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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.
Retrenchment Strategy
Accountability
Mentoring
Corporate Strategy
2. Involves identifying and taking action to resolve problems
Virtual Organization
Problem Solving
Skill
Network Structure
3. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.
Modeling
Human Skill
Conceptual Skill
Learning Organization
4. Ability x Support x Effort
Planning
Heuristics
Performance
Manager
5. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
Contingency Thinking
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Satisfier (factor)
Job Performance
6. The requirement to show performance results to a supervisor
Groupthink
Accountability
Top Manager
Action Research
7. Responds to events as or after they occur.
Reactive Change
nPower
Refreezing
Prejudice
8. Brings together members from different functional departments
Team Structure
Cross functional team
Leading
Management Science
9. An unexpected problem that can lead to disaster if not resolved quickly and appropriately
Heuristics
Certain Environment
Crisis
Direction
10. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
Conceptual Skill
Leading
Virtual Organization
Performance efficiency
11. An invisible barrier limiting the advancement of woman and minorities
Performance
Mentoring
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
BCG Matrix
12. Expectancy x Instrumentality x Valence
Productivity
Psychological Contract
Motivation
Learning Organization
13. Choosing the first satisfactory alternative that comes to attention
Satisficing Decision
Prejudice
Core Competency
Incremental Change
14. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment
Performance effectiveness
nAch
Cross functional team
Skill
15. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share
Direction
nPower
Conceptual Skill
BCG Matrix
16. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
Psychological Contract
nAch
Culture
Job Performance
17. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Mentoring
Satisfier (factor)
Prejudice
Importing
18. Physical and Mental exhaustion that can be incapacitating personally and in respect to work.
Job Burnout
Job Enrichment
Intuitive Thinking
Outsourcing
19. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.
Job Performance
nAff
Direction
Middle Manager
20. Utilizes people - values - and systems to continously change and improve its performance.
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Learning Organization
Law of Effect
Intuitive Thinking
21. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
Policy
Modeling
Crisis
Job Enrichment
22. A shared set of beliefs - values - and patterns of behavior common to a group of people
Training
Culture
Lifelong Learning
Satisficing Decision
23. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people
Uncertain Environment
nAff
Core Competency
Budget
24. The process of assigning tasks - allocating resources - and arranging activities to implement plans.
Exporting
Risk Environment
Team Structure
Organizing
25. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Contingency Thinking
Learning Organization
Procedure
nAff
26. A special strength that gives an organization a competitive advantage.
Core Competency
Middle Manager
Type A Personality
Decision
27. Sets standards as to what is good or bad or right or wrong in ones conduct.
Ethics
Certain Environment
Human Skill
Intuitive Thinking
28. Provides learning opportunities to acquire and improve job related skills
Exporting
Direction
Training
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
29. The process of taking a new idea and putting it into practice.
Innovation
Lifelong Learning
Performance
Law of Effect
30. A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities
Ethics
Satisficing Decision
Strategy
Groupthink
31. Strategies for simplifying decision-making
Heuristics
Satisficing Decision
Problem Solving
Ethics
32. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Budget
Core Competency
Satisficing Decision
Incremental Change
33. The ability to translate knowledge into action that results in desired performance
Conceptual Skill
Performance effectiveness
Retrenchment Strategy
Skill
34. The number of subordinates directly reporting to a manager
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
SoC (Span of Control)
CoC (Chain of Command)
Network Structure
35. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem
Synergy
Leading
Refreezing
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
36. Results in a major and comprehensive redirection of the organization.
Hygiene (factor)
Transformational Change
Manager
Delegation
37. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Functional Chimney Problem
Intellectual Capital
Performance efficiency
Business Strategy
38. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
Type A Personality
(Growth through) Diversification
Contingency Thinking
Intellectual Capital
39. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.
Automation
Top Manager
CoC (Chain of Command)
Boundaryless Organizations
40. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
Unfreezing
Modeling
Strategy
BCG Matrix
41. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones
Mentoring
Training
Technical Skill
Hygiene (factor)
42. An unfulfilled physiological or psychological desire.
Need
Transformational Change
Cross functional team
Controlling
43. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
Workforce Diversity
Functional Strategy
Performance efficiency
Policy
44. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
Job Burnout
Technical Skill
PC
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
45. The ability to think analytically and solve complex problems to the benefit of everyone involved.
Problem Solving
Conceptual Skill
Intellectual Capital
Reactive Change
46. The process of arousing enthusiasm and directing efforts towards organizational goals.
Innovation
Leading
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Type A Personality
47. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.
Law of Effect
Outsourcing
(Growth through)Concentration
Intellectual Capital
48. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.
Boundaryless Organizations
Hygiene (factor)
Intellectual Capital
Accountability
49. The quantity and quality of work performance - with resource utilization considered.
Competitive Advantage
Boundaryless Organizations
Middle Manager
Productivity
50. A lack of communication and coordination across functions.
Procedure
Budget
Law of Effect
Functional Chimney Problem