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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. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
Ethnocentrism
Escalating Commitment
Job Enrichment
Groupthink
2. A standing plan that communicates guidelines for decisions and action
Certain Environment
Policy
Boundaryless Organizations
Procedure
3. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Boundaryless Organizations
(Growth through) Diversification
Coaching
Business Strategy
4. The overall quality of human experiences in the workplace.
BCG Matrix
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Training
Systematic Thinking
5. When a business function is contracted to an outside supplier
Outsourcing
Satisfier (factor)
BCG Matrix
Planning
6. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
Team Structure
(Growth through) Diversification
BCG Matrix
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
7. The requirement to show performance results to a supervisor
Prejudice
Psychological Contract
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Accountability
8. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Procedure
Transformational Change
Manager
Strategy
9. Lacking so much information that it is difficult to assign probabilities to the outcomes of alternatives.
Uncertain Environment
Corporate Strategy
Productivity
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
10. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.
Technical Skill
Importing
Escalating Commitment
Human Skill
11. Uses permanent and temporary cross-functional teams to improve lateral relations
Team Structure
Escalating Commitment
Controlling
Risk Environment
12. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
Direction
Risk Environment
Strategy
Top Manager
13. Results in a major and comprehensive redirection of the organization.
Decision
Outsourcing
Transformational Change
nPower
14. The process of taking a new idea and putting it into practice.
Outsourcing
Core Competency
Innovation
Policy
15. Growing within the same business area
Performance
PC
(Growth through)Concentration
Subsystem
16. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
Performance efficiency
Psychological Contract
Skill
Certain Environment
17. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.
P Decision (Programmed)
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Technical Skill
Prejudice
18. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.
SoC (Span of Control)
Innovation
Middle Manager
Globalization
19. Describes the differences among workers in gender - race - age - ethnic culture - able-bodiness - religious affiliation - and sexual orientation.
Workforce Diversity
Risk Environment
Manager
Virtual Organization
20. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
Type A Personality
Policy
Heuristics
Performance
21. A shared set of beliefs - values - and patterns of behavior common to a group of people
Intuitive Thinking
Satisfier (factor)
Culture
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
22. Making managerial decisions based on the situation; Management is not a science.
Reactive Change
Unfreezing
Functional Chimney Problem
Contingency Thinking
23. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
Competitive Advantage
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Performance effectiveness
Organizing
24. Physical and Mental exhaustion that can be incapacitating personally and in respect to work.
Procedure
Automation
Job Burnout
Type A Personality
25. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Accountability
Performance effectiveness
(Growth through)Concentration
26. WOT
Corporate Strategy
Policy
Action Research
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
27. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.
Training
Exporting
Subsystem
Corporate Strategy
28. The display of negative - irrational attitudes toward woman or minorities.
Modeling
Reactive Change
Functional Strategy
Prejudice
29. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
Psychological Contract
Job Burnout
Crisis
nPower
30. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
Planning
Groupthink
Problem Solving
Uncertain Environment
31. The ability to translate knowledge into action that results in desired performance
Skill
BCG Matrix
Incremental Change
Performance effectiveness
32. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.
Satisfier (factor)
Intuitive Thinking
Coaching
Psychological Contract
33. Links all persons with successively higher levels of authority.
Accountability
Technical Skill
Leading
CoC (Chain of Command)
34. The number of subordinates directly reporting to a manager
SoC (Span of Control)
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Globalization
Subsystem
35. Offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.
Certain Environment
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Automation
Transformational Change
36. The tendancy to consider one's culture as superior to others
CoC (Chain of Command)
Ethnocentrism
Planned Change
Uncertain Environment
37. Responds to events as or after they occur.
Action Research
Subsystem
Modeling
Reactive Change
38. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.
Satisfier (factor)
Intellectual Capital
CoC (Chain of Command)
Controlling
39. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.
Top Manager
Information System
Mentoring
Automation
40. Expectancy x Instrumentality x Valence
Exporting
Competitive Advantage
Motivation
Delegation
41. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
Knowledge Worker
Policy
Contingency Thinking
Competitive Advantage
42. Use IT to collect - organize - and distribute data for use in decision making
Performance effectiveness
Job Performance
PC
Information System
43. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Skill
Human Skill
Uncertain Environment
Incremental Change
44. Found in job content - such as a sense of achievement - recognition - or personal growth.
nAff
Coaching
Satisfier (factor)
nPower
45. Provides learning opportunities to acquire and improve job related skills
Productivity
nAff
Delegation
Training
46. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem
Intellectual Capital
P Decision (Programmed)
Middle Manager
Team Structure
47. The phase during which a situation is prepared for change.
Training
Knowledge Worker
Importing
Unfreezing
48. The total mechanization of a job.
Management Science
Automation
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Law of Effect
49. Aligns the organization with anticipated future challenges.
Automation
BCG Matrix
Planned Change
Functional Strategy
50. Utilizes people - values - and systems to continously change and improve its performance.
Technical Skill
Learning Organization
nAch
Productivity