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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. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Incremental Change
Transformational Change
Risk Environment
2. The phase during which a situation is prepared for change.
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Unfreezing
Top Manager
Performance
3. The application of operant conditioning to influence human behaviour at work.
Delegation
Boundaryless Organizations
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Contingency Thinking
4. Results in a major and comprehensive redirection of the organization.
Job Burnout
Coaching
Transformational Change
Globalization
5. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
Lifelong Learning
Human Skill
Performance efficiency
Job Performance
6. The process of assigning tasks - allocating resources - and arranging activities to implement plans.
Modeling
Organizing
Strategy
Controlling
7. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.
Management Science
Team Structure
Transformational Change
Intellectual Capital
8. An unexpected problem that can lead to disaster if not resolved quickly and appropriately
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Reactive Change
Crisis
Conceptual Skill
9. The process of arousing enthusiasm and directing efforts towards organizational goals.
Top Manager
Modeling
Leading
Systematic Thinking
10. Involves identifying and taking action to resolve problems
Problem Solving
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Transformational Change
Technical Skill
11. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
Outsourcing
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Globalization
Technical Skill
12. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
Planning
Unfreezing
Business Strategy
Intuitive Thinking
13. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
Type A Personality
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Corporate Strategy
Globalization
14. Use IT to collect - organize - and distribute data for use in decision making
SoC (Span of Control)
Incremental Change
Strategy
Information System
15. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
Controlling
Job Performance
PC
Problem Solving
16. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
Leading
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
nAch
Performance efficiency
17. The requirement to show performance results to a supervisor
Accountability
Functional Strategy
Business Strategy
Exporting
18. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
SoC (Span of Control)
Team Structure
Functional Strategy
Type A Personality
19. The tendancy to consider one's culture as superior to others
Ethnocentrism
Systematic Thinking
Certain Environment
Type A Personality
20. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
Strategy
Workforce Diversity
Planned Change
Competitive Advantage
21. The process of measuring performance and taking action to ensure desired results
Satisfier (factor)
Culture
Controlling
Crisis
22. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Risk Environment
Leading
Importing
Satisficing Decision
23. An invisible barrier limiting the advancement of woman and minorities
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Performance efficiency
Accountability
24. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action
Decision
nPower
Direction
Unfreezing
25. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem
Boundaryless Organizations
Crisis
Job Enrichment
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
26. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people
Direction
Core Competency
Functional Strategy
nAff
27. A standing plan that communicates guidelines for decisions and action
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Policy
Fred Fiedler
Intellectual Capital
28. Utilizes people - values - and systems to continously change and improve its performance.
Technical Skill
Motivation
Learning Organization
Skill
29. Uses permanent and temporary cross-functional teams to improve lateral relations
CoC (Chain of Command)
Procedure
Team Structure
Performance efficiency
30. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
Procedure
Knowledge Worker
Information System
Virtual Organization
31. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Need
Exporting
Procedure
nPower
32. An unfulfilled physiological or psychological desire.
Ethics
Certain Environment
Need
Management Science
33. A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities
Groupthink
Ethics
Satisfier (factor)
Innovation
34. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.
Psychological Contract
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Manager
Groupthink
35. Approaches problems in a rational and analytical fashion.
Refreezing
Systematic Thinking
Incremental Change
Motivation
36. Involves working at home or other places using computer links to the office.
Unfreezing
Motivation
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Skill
37. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Ethnocentrism
Human Skill
Corporate Strategy
38. Making managerial decisions based on the situation; Management is not a science.
Synergy
Uncertain Environment
Psychological Contract
Contingency Thinking
39. Is by acquiring suppliers and distributors
SoC (Span of Control)
Exporting
Ethnocentrism
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
40. Approaches problems in a flexible and spontaneous fashion.
Intuitive Thinking
Job Burnout
Retrenchment Strategy
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
41. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.
Accountability
Decision
Top Manager
Importing
42. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.
Technical Skill
Retrenchment Strategy
Budget
Outsourcing
43. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
Heuristics
Refreezing
Modeling
Virtual Organization
44. The overall quality of human experiences in the workplace.
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Transformational Change
Performance efficiency
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
45. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem
Procedure
P Decision (Programmed)
Core Competency
Subsystem
46. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment
nAch
Exporting
Knowledge Worker
Performance effectiveness
47. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
Learning Organization
nPower
Retrenchment Strategy
Performance efficiency
48. Brings together members from different functional departments
Information System
Problem Solving
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Cross functional team
49. The ability to think analytically and solve complex problems to the benefit of everyone involved.
SoC (Span of Control)
Performance efficiency
Conceptual Skill
Budget
50. A person who supports and is responsible for the work of others.
Satisficing Decision
Manager
Human Skill
Job Performance