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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. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment
Performance effectiveness
Need
Manager
Coaching
2. The ability to translate knowledge into action that results in desired performance
Globalization
(Growth through) Diversification
Type A Personality
Skill
3. Local products are sold abroad
Exporting
Globalization
Intuitive Thinking
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
4. Provides learning opportunities to acquire and improve job related skills
Training
Performance
Procedure
Competitive Advantage
5. A plan that commits resources to projects or activities
Budget
Systematic Thinking
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
6. The total mechanization of a job.
Uncertain Environment
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Automation
Action Research
7. The process of measuring performance and taking action to ensure desired results
Boundaryless Organizations
Network Structure
Controlling
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
8. The continuation of a course of action even though it is not working
Escalating Commitment
Risk Environment
nAch
Need
9. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
Risk Environment
Conceptual Skill
Unfreezing
Skill
10. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Certain Environment
Incremental Change
Performance
Escalating Commitment
11. A special strength that gives an organization a competitive advantage.
Core Competency
Fred Fiedler
Training
Workforce Diversity
12. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Modeling
Importing
Automation
Organizing
13. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
Lifelong Learning
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Learning Organization
PC
14. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.
Psychological Contract
Strategy
Satisficing Decision
Middle Manager
15. Involves an experienced person offering performance advice to a less-experienced person
Automation
Coaching
Lifelong Learning
Manager
16. Responds to events as or after they occur.
Training
Competitive Advantage
Retrenchment Strategy
Reactive Change
17. Uses permanent and temporary cross-functional teams to improve lateral relations
Cross functional team
Contingency Thinking
Team Structure
PC
18. Approaches problems in a flexible and spontaneous fashion.
Synergy
Intuitive Thinking
Contingency Thinking
Law of Effect
19. The display of negative - irrational attitudes toward woman or minorities.
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Prejudice
Heuristics
Importing
20. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.
Performance
Risk Environment
Controlling
Direction
21. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.
Groupthink
Top Manager
Systematic Thinking
Crisis
22. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
Planning
Learning Organization
Ethnocentrism
Satisfier (factor)
23. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
Type A Personality
Heuristics
Escalating Commitment
Knowledge Worker
24. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.
Cross functional team
Delegation
Retrenchment Strategy
Management Science
25. A lack of communication and coordination across functions.
Functional Chimney Problem
(Growth through)Concentration
P Decision (Programmed)
Business Strategy
26. The process of arousing enthusiasm and directing efforts towards organizational goals.
Workforce Diversity
Network Structure
Leading
Unfreezing
27. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action
Core Competency
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Decision
Refreezing
28. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
Workforce Diversity
Competitive Advantage
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
(Growth through) Diversification
29. WOT
Controlling
Boundaryless Organizations
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Unfreezing
30. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
Boundaryless Organizations
Conceptual Skill
Modeling
Skill
31. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
Coaching
Motivation
Satisfier (factor)
Competitive Advantage
32. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Virtual Organization
Business Strategy
Intuitive Thinking
Importing
33. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.
Psychological Contract
Intellectual Capital
Retrenchment Strategy
Action Research
34. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.
Corporate Strategy
PC
Synergy
Strategy
35. Involves working at home or other places using computer links to the office.
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Corporate Strategy
Decision
Performance effectiveness
36. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
Innovation
nAch
Policy
Psychological Contract
37. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
Satisficing Decision
Motivation
Performance efficiency
Culture
38. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
Performance effectiveness
Cross functional team
PC
Planned Change
39. Ability x Support x Effort
Coaching
SoC (Span of Control)
Modeling
Performance
40. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem
Competitive Advantage
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Planning
Training
41. The number of subordinates directly reporting to a manager
Competitive Advantage
Boundaryless Organizations
Retrenchment Strategy
SoC (Span of Control)
42. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Productivity
Procedure
nAch
Core Competency
43. A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities
Organizing
Groupthink
Workforce Diversity
Cross functional team
44. Approaches problems in a rational and analytical fashion.
Performance
Job Performance
Systematic Thinking
Information System
45. Sets standards as to what is good or bad or right or wrong in ones conduct.
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Outsourcing
Ethics
Refreezing
46. An unfulfilled physiological or psychological desire.
CoC (Chain of Command)
Strategy
Synergy
Need
47. Choosing the first satisfactory alternative that comes to attention
Direction
Satisficing Decision
Importing
Training
48. A comprehensive plan guiding resource allocation to achieve long-term organizational goals.
Prejudice
CoC (Chain of Command)
Strategy
Fred Fiedler
49. A work unit or smaller component within a larger organization
Delegation
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
BCG Matrix
Subsystem
50. Growing within the same business area
(Growth through)Concentration
(Growth through) Diversification
Exporting
Prejudice