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1. The phase at which change is stabilized.
Delegation
Refreezing
P Decision (Programmed)
BCG Matrix
2. The quantity and quality of work performance - with resource utilization considered.
Virtual Organization
Retrenchment Strategy
Top Manager
Productivity
3. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
Satisfier (factor)
Globalization
Job Enrichment
Information System
4. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
Automation
Planning
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Satisfier (factor)
5. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem
PC
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Reactive Change
6. The process of arousing enthusiasm and directing efforts towards organizational goals.
nPower
Leading
Functional Chimney Problem
(Growth through) Diversification
7. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
Globalization
Incremental Change
nAch
Strategy
8. The ability to translate knowledge into action that results in desired performance
Planned Change
Job Burnout
Certain Environment
Skill
9. Sets standards as to what is good or bad or right or wrong in ones conduct.
Controlling
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Ethics
Procedure
10. The number of subordinates directly reporting to a manager
nAch
Performance efficiency
SoC (Span of Control)
(Growth through) Diversification
11. Local products are sold abroad
Risk Environment
Strategy
Motivation
Exporting
12. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
Cross functional team
Functional Strategy
Planned Change
Organizing
13. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.
Conceptual Skill
Boundaryless Organizations
Ethnocentrism
Satisficing Decision
14. A person who supports and is responsible for the work of others.
Prejudice
Leading
Manager
Lifelong Learning
15. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.
nAff
Job Performance
Delegation
Network Structure
16. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.
Direction
Management Science
Learning Organization
Groupthink
17. The requirement to show performance results to a supervisor
Learning Organization
Accountability
Synergy
Incremental Change
18. The phase during which a situation is prepared for change.
(Growth through) Diversification
Psychological Contract
Competitive Advantage
Unfreezing
19. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share
Ethics
Retrenchment Strategy
BCG Matrix
Job Burnout
20. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented
Controlling
Culture
Fred Fiedler
nAch
21. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.
Psychological Contract
PC
Technical Skill
Refreezing
22. The continuation of a course of action even though it is not working
Technical Skill
Escalating Commitment
Delegation
Unfreezing
23. Strategies for simplifying decision-making
Innovation
Heuristics
nAff
Knowledge Worker
24. The creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
Synergy
Budget
Escalating Commitment
Learning Organization
25. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.
Innovation
Skill
Middle Manager
Productivity
26. An unfulfilled physiological or psychological desire.
Corporate Strategy
Need
Business Strategy
Direction
27. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Hygiene (factor)
(Growth through) Diversification
Modeling
28. A standing plan that communicates guidelines for decisions and action
Delegation
Job Enrichment
Law of Effect
Policy
29. Approaches problems in a rational and analytical fashion.
Systematic Thinking
Network Structure
Unfreezing
Information System
30. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Technical Skill
Procedure
Mentoring
31. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
Job Enrichment
Intellectual Capital
Planning
Automation
32. The process of taking a new idea and putting it into practice.
Fred Fiedler
Innovation
Crisis
Workforce Diversity
33. Involves working at home or other places using computer links to the office.
Manager
BCG Matrix
Network Structure
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
34. A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities
nPower
Groupthink
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Training
35. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.
Human Skill
nAff
Uncertain Environment
Direction
36. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
Boundaryless Organizations
Manager
Risk Environment
Psychological Contract
37. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.
Intellectual Capital
Refreezing
Unfreezing
Training
38. The application of operant conditioning to influence human behaviour at work.
Automation
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Manager
nAff
39. Involves an experienced person offering performance advice to a less-experienced person
Coaching
Prejudice
Reactive Change
Satisfier (factor)
40. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Controlling
Productivity
Need
Incremental Change
41. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
Type A Personality
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Synergy
Risk Environment
42. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
Unfreezing
Problem Solving
Motivation
Knowledge Worker
43. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
Mentoring
Planning
(Growth through) Diversification
Corporate Strategy
44. The display of negative - irrational attitudes toward woman or minorities.
Prejudice
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Culture
Manager
45. Brings together members from different functional departments
SoC (Span of Control)
Groupthink
Cross functional team
Top Manager
46. Utilizes people - values - and systems to continously change and improve its performance.
Culture
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Learning Organization
47. Growing within the same business area
Conceptual Skill
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Unfreezing
(Growth through)Concentration
48. A lack of communication and coordination across functions.
SoC (Span of Control)
Skill
Functional Chimney Problem
Strategy
49. A work unit or smaller component within a larger organization
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Information System
Subsystem
Need
50. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
Automation
Synergy
Subsystem
Performance efficiency
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