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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. Uses permanent and temporary cross-functional teams to improve lateral relations
Automation
Type A Personality
Team Structure
Motivation
2. Approaches problems in a flexible and spontaneous fashion.
Innovation
Retrenchment Strategy
Intuitive Thinking
Systematic Thinking
3. Expectancy x Instrumentality x Valence
Virtual Organization
Accountability
Fred Fiedler
Motivation
4. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.
Heuristics
Top Manager
Competitive Advantage
Functional Chimney Problem
5. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.
Virtual Organization
Workforce Diversity
Corporate Strategy
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
6. The quantity and quality of work performance - with resource utilization considered.
Technical Skill
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Globalization
Productivity
7. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
Job Burnout
Modeling
Intuitive Thinking
P Decision (Programmed)
8. Is by acquiring suppliers and distributors
Fred Fiedler
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Type A Personality
Law of Effect
9. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
BCG Matrix
SoC (Span of Control)
Risk Environment
(Growth through)Concentration
10. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share
Functional Chimney Problem
Incremental Change
Intellectual Capital
BCG Matrix
11. The process of arousing enthusiasm and directing efforts towards organizational goals.
Leading
Direction
Conceptual Skill
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
12. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.
Boundaryless Organizations
Functional Chimney Problem
Mentoring
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
13. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.
Contingency Thinking
Functional Strategy
nPower
Delegation
14. A comprehensive plan guiding resource allocation to achieve long-term organizational goals.
Escalating Commitment
Team Structure
Strategy
Modeling
15. Aligns the organization with anticipated future challenges.
Planned Change
Strategy
Culture
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
16. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.
PC
Automation
Importing
Hygiene (factor)
17. A standing plan that communicates guidelines for decisions and action
Functional Strategy
Policy
Business Strategy
Skill
18. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.
Ethics
Direction
Planning
Intellectual Capital
19. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.
Middle Manager
Functional Strategy
Network Structure
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
20. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem
Systematic Thinking
Core Competency
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Uncertain Environment
21. Use IT to collect - organize - and distribute data for use in decision making
Information System
Middle Manager
Boundaryless Organizations
Performance efficiency
22. The overall quality of human experiences in the workplace.
Core Competency
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Incremental Change
Importing
23. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.
Performance effectiveness
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Performance
Technical Skill
24. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
PC
Lifelong Learning
Intuitive Thinking
Strategy
25. The phase during which a situation is prepared for change.
Performance efficiency
Modeling
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Unfreezing
26. Results in a major and comprehensive redirection of the organization.
Learning Organization
(Growth through)Concentration
Cross functional team
Transformational Change
27. Involves working at home or other places using computer links to the office.
Corporate Strategy
Policy
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Organizing
28. Behaviour followed by pleasant consequences is like to be repeated; behaviour followed by unpleasant work conditions is not.
Performance
Need
Law of Effect
Direction
29. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Problem Solving
Middle Manager
Mentoring
Procedure
30. The continuation of a course of action even though it is not working
Escalating Commitment
Planned Change
Motivation
Prejudice
31. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
Performance efficiency
Skill
nPower
Hygiene (factor)
32. The total mechanization of a job.
Automation
Management Science
Job Enrichment
Escalating Commitment
33. An invisible barrier limiting the advancement of woman and minorities
Network Structure
Fred Fiedler
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Incremental Change
34. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment
Mentoring
Heuristics
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Performance effectiveness
35. The ability to translate knowledge into action that results in desired performance
Ethnocentrism
Knowledge Worker
Strategy
Skill
36. Lacking so much information that it is difficult to assign probabilities to the outcomes of alternatives.
Top Manager
Decision
Uncertain Environment
Budget
37. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Incremental Change
Accountability
Leading
Importing
38. A work unit or smaller component within a larger organization
Subsystem
SoC (Span of Control)
Outsourcing
nPower
39. Offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.
(Growth through)Concentration
Performance efficiency
Certain Environment
Subsystem
40. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented
Productivity
Satisfier (factor)
Fred Fiedler
Outsourcing
41. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.
Procedure
Action Research
Globalization
Technical Skill
42. WOT
Contingency Thinking
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Job Enrichment
Top Manager
43. The application of operant conditioning to influence human behaviour at work.
Knowledge Worker
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Problem Solving
Organizing
44. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones
(Growth through)Concentration
Satisfier (factor)
Mentoring
Leading
45. The ability to think analytically and solve complex problems to the benefit of everyone involved.
Conceptual Skill
(Growth through) Diversification
Contingency Thinking
Escalating Commitment
46. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
Planning
Delegation
Satisficing Decision
Lifelong Learning
47. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.
Mentoring
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Performance effectiveness
Psychological Contract
48. Links all persons with successively higher levels of authority.
Exporting
Unfreezing
CoC (Chain of Command)
Information System
49. The phase at which change is stabilized.
Certain Environment
Need
Manager
Refreezing
50. The creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
Risk Environment
Certain Environment
Synergy
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