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Business Leadership
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business-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A lack of communication and coordination across functions.
Functional Chimney Problem
BCG Matrix
Technical Skill
Synergy
2. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
Mentoring
nPower
Incremental Change
Learning Organization
3. Approaches problems in a rational and analytical fashion.
Job Performance
CoC (Chain of Command)
Prejudice
Systematic Thinking
4. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.
Human Skill
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Type A Personality
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
5. Behaviour followed by pleasant consequences is like to be repeated; behaviour followed by unpleasant work conditions is not.
Globalization
Heuristics
Law of Effect
Decision
6. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
Planning
Procedure
Globalization
Escalating Commitment
7. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.
Functional Chimney Problem
(Growth through) Diversification
Psychological Contract
Top Manager
8. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.
Innovation
Policy
Management Science
Conceptual Skill
9. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
Globalization
nAch
Manager
Corporate Strategy
10. Strategies for simplifying decision-making
Conceptual Skill
Heuristics
Middle Manager
Team Structure
11. The requirement to show performance results to a supervisor
Accountability
Boundaryless Organizations
Need
Performance effectiveness
12. The ability to translate knowledge into action that results in desired performance
Modeling
Corporate Strategy
Need
Skill
13. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Delegation
Business Strategy
Decision
Ethnocentrism
14. The overall quality of human experiences in the workplace.
nAff
Performance efficiency
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Refreezing
15. An unfulfilled physiological or psychological desire.
nAch
Procedure
Need
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
16. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
Fred Fiedler
Performance efficiency
Performance effectiveness
Crisis
17. Use IT to collect - organize - and distribute data for use in decision making
Delegation
Hygiene (factor)
Core Competency
Information System
18. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented
Leading
Top Manager
Fred Fiedler
Cross functional team
19. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
Job Performance
Synergy
Functional Chimney Problem
Controlling
20. A shifting network of strategic alliances that are engaged as needed
CoC (Chain of Command)
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Performance
Virtual Organization
21. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
nAff
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Modeling
Controlling
22. Responds to events as or after they occur.
Business Strategy
Reactive Change
Team Structure
Skill
23. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
Competitive Advantage
Transformational Change
Top Manager
Law of Effect
24. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Hygiene (factor)
nPower
25. The process of assigning tasks - allocating resources - and arranging activities to implement plans.
Manager
Cross functional team
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Organizing
26. Growing within the same business area
(Growth through)Concentration
Budget
BCG Matrix
Unfreezing
27. Expectancy x Instrumentality x Valence
Prejudice
Motivation
Management Science
Information System
28. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people
nAff
Contingency Thinking
BCG Matrix
Unfreezing
29. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
Type A Personality
Boundaryless Organizations
Corporate Strategy
Intellectual Capital
30. A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Network Structure
Groupthink
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
31. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Core Competency
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Boundaryless Organizations
Incremental Change
32. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.
Systematic Thinking
Intellectual Capital
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Team Structure
33. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
Lifelong Learning
Intuitive Thinking
Performance effectiveness
Knowledge Worker
34. Links all persons with successively higher levels of authority.
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
CoC (Chain of Command)
Importing
Prejudice
35. Provides learning opportunities to acquire and improve job related skills
Delegation
Training
Intuitive Thinking
Globalization
36. Describes the differences among workers in gender - race - age - ethnic culture - able-bodiness - religious affiliation - and sexual orientation.
Performance effectiveness
Job Burnout
Job Enrichment
Workforce Diversity
37. The display of negative - irrational attitudes toward woman or minorities.
Crisis
Prejudice
Refreezing
Procedure
38. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
Technical Skill
Planned Change
Job Enrichment
Systematic Thinking
39. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
Strategy
Motivation
Functional Strategy
Job Burnout
40. A person who supports and is responsible for the work of others.
Certain Environment
Budget
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Manager
41. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.
Technical Skill
Top Manager
Mentoring
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
42. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones
Subsystem
Strategy
Mentoring
Importing
43. The quantity and quality of work performance - with resource utilization considered.
Productivity
Modeling
Knowledge Worker
Cross functional team
44. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
Risk Environment
Knowledge Worker
Need
Delegation
45. Uses IT (information technology) to link with networks of outside suppliers and service contractors
Skill
Direction
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Network Structure
46. The continuation of a course of action even though it is not working
Outsourcing
Workforce Diversity
Incremental Change
Escalating Commitment
47. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem
Ethnocentrism
Knowledge Worker
Training
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
48. When a business function is contracted to an outside supplier
Modeling
Outsourcing
Job Burnout
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
49. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Delegation
Job Performance
nAch
50. The phase at which change is stabilized.
Direction
Transformational Change
Refreezing
Procedure