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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. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones
Outsourcing
Automation
Certain Environment
Mentoring
2. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
Incremental Change
Procedure
Functional Strategy
PC
3. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.
Boundaryless Organizations
Lifelong Learning
PC
Human Skill
4. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.
Delegation
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Automation
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
5. An unexpected problem that can lead to disaster if not resolved quickly and appropriately
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Management Science
Crisis
Leading
6. Involves reducing the scale of current operations
Technical Skill
Training
Retrenchment Strategy
nAff
7. Making managerial decisions based on the situation; Management is not a science.
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Law of Effect
Automation
Contingency Thinking
8. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Lifelong Learning
Training
Planning
9. Lacking so much information that it is difficult to assign probabilities to the outcomes of alternatives.
Action Research
Prejudice
Uncertain Environment
Job Performance
10. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.
Functional Chimney Problem
Unfreezing
Intellectual Capital
Manager
11. The phase at which change is stabilized.
Competitive Advantage
Leading
Refreezing
Psychological Contract
12. The phase during which a situation is prepared for change.
Unfreezing
Controlling
Learning Organization
Refreezing
13. The tendancy to consider one's culture as superior to others
Ethnocentrism
Learning Organization
Hygiene (factor)
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
14. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
Decision
Systematic Thinking
Leading
PC
15. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
Satisficing Decision
Contingency Thinking
(Growth through) Diversification
Ethics
16. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
P Decision (Programmed)
Core Competency
Globalization
Synergy
17. The number of subordinates directly reporting to a manager
SoC (Span of Control)
Certain Environment
Middle Manager
Action Research
18. A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities
Satisficing Decision
Policy
Groupthink
Budget
19. Aligns the organization with anticipated future challenges.
Organizing
Fred Fiedler
Intuitive Thinking
Planned Change
20. The continuation of a course of action even though it is not working
Performance efficiency
Escalating Commitment
Ethnocentrism
Cross functional team
21. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
Incremental Change
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Prejudice
Job Performance
22. A shared set of beliefs - values - and patterns of behavior common to a group of people
Problem Solving
nAff
Knowledge Worker
Culture
23. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem
Controlling
Network Structure
SoC (Span of Control)
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
24. The process of measuring performance and taking action to ensure desired results
Globalization
Controlling
Decision
Satisficing Decision
25. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Incremental Change
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Synergy
Fred Fiedler
26. The process of assigning tasks - allocating resources - and arranging activities to implement plans.
Network Structure
Organizing
Psychological Contract
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
27. The total mechanization of a job.
Innovation
Intellectual Capital
Automation
Type A Personality
28. Use IT to collect - organize - and distribute data for use in decision making
Functional Strategy
Leading
Retrenchment Strategy
Information System
29. Provides learning opportunities to acquire and improve job related skills
nAff
Corporate Strategy
Training
Performance efficiency
30. A special strength that gives an organization a competitive advantage.
Functional Strategy
Core Competency
Retrenchment Strategy
Intellectual Capital
31. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.
Planning
Delegation
Action Research
Systematic Thinking
32. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
Procedure
Satisfier (factor)
Organizing
nAch
33. Is by acquiring suppliers and distributors
Retrenchment Strategy
Psychological Contract
(Growth through) Diversification
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
34. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
Technical Skill
Job Enrichment
Prejudice
Cross functional team
35. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
Subsystem
Accountability
Knowledge Worker
Information System
36. Found in job content - such as a sense of achievement - recognition - or personal growth.
Systematic Thinking
Satisfier (factor)
Core Competency
Human Skill
37. Involves an experienced person offering performance advice to a less-experienced person
Management Science
Core Competency
BCG Matrix
Coaching
38. Behaviour followed by pleasant consequences is like to be repeated; behaviour followed by unpleasant work conditions is not.
Policy
Law of Effect
Systematic Thinking
Skill
39. Approaches problems in a rational and analytical fashion.
nPower
Systematic Thinking
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Workforce Diversity
40. Responds to events as or after they occur.
Decision
Reactive Change
BCG Matrix
Type A Personality
41. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Job Enrichment
Culture
Business Strategy
Prejudice
42. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.
Technical Skill
Network Structure
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Innovation
43. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Management Science
Transformational Change
Type A Personality
Importing
44. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
Lifelong Learning
Accountability
Core Competency
Learning Organization
45. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.
Mentoring
Top Manager
Heuristics
Boundaryless Organizations
46. The requirement to show performance results to a supervisor
nAch
Ethnocentrism
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Accountability
47. Brings together members from different functional departments
Productivity
Boundaryless Organizations
Cross functional team
Law of Effect
48. Utilizes people - values - and systems to continously change and improve its performance.
Learning Organization
Synergy
Crisis
Delegation
49. The ability to think analytically and solve complex problems to the benefit of everyone involved.
nAff
Job Burnout
Transformational Change
Conceptual Skill
50. Links all persons with successively higher levels of authority.
Type A Personality
Groupthink
CoC (Chain of Command)
Productivity