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Business Leadership
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business-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The number of subordinates directly reporting to a manager
Motivation
SoC (Span of Control)
Type A Personality
P Decision (Programmed)
2. Responds to events as or after they occur.
Team Structure
Reactive Change
Globalization
Performance effectiveness
3. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Automation
Globalization
Business Strategy
Delegation
4. A person who supports and is responsible for the work of others.
Subsystem
Network Structure
Intuitive Thinking
Manager
5. Approaches problems in a flexible and spontaneous fashion.
Exporting
Intuitive Thinking
Performance
Controlling
6. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Organizing
Direction
Procedure
Budget
7. The tendancy to consider one's culture as superior to others
Decision
Ethnocentrism
nAch
Training
8. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
Core Competency
Policy
Intellectual Capital
Lifelong Learning
9. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
Job Performance
Heuristics
Uncertain Environment
Intuitive Thinking
10. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.
Importing
Subsystem
Corporate Strategy
Job Performance
11. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
Intuitive Thinking
Subsystem
nAch
Accountability
12. Uses permanent and temporary cross-functional teams to improve lateral relations
SoC (Span of Control)
Team Structure
Functional Chimney Problem
Risk Environment
13. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share
Network Structure
Team Structure
BCG Matrix
Fred Fiedler
14. The process of arousing enthusiasm and directing efforts towards organizational goals.
Performance effectiveness
Strategy
PC
Leading
15. A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities
CoC (Chain of Command)
Coaching
Controlling
Groupthink
16. The ability to think analytically and solve complex problems to the benefit of everyone involved.
P Decision (Programmed)
Conceptual Skill
Organizing
Performance efficiency
17. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones
Planning
Corporate Strategy
Conceptual Skill
Mentoring
18. The continuation of a course of action even though it is not working
Reactive Change
Mentoring
PC
Escalating Commitment
19. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
PC
Globalization
Subsystem
Law of Effect
20. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
Risk Environment
Direction
Core Competency
Cross functional team
21. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.
Coaching
Team Structure
Core Competency
Hygiene (factor)
22. Aligns the organization with anticipated future challenges.
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Decision
Planned Change
Prejudice
23. A special strength that gives an organization a competitive advantage.
Performance
Core Competency
PC
Incremental Change
24. Expectancy x Instrumentality x Valence
Ethics
Motivation
Leading
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
25. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
Network Structure
SoC (Span of Control)
Job Enrichment
Performance effectiveness
26. Sets standards as to what is good or bad or right or wrong in ones conduct.
Competitive Advantage
Ethnocentrism
Certain Environment
Ethics
27. WOT
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Delegation
Mentoring
Planned Change
28. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people
PC
nAff
Culture
Cross functional team
29. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.
Human Skill
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Heuristics
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
30. The requirement to show performance results to a supervisor
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Prejudice
Accountability
Top Manager
31. Describes the differences among workers in gender - race - age - ethnic culture - able-bodiness - religious affiliation - and sexual orientation.
Human Skill
Organizing
Workforce Diversity
Management Science
32. The total mechanization of a job.
Controlling
Automation
Reactive Change
Outsourcing
33. The process of measuring performance and taking action to ensure desired results
PC
Controlling
Planned Change
Job Enrichment
34. Involves identifying and taking action to resolve problems
Problem Solving
Satisficing Decision
Technical Skill
Groupthink
35. A work unit or smaller component within a larger organization
Subsystem
Motivation
Importing
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
36. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment
Network Structure
Human Skill
Performance effectiveness
Controlling
37. The ability to translate knowledge into action that results in desired performance
Skill
Risk Environment
Team Structure
Boundaryless Organizations
38. A standing plan that communicates guidelines for decisions and action
Psychological Contract
Decision
Policy
Prejudice
39. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem
Intuitive Thinking
P Decision (Programmed)
Network Structure
Job Burnout
40. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
SoC (Span of Control)
Certain Environment
Automation
41. When a business function is contracted to an outside supplier
Virtual Organization
Performance
Lifelong Learning
Outsourcing
42. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
CoC (Chain of Command)
Type A Personality
Job Burnout
nPower
43. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Need
Importing
Certain Environment
Skill
44. The quantity and quality of work performance - with resource utilization considered.
Exporting
Productivity
Team Structure
Groupthink
45. A plan that commits resources to projects or activities
Budget
Action Research
Intellectual Capital
Virtual Organization
46. The process of assigning tasks - allocating resources - and arranging activities to implement plans.
Culture
Performance effectiveness
Incremental Change
Organizing
47. Links all persons with successively higher levels of authority.
Workforce Diversity
CoC (Chain of Command)
Certain Environment
Accountability
48. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
Modeling
Information System
Job Performance
Need
49. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
Middle Manager
Performance efficiency
Conceptual Skill
Skill
50. Behaviour followed by pleasant consequences is like to be repeated; behaviour followed by unpleasant work conditions is not.
Information System
Conceptual Skill
Law of Effect
Satisficing Decision