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Business Leadership

Subject : 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. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.






2. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.






3. The phase during which a situation is prepared for change.






4. Utilizes people - values - and systems to continously change and improve its performance.






5. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.






6. Use IT to collect - organize - and distribute data for use in decision making






7. The requirement to show performance results to a supervisor






8. Approaches problems in a flexible and spontaneous fashion.






9. Involves reducing the scale of current operations






10. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones






11. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.






12. Is by acquiring suppliers and distributors






13. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities






14. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.






15. Involves an experienced person offering performance advice to a less-experienced person






16. Found in job content - such as a sense of achievement - recognition - or personal growth.






17. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.






18. Offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.






19. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.






20. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.






21. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.






22. Making managerial decisions based on the situation; Management is not a science.






23. Expectancy x Instrumentality x Valence






24. The tendancy to consider one's culture as superior to others






25. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem






26. The creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.






27. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.






28. Growing within the same business area






29. The phase at which change is stabilized.






30. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.






31. The overall quality of human experiences in the workplace.






32. An invisible barrier limiting the advancement of woman and minorities






33. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.






34. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem






35. A special strength that gives an organization a competitive advantage.






36. The application of operant conditioning to influence human behaviour at work.






37. Responds to events as or after they occur.






38. The display of negative - irrational attitudes toward woman or minorities.






39. Local products are sold abroad






40. The quantity and quality of work performance - with resource utilization considered.






41. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment






42. The ability to think analytically and solve complex problems to the benefit of everyone involved.






43. A lack of communication and coordination across functions.






44. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems






45. Behaviour followed by pleasant consequences is like to be repeated; behaviour followed by unpleasant work conditions is not.






46. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.






47. The process of arousing enthusiasm and directing efforts towards organizational goals.






48. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.






49. Involves working at home or other places using computer links to the office.






50. A work unit or smaller component within a larger organization