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Business Leadership
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business-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Links all persons with successively higher levels of authority.
Information System
Retrenchment Strategy
CoC (Chain of Command)
Productivity
2. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
CoC (Chain of Command)
Functional Strategy
Management Science
Decision
3. A plan that commits resources to projects or activities
Corporate Strategy
Budget
Strategy
nAch
4. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.
Performance efficiency
Need
Corporate Strategy
Organizing
5. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
Job Enrichment
Reactive Change
Information System
Boundaryless Organizations
6. Ability x Support x Effort
Law of Effect
Virtual Organization
Core Competency
Performance
7. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.
Management Science
Groupthink
Reactive Change
Job Enrichment
8. Growing within the same business area
Satisfier (factor)
Conceptual Skill
nPower
(Growth through)Concentration
9. The creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
Synergy
Risk Environment
Mentoring
Incremental Change
10. Brings together members from different functional departments
Corporate Strategy
Cross functional team
(Growth through)Concentration
Information System
11. Involves identifying and taking action to resolve problems
Leading
Unfreezing
Problem Solving
Ethics
12. A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities
Groupthink
Certain Environment
Functional Strategy
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
13. WOT
Subsystem
Performance
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Planned Change
14. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share
BCG Matrix
Job Enrichment
Refreezing
Retrenchment Strategy
15. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.
Business Strategy
Accountability
Culture
Intellectual Capital
16. The application of operant conditioning to influence human behaviour at work.
Accountability
Functional Strategy
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Retrenchment Strategy
17. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
Planned Change
Ethnocentrism
Job Performance
Contingency Thinking
18. The requirement to show performance results to a supervisor
Virtual Organization
Accountability
Corporate Strategy
Procedure
19. Aligns the organization with anticipated future challenges.
Planned Change
Importing
Management Science
Coaching
20. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.
Human Skill
Risk Environment
Boundaryless Organizations
Corporate Strategy
21. An unexpected problem that can lead to disaster if not resolved quickly and appropriately
Ethnocentrism
Functional Strategy
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Crisis
22. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
Law of Effect
Fred Fiedler
Ethics
PC
23. Use IT to collect - organize - and distribute data for use in decision making
Information System
Transformational Change
Uncertain Environment
Fred Fiedler
24. A shifting network of strategic alliances that are engaged as needed
Virtual Organization
Cross functional team
Workforce Diversity
Culture
25. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.
Business Strategy
Satisficing Decision
Middle Manager
nPower
26. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.
Direction
Modeling
Strategy
Delegation
27. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
Skill
PC
Knowledge Worker
Subsystem
28. Is by acquiring suppliers and distributors
Certain Environment
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Decision
Conceptual Skill
29. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action
Importing
Cross functional team
Refreezing
Decision
30. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.
Action Research
Heuristics
Crisis
Skill
31. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.
Contingency Thinking
Psychological Contract
Cross functional team
Workforce Diversity
32. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.
Globalization
Virtual Organization
Middle Manager
Hygiene (factor)
33. A lack of communication and coordination across functions.
Strategy
Functional Chimney Problem
Planning
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
34. An invisible barrier limiting the advancement of woman and minorities
Decision
Problem Solving
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Motivation
35. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
Policy
Human Skill
Performance efficiency
BCG Matrix
36. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Fred Fiedler
Competitive Advantage
Globalization
37. The process of assigning tasks - allocating resources - and arranging activities to implement plans.
Intuitive Thinking
nAch
Planning
Organizing
38. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Management Science
(Growth through) Diversification
Planned Change
39. Local products are sold abroad
Direction
Exporting
Globalization
Fred Fiedler
40. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.
Accountability
Technical Skill
Certain Environment
Network Structure
41. The ability to think analytically and solve complex problems to the benefit of everyone involved.
Conceptual Skill
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Incremental Change
42. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Automation
Uncertain Environment
Business Strategy
SoC (Span of Control)
43. Found in job content - such as a sense of achievement - recognition - or personal growth.
Satisfier (factor)
PC
Middle Manager
Workforce Diversity
44. Responds to events as or after they occur.
nAff
Type A Personality
Middle Manager
Reactive Change
45. Expectancy x Instrumentality x Valence
Delegation
Globalization
Procedure
Motivation
46. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
Boundaryless Organizations
CoC (Chain of Command)
Automation
Lifelong Learning
47. The process of taking a new idea and putting it into practice.
Innovation
Virtual Organization
Incremental Change
Technical Skill
48. A work unit or smaller component within a larger organization
Technical Skill
Subsystem
Psychological Contract
Planning
49. Uses IT (information technology) to link with networks of outside suppliers and service contractors
CoC (Chain of Command)
Satisfier (factor)
Organizing
Network Structure
50. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Unfreezing
Coaching
Retrenchment Strategy
Procedure