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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. Links all persons with successively higher levels of authority.
Certain Environment
Competitive Advantage
Retrenchment Strategy
CoC (Chain of Command)
2. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.
Top Manager
Learning Organization
Technical Skill
Ethnocentrism
3. Describes the differences among workers in gender - race - age - ethnic culture - able-bodiness - religious affiliation - and sexual orientation.
Accountability
Ethnocentrism
Workforce Diversity
Technical Skill
4. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
nPower
Fred Fiedler
Performance effectiveness
Mentoring
5. Sets standards as to what is good or bad or right or wrong in ones conduct.
Problem Solving
Ethics
Accountability
Cross functional team
6. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.
Direction
Crisis
Ethnocentrism
Motivation
7. Provides learning opportunities to acquire and improve job related skills
Culture
Training
Core Competency
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
8. The process of taking a new idea and putting it into practice.
Heuristics
Innovation
Systematic Thinking
Functional Chimney Problem
9. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.
Crisis
Performance effectiveness
Motivation
Top Manager
10. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
Mentoring
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
(Growth through) Diversification
Accountability
11. Is by acquiring suppliers and distributors
Risk Environment
Retrenchment Strategy
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Human Skill
12. The total mechanization of a job.
Certain Environment
Automation
Psychological Contract
Training
13. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
Job Performance
Information System
Job Burnout
BCG Matrix
14. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
Problem Solving
Type A Personality
Intuitive Thinking
Culture
15. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share
nPower
BCG Matrix
Satisficing Decision
Top Manager
16. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented
Information System
Fred Fiedler
Core Competency
Controlling
17. A shared set of beliefs - values - and patterns of behavior common to a group of people
Culture
(Growth through)Concentration
Incremental Change
Mentoring
18. Brings together members from different functional departments
Hygiene (factor)
Performance effectiveness
Cross functional team
Satisfier (factor)
19. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action
Fred Fiedler
Decision
Contingency Thinking
Corporate Strategy
20. Strategies for simplifying decision-making
Heuristics
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Importing
Budget
21. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people
Team Structure
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
nAff
nAch
22. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Performance
Policy
Business Strategy
Human Skill
23. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Learning Organization
Prejudice
CoC (Chain of Command)
Procedure
24. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment
Manager
Strategy
Performance effectiveness
Type A Personality
25. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
Planned Change
Modeling
Escalating Commitment
Action Research
26. Local products are sold abroad
Exporting
Job Burnout
Organizing
Conceptual Skill
27. Approaches problems in a rational and analytical fashion.
Hygiene (factor)
Systematic Thinking
Management Science
Outsourcing
28. The continuation of a course of action even though it is not working
Escalating Commitment
Risk Environment
Action Research
Groupthink
29. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Importing
Lifelong Learning
Skill
P Decision (Programmed)
30. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
Job Burnout
Team Structure
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Lifelong Learning
31. The phase at which change is stabilized.
Type A Personality
Refreezing
Satisfier (factor)
Business Strategy
32. Aligns the organization with anticipated future challenges.
Budget
Heuristics
Knowledge Worker
Planned Change
33. Approaches problems in a flexible and spontaneous fashion.
Systematic Thinking
Delegation
Risk Environment
Intuitive Thinking
34. An invisible barrier limiting the advancement of woman and minorities
Training
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Psychological Contract
Direction
35. Choosing the first satisfactory alternative that comes to attention
Hygiene (factor)
(Growth through) Diversification
Satisficing Decision
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
36. Making managerial decisions based on the situation; Management is not a science.
Reactive Change
Planning
Contingency Thinking
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
37. WOT
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Top Manager
Skill
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
38. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem
Performance efficiency
Performance effectiveness
Satisficing Decision
P Decision (Programmed)
39. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.
Intellectual Capital
Crisis
Management Science
Network Structure
40. Involves reducing the scale of current operations
Escalating Commitment
Ethics
Retrenchment Strategy
Incremental Change
41. Involves an experienced person offering performance advice to a less-experienced person
Middle Manager
Workforce Diversity
Coaching
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
42. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
Risk Environment
Performance efficiency
Procedure
Refreezing
43. Uses IT (information technology) to link with networks of outside suppliers and service contractors
Ethnocentrism
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Network Structure
Crisis
44. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Unfreezing
Functional Chimney Problem
Delegation
45. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
Core Competency
Functional Strategy
Coaching
Unfreezing
46. The ability to think analytically and solve complex problems to the benefit of everyone involved.
Conceptual Skill
Intellectual Capital
PC
Groupthink
47. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.
Psychological Contract
SoC (Span of Control)
Functional Strategy
Virtual Organization
48. The quantity and quality of work performance - with resource utilization considered.
Planning
Productivity
Synergy
Coaching
49. An unexpected problem that can lead to disaster if not resolved quickly and appropriately
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Crisis
Refreezing
Exporting
50. A work unit or smaller component within a larger organization
Subsystem
Contingency Thinking
Coaching
Human Skill