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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. The overall quality of human experiences in the workplace.
Systematic Thinking
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Fred Fiedler
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
2. Uses IT (information technology) to link with networks of outside suppliers and service contractors
Action Research
Network Structure
SoC (Span of Control)
Psychological Contract
3. Behaviour followed by pleasant consequences is like to be repeated; behaviour followed by unpleasant work conditions is not.
Human Skill
Law of Effect
Reactive Change
Team Structure
4. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
SoC (Span of Control)
Globalization
Reactive Change
Unfreezing
5. The phase during which a situation is prepared for change.
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Psychological Contract
Unfreezing
Transformational Change
6. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Risk Environment
Performance efficiency
(Growth through)Concentration
Procedure
7. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment
Functional Chimney Problem
Ethnocentrism
Type A Personality
Performance effectiveness
8. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share
Law of Effect
BCG Matrix
Heuristics
Contingency Thinking
9. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
Knowledge Worker
Budget
Modeling
Boundaryless Organizations
10. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
Organizing
PC
Learning Organization
Escalating Commitment
11. WOT
Prejudice
Lifelong Learning
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Functional Chimney Problem
12. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people
Network Structure
nAff
Human Skill
Knowledge Worker
13. Uses permanent and temporary cross-functional teams to improve lateral relations
Risk Environment
Team Structure
Problem Solving
Business Strategy
14. A work unit or smaller component within a larger organization
Satisficing Decision
Intellectual Capital
Subsystem
Certain Environment
15. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
nAch
Delegation
Skill
Competitive Advantage
16. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
Functional Strategy
Network Structure
Escalating Commitment
Risk Environment
17. Choosing the first satisfactory alternative that comes to attention
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Automation
Transformational Change
Satisficing Decision
18. Strategies for simplifying decision-making
Management Science
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Heuristics
Organizing
19. A shared set of beliefs - values - and patterns of behavior common to a group of people
Satisficing Decision
nPower
Human Skill
Culture
20. Physical and Mental exhaustion that can be incapacitating personally and in respect to work.
Job Burnout
(Growth through)Concentration
Contingency Thinking
Middle Manager
21. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.
Ethnocentrism
Boundaryless Organizations
Heuristics
Contingency Thinking
22. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem
(Growth through) Diversification
Team Structure
Functional Chimney Problem
P Decision (Programmed)
23. Involves working at home or other places using computer links to the office.
Conceptual Skill
Productivity
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Exporting
24. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
Performance
Fred Fiedler
Satisficing Decision
(Growth through) Diversification
25. Involves identifying and taking action to resolve problems
Problem Solving
Innovation
Exporting
Refreezing
26. A special strength that gives an organization a competitive advantage.
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Core Competency
Incremental Change
Training
27. Aligns the organization with anticipated future challenges.
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Action Research
Planned Change
Decision
28. Responds to events as or after they occur.
Controlling
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Reactive Change
29. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
nPower
Intuitive Thinking
Risk Environment
30. An invisible barrier limiting the advancement of woman and minorities
Planned Change
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Heuristics
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
31. A shifting network of strategic alliances that are engaged as needed
Exporting
nPower
Virtual Organization
Information System
32. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Performance
Heuristics
Decision
33. Sets standards as to what is good or bad or right or wrong in ones conduct.
Middle Manager
PC
Ethics
Psychological Contract
34. Expectancy x Instrumentality x Valence
Controlling
Transformational Change
Incremental Change
Motivation
35. A lack of communication and coordination across functions.
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Law of Effect
Mentoring
Functional Chimney Problem
36. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.
Intellectual Capital
Skill
Functional Strategy
Job Performance
37. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Transformational Change
Coaching
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Business Strategy
38. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
Planned Change
Type A Personality
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Functional Strategy
39. The process of arousing enthusiasm and directing efforts towards organizational goals.
Job Burnout
Satisficing Decision
Certain Environment
Leading
40. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
Conceptual Skill
Type A Personality
Reactive Change
Top Manager
41. Lacking so much information that it is difficult to assign probabilities to the outcomes of alternatives.
Uncertain Environment
P Decision (Programmed)
Management Science
Escalating Commitment
42. Ability x Support x Effort
Workforce Diversity
Performance
Coaching
Training
43. Involves an experienced person offering performance advice to a less-experienced person
Coaching
Boundaryless Organizations
BCG Matrix
Unfreezing
44. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
Ethnocentrism
nAch
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Controlling
45. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.
Action Research
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Reactive Change
Delegation
46. Links all persons with successively higher levels of authority.
CoC (Chain of Command)
Strategy
Workforce Diversity
Subsystem
47. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.
Intuitive Thinking
Groupthink
Corporate Strategy
Technical Skill
48. The ability to translate knowledge into action that results in desired performance
Learning Organization
Productivity
Skill
Mentoring
49. The tendancy to consider one's culture as superior to others
Synergy
Corporate Strategy
Controlling
Ethnocentrism
50. Involves reducing the scale of current operations
Middle Manager
Decision
Retrenchment Strategy
PC