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Business Leadership
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business-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The ability to translate knowledge into action that results in desired performance
Contingency Thinking
Reactive Change
Skill
Controlling
2. Growing within the same business area
Culture
Job Performance
(Growth through)Concentration
nAff
3. The application of operant conditioning to influence human behaviour at work.
Refreezing
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Planned Change
Leading
4. A plan that commits resources to projects or activities
Productivity
Budget
Delegation
Psychological Contract
5. Provides learning opportunities to acquire and improve job related skills
Budget
nAff
Training
Satisfier (factor)
6. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem
Controlling
Direction
Job Burnout
P Decision (Programmed)
7. Involves reducing the scale of current operations
Intellectual Capital
Retrenchment Strategy
Productivity
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
8. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.
Boundaryless Organizations
Law of Effect
Leading
Action Research
9. The number of subordinates directly reporting to a manager
Psychological Contract
SoC (Span of Control)
Reactive Change
Motivation
10. Involves identifying and taking action to resolve problems
Outsourcing
Incremental Change
Technical Skill
Problem Solving
11. Making managerial decisions based on the situation; Management is not a science.
Job Burnout
nPower
(Growth through) Diversification
Contingency Thinking
12. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.
Intellectual Capital
Information System
Management Science
Organizing
13. The phase at which change is stabilized.
Refreezing
Intuitive Thinking
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
14. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
Refreezing
Performance efficiency
Performance effectiveness
Knowledge Worker
15. The phase during which a situation is prepared for change.
Satisficing Decision
Unfreezing
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Business Strategy
16. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
Systematic Thinking
Lifelong Learning
Action Research
Incremental Change
17. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
Functional Chimney Problem
Automation
nPower
Globalization
18. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones
Mentoring
Performance efficiency
Network Structure
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
19. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.
Outsourcing
nAff
Delegation
Job Enrichment
20. WOT
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Procedure
Knowledge Worker
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
21. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented
Fred Fiedler
Virtual Organization
(Growth through)Concentration
Information System
22. Involves working at home or other places using computer links to the office.
Culture
Cross functional team
Accountability
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
23. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.
Organizing
Retrenchment Strategy
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Hygiene (factor)
24. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
Job Enrichment
Risk Environment
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Middle Manager
25. A comprehensive plan guiding resource allocation to achieve long-term organizational goals.
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Strategy
Workforce Diversity
Ethics
26. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.
Synergy
Functional Chimney Problem
Action Research
Skill
27. The quantity and quality of work performance - with resource utilization considered.
Productivity
Decision
Risk Environment
Leading
28. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
Decision
Middle Manager
Modeling
Innovation
29. An unfulfilled physiological or psychological desire.
Skill
Strategy
Need
CoC (Chain of Command)
30. The display of negative - irrational attitudes toward woman or minorities.
Prejudice
Manager
Action Research
Hygiene (factor)
31. Links all persons with successively higher levels of authority.
Competitive Advantage
Certain Environment
Cross functional team
CoC (Chain of Command)
32. When a business function is contracted to an outside supplier
Technical Skill
Outsourcing
Uncertain Environment
Refreezing
33. A person who supports and is responsible for the work of others.
(Growth through)Concentration
Skill
Manager
Satisficing Decision
34. A shifting network of strategic alliances that are engaged as needed
Certain Environment
(Growth through)Concentration
Virtual Organization
Incremental Change
35. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
Decision
Satisficing Decision
Motivation
Planning
36. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.
Productivity
Direction
BCG Matrix
Boundaryless Organizations
37. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.
Satisficing Decision
Globalization
Technical Skill
(Growth through)Concentration
38. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment
Performance effectiveness
Coaching
Technical Skill
Mentoring
39. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action
Delegation
Retrenchment Strategy
Decision
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
40. Approaches problems in a flexible and spontaneous fashion.
Intuitive Thinking
Accountability
Manager
Ethnocentrism
41. Found in job content - such as a sense of achievement - recognition - or personal growth.
(Growth through) Diversification
Satisfier (factor)
Groupthink
Prejudice
42. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.
Corporate Strategy
Unfreezing
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Motivation
43. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.
Human Skill
Innovation
Job Burnout
Productivity
44. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Heuristics
(Growth through) Diversification
Management Science
45. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
SoC (Span of Control)
nAch
Technical Skill
Performance effectiveness
46. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people
Workforce Diversity
nAff
Virtual Organization
BCG Matrix
47. Brings together members from different functional departments
Job Enrichment
Cross functional team
Functional Strategy
Psychological Contract
48. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
Competitive Advantage
Ethics
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Outsourcing
49. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Groupthink
Direction
Ethics
Importing
50. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
nAff
Information System
Systematic Thinking
Knowledge Worker