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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. Expectancy x Instrumentality x Valence
CoC (Chain of Command)
Uncertain Environment
Planning
Motivation
2. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Controlling
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Procedure
Psychological Contract
3. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented
Fred Fiedler
Ethnocentrism
Planned Change
Planning
4. Behaviour followed by pleasant consequences is like to be repeated; behaviour followed by unpleasant work conditions is not.
Transformational Change
Hygiene (factor)
Law of Effect
Management Science
5. The requirement to show performance results to a supervisor
Accountability
Performance
Transformational Change
Job Enrichment
6. The display of negative - irrational attitudes toward woman or minorities.
Retrenchment Strategy
Prejudice
Manager
Performance effectiveness
7. Aligns the organization with anticipated future challenges.
Management Science
Manager
Law of Effect
Planned Change
8. Growing within the same business area
Satisficing Decision
(Growth through)Concentration
Budget
Refreezing
9. The ability to think analytically and solve complex problems to the benefit of everyone involved.
Productivity
Certain Environment
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Conceptual Skill
10. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.
Functional Strategy
Direction
Middle Manager
Innovation
11. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
nPower
Lifelong Learning
Corporate Strategy
Heuristics
12. A lack of communication and coordination across functions.
Strategy
Functional Chimney Problem
Ethics
Type A Personality
13. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.
Action Research
nAff
Risk Environment
Network Structure
14. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
Modeling
Knowledge Worker
Transformational Change
Crisis
15. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.
Coaching
Top Manager
Mentoring
SoC (Span of Control)
16. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones
Importing
Mentoring
Hygiene (factor)
Performance
17. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
Satisficing Decision
Performance
Skill
Lifelong Learning
18. Use IT to collect - organize - and distribute data for use in decision making
Information System
(Growth through) Diversification
Ethnocentrism
Cross functional team
19. The tendancy to consider one's culture as superior to others
Escalating Commitment
nPower
Systematic Thinking
Ethnocentrism
20. Offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.
Certain Environment
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
PC
(Growth through) Diversification
21. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
Subsystem
Globalization
Crisis
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
22. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
Productivity
Globalization
Satisfier (factor)
Performance efficiency
23. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
(Growth through) Diversification
PC
Job Performance
nPower
24. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.
Core Competency
Top Manager
Uncertain Environment
Corporate Strategy
25. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Innovation
PC
Globalization
26. The quantity and quality of work performance - with resource utilization considered.
Productivity
Ethnocentrism
Performance effectiveness
Globalization
27. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
Planning
Information System
(Growth through)Concentration
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
28. A standing plan that communicates guidelines for decisions and action
Conceptual Skill
Groupthink
Performance
Policy
29. Involves identifying and taking action to resolve problems
Job Performance
SoC (Span of Control)
Problem Solving
Systematic Thinking
30. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
Modeling
Crisis
Policy
Team Structure
31. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people
Performance efficiency
nPower
Contingency Thinking
nAff
32. The phase at which change is stabilized.
nAff
Unfreezing
Refreezing
Controlling
33. Uses IT (information technology) to link with networks of outside suppliers and service contractors
Certain Environment
Performance
Skill
Network Structure
34. Found in job content - such as a sense of achievement - recognition - or personal growth.
Motivation
Satisfier (factor)
Conceptual Skill
nPower
35. An unfulfilled physiological or psychological desire.
Action Research
Mentoring
Type A Personality
Need
36. When a business function is contracted to an outside supplier
Job Performance
Heuristics
Outsourcing
Ethics
37. Is by acquiring suppliers and distributors
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Decision
Technical Skill
38. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Business Strategy
P Decision (Programmed)
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
39. Ability x Support x Effort
Performance
Globalization
Law of Effect
Human Skill
40. The process of arousing enthusiasm and directing efforts towards organizational goals.
P Decision (Programmed)
Knowledge Worker
nPower
Leading
41. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action
Cross functional team
Satisficing Decision
Decision
nPower
42. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Human Skill
Learning Organization
Virtual Organization
43. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
Functional Strategy
Intellectual Capital
Job Enrichment
Automation
44. Local products are sold abroad
Law of Effect
Exporting
Incremental Change
Policy
45. A shared set of beliefs - values - and patterns of behavior common to a group of people
Culture
Planning
Satisfier (factor)
Innovation
46. The phase during which a situation is prepared for change.
Performance effectiveness
Workforce Diversity
Organizing
Unfreezing
47. Approaches problems in a flexible and spontaneous fashion.
Intuitive Thinking
Certain Environment
Workforce Diversity
Learning Organization
48. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.
Psychological Contract
Learning Organization
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Crisis
49. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share
Top Manager
Job Burnout
BCG Matrix
Procedure
50. The continuation of a course of action even though it is not working
Escalating Commitment
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Budget
Mentoring