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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. A shifting network of strategic alliances that are engaged as needed
Systematic Thinking
Skill
Problem Solving
Virtual Organization
2. The phase at which change is stabilized.
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Virtual Organization
Refreezing
Culture
3. A special strength that gives an organization a competitive advantage.
Incremental Change
Core Competency
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Innovation
4. The phase during which a situation is prepared for change.
Unfreezing
Workforce Diversity
Top Manager
Satisficing Decision
5. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.
Boundaryless Organizations
Manager
Delegation
Performance effectiveness
6. The display of negative - irrational attitudes toward woman or minorities.
Functional Chimney Problem
Prejudice
Performance effectiveness
Refreezing
7. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
Controlling
Job Performance
Direction
Accountability
8. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
Automation
Conceptual Skill
nPower
Policy
9. Brings together members from different functional departments
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Cross functional team
Middle Manager
Modeling
10. A plan that commits resources to projects or activities
Functional Chimney Problem
Intellectual Capital
Budget
Culture
11. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.
Problem Solving
Intuitive Thinking
Importing
Top Manager
12. Links all persons with successively higher levels of authority.
CoC (Chain of Command)
Core Competency
Refreezing
Groupthink
13. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
Lifelong Learning
Type A Personality
Unfreezing
Cross functional team
14. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Exporting
SoC (Span of Control)
nAch
Incremental Change
15. Making managerial decisions based on the situation; Management is not a science.
Importing
Contingency Thinking
CoC (Chain of Command)
Culture
16. Physical and Mental exhaustion that can be incapacitating personally and in respect to work.
Top Manager
Competitive Advantage
Crisis
Job Burnout
17. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
Training
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
nAch
Risk Environment
18. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
PC
Procedure
Coaching
Performance efficiency
19. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
Organizing
Knowledge Worker
Automation
Law of Effect
20. Describes the differences among workers in gender - race - age - ethnic culture - able-bodiness - religious affiliation - and sexual orientation.
Intellectual Capital
Workforce Diversity
Direction
Lifelong Learning
21. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.
Problem Solving
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Intellectual Capital
Modeling
22. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented
Ethnocentrism
Fred Fiedler
Culture
Boundaryless Organizations
23. A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities
Prejudice
Subsystem
Groupthink
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
24. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.
Culture
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Technical Skill
Core Competency
25. Is by acquiring suppliers and distributors
Controlling
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Knowledge Worker
Crisis
26. WOT
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Technical Skill
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Planned Change
27. The ability to think analytically and solve complex problems to the benefit of everyone involved.
Intuitive Thinking
Need
Conceptual Skill
nPower
28. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.
Lifelong Learning
Fred Fiedler
Team Structure
Boundaryless Organizations
29. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
Policy
Escalating Commitment
Top Manager
Globalization
30. The quantity and quality of work performance - with resource utilization considered.
(Growth through)Concentration
Productivity
Refreezing
Functional Strategy
31. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones
Mentoring
Uncertain Environment
Job Performance
Strategy
32. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
Performance efficiency
Planning
Human Skill
Risk Environment
33. Choosing the first satisfactory alternative that comes to attention
Training
Technical Skill
Synergy
Satisficing Decision
34. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.
Team Structure
Ethics
Middle Manager
Information System
35. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.
Action Research
Exporting
Conceptual Skill
Hygiene (factor)
36. Involves an experienced person offering performance advice to a less-experienced person
Retrenchment Strategy
Coaching
Performance effectiveness
Fred Fiedler
37. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem
Information System
Reactive Change
Functional Strategy
P Decision (Programmed)
38. A standing plan that communicates guidelines for decisions and action
Performance efficiency
Policy
Satisficing Decision
Business Strategy
39. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share
Leading
Certain Environment
BCG Matrix
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
40. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment
BCG Matrix
Modeling
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Performance effectiveness
41. An invisible barrier limiting the advancement of woman and minorities
Retrenchment Strategy
Decision
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Training
42. The total mechanization of a job.
Functional Chimney Problem
(Growth through)Concentration
Reactive Change
Automation
43. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Controlling
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Procedure
Cross functional team
44. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
Satisficing Decision
Systematic Thinking
Job Enrichment
Crisis
45. A work unit or smaller component within a larger organization
Subsystem
Cross functional team
Strategy
(Growth through) Diversification
46. Ability x Support x Effort
Performance
Prejudice
Need
Modeling
47. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Core Competency
Business Strategy
Importing
Satisfier (factor)
48. An unexpected problem that can lead to disaster if not resolved quickly and appropriately
Ethnocentrism
Unfreezing
Corporate Strategy
Crisis
49. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.
Corporate Strategy
Coaching
Performance efficiency
Virtual Organization
50. Expectancy x Instrumentality x Valence
Unfreezing
Certain Environment
Motivation
Psychological Contract