. Sets standards as to what is good or bad or right or wrong in ones conduct.
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Automation
Coaching
Ethics
40. The creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
Core Competency
Synergy
P Decision (Programmed)
Systematic Thinking
41. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.
Automation
Intellectual Capital
Transformational Change
Controlling
42. Expectancy x Instrumentality x Valence
Organizing
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Motivation
Job Enrichment
43. Involves reducing the scale of current operations
Planning
Fred Fiedler
Retrenchment Strategy
Budget
44. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
Incremental Change
Performance efficiency
Heuristics
Cross functional team
45. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
Job Enrichment
Competitive Advantage
Problem Solving
Network Structure
46. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.
Planned Change
Technical Skill
Heuristics
P Decision (Programmed)
47. Ability x Support x Effort
Performance
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Accountability
Modeling
48. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
Type A Personality
Importing
Intellectual Capital
Cross functional team
49. Choosing the first satisfactory alternative that comes to attention
Retrenchment Strategy
Need
Satisficing Decision
Ethics
50. Local products are sold abroad
Escalating Commitment
Outsourcing
Exporting
Technical Skill