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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. Is by acquiring suppliers and distributors
Synergy
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
nPower
Accountability
2. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
SoC (Span of Control)
Technical Skill
Mentoring
Globalization
3. An invisible barrier limiting the advancement of woman and minorities
Virtual Organization
Network Structure
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Decision
4. Utilizes people - values - and systems to continously change and improve its performance.
P Decision (Programmed)
Learning Organization
Business Strategy
SoC (Span of Control)
5. Local products are sold abroad
Outsourcing
Exporting
Delegation
Controlling
6. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.
Decision
Type A Personality
Technical Skill
Workforce Diversity
7. Aligns the organization with anticipated future challenges.
Planned Change
Human Skill
Synergy
Job Enrichment
8. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action
Decision
Performance effectiveness
Accountability
Globalization
9. Provides learning opportunities to acquire and improve job related skills
Reactive Change
Exporting
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Training
10. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented
Competitive Advantage
Uncertain Environment
Fred Fiedler
Planning
11. Involves working at home or other places using computer links to the office.
Skill
Functional Chimney Problem
Systematic Thinking
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
12. The phase at which change is stabilized.
Importing
Exporting
Top Manager
Refreezing
13. The process of assigning tasks - allocating resources - and arranging activities to implement plans.
Corporate Strategy
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Functional Chimney Problem
Organizing
14. Links all persons with successively higher levels of authority.
Retrenchment Strategy
Escalating Commitment
CoC (Chain of Command)
Globalization
15. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.
Modeling
Middle Manager
Contingency Thinking
Mentoring
16. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.
Business Strategy
Action Research
Satisfier (factor)
Performance effectiveness
17. Results in a major and comprehensive redirection of the organization.
Prejudice
Direction
Information System
Transformational Change
18. Brings together members from different functional departments
Contingency Thinking
Groupthink
Cross functional team
Incremental Change
19. A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities
Groupthink
Incremental Change
nAff
Technical Skill
20. The quantity and quality of work performance - with resource utilization considered.
nAff
Functional Chimney Problem
Need
Productivity
21. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.
Functional Strategy
Human Skill
Delegation
Performance
22. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Middle Manager
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Incremental Change
Business Strategy
23. Involves an experienced person offering performance advice to a less-experienced person
Coaching
Learning Organization
Team Structure
CoC (Chain of Command)
24. WOT
Accountability
Corporate Strategy
Modeling
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
25. The number of subordinates directly reporting to a manager
Controlling
SoC (Span of Control)
Performance efficiency
Fred Fiedler
26. A plan that commits resources to projects or activities
Budget
Globalization
Network Structure
Retrenchment Strategy
27. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
Lifelong Learning
(Growth through) Diversification
Satisfier (factor)
Innovation
28. Approaches problems in a flexible and spontaneous fashion.
Decision
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Intuitive Thinking
Planning
29. Physical and Mental exhaustion that can be incapacitating personally and in respect to work.
Job Burnout
Technical Skill
Procedure
Mentoring
30. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
nPower
Satisfier (factor)
Outsourcing
Risk Environment
31. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
Escalating Commitment
Lifelong Learning
Psychological Contract
Exporting
32. Uses permanent and temporary cross-functional teams to improve lateral relations
Performance efficiency
Subsystem
BCG Matrix
Team Structure
33. A lack of communication and coordination across functions.
Functional Chimney Problem
Prejudice
Intuitive Thinking
Lifelong Learning
34. The application of operant conditioning to influence human behaviour at work.
Innovation
Workforce Diversity
Modeling
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
35. A shared set of beliefs - values - and patterns of behavior common to a group of people
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Type A Personality
SoC (Span of Control)
Culture
36. The overall quality of human experiences in the workplace.
Groupthink
Globalization
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Procedure
37. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.
Intellectual Capital
Procedure
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Systematic Thinking
38. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Satisfier (factor)
Synergy
Importing
Manager
39. Growing within the same business area
Cross functional team
Coaching
Performance efficiency
(Growth through)Concentration
40. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.
Culture
Direction
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Boundaryless Organizations
41. A comprehensive plan guiding resource allocation to achieve long-term organizational goals.
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Refreezing
Controlling
Strategy
42. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
Strategy
Budget
Job Enrichment
Subsystem
43. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
Conceptual Skill
Type A Personality
Satisficing Decision
Fred Fiedler
44. A shifting network of strategic alliances that are engaged as needed
Virtual Organization
BCG Matrix
Top Manager
Productivity
45. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem
Planning
Skill
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Mentoring
46. Ability x Support x Effort
Performance
Information System
Action Research
Intellectual Capital
47. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
Culture
Lifelong Learning
Prejudice
Competitive Advantage
48. The process of measuring performance and taking action to ensure desired results
Modeling
Controlling
Ethnocentrism
Manager
49. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
Boundaryless Organizations
Uncertain Environment
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
nPower
50. The ability to translate knowledge into action that results in desired performance
Need
Skill
Core Competency
Organizing