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Business Leadership
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1. Lacking so much information that it is difficult to assign probabilities to the outcomes of alternatives.
Uncertain Environment
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Heuristics
Hygiene (factor)
2. Approaches problems in a rational and analytical fashion.
Risk Environment
Groupthink
Systematic Thinking
Team Structure
3. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.
Intuitive Thinking
Action Research
Prejudice
Human Skill
4. A plan that commits resources to projects or activities
Budget
nAff
PC
Management Science
5. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
Type A Personality
Importing
nAch
Modeling
6. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
Incremental Change
Learning Organization
Functional Chimney Problem
Competitive Advantage
7. The creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
Heuristics
Performance efficiency
Workforce Diversity
Synergy
8. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Business Strategy
Satisfier (factor)
Performance
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
9. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented
Psychological Contract
CoC (Chain of Command)
Boundaryless Organizations
Fred Fiedler
10. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem
Knowledge Worker
P Decision (Programmed)
CoC (Chain of Command)
Hygiene (factor)
11. An unfulfilled physiological or psychological desire.
Hygiene (factor)
Information System
Top Manager
Need
12. Ability x Support x Effort
Planned Change
Escalating Commitment
Competitive Advantage
Performance
13. The tendancy to consider one's culture as superior to others
Middle Manager
Need
Culture
Ethnocentrism
14. Involves reducing the scale of current operations
Network Structure
Satisfier (factor)
Policy
Retrenchment Strategy
15. Making managerial decisions based on the situation; Management is not a science.
Contingency Thinking
Escalating Commitment
Manager
Type A Personality
16. Brings together members from different functional departments
Certain Environment
Policy
Importing
Cross functional team
17. An unexpected problem that can lead to disaster if not resolved quickly and appropriately
Retrenchment Strategy
Crisis
Fred Fiedler
PC
18. Strategies for simplifying decision-making
Mentoring
Transformational Change
Heuristics
Information System
19. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
nPower
Synergy
Controlling
Intuitive Thinking
20. The requirement to show performance results to a supervisor
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
nPower
Job Enrichment
Accountability
21. A special strength that gives an organization a competitive advantage.
Core Competency
Outsourcing
Performance efficiency
Strategy
22. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.
Psychological Contract
Learning Organization
Modeling
Functional Chimney Problem
23. Physical and Mental exhaustion that can be incapacitating personally and in respect to work.
Fred Fiedler
Strategy
Job Burnout
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
24. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Top Manager
Intuitive Thinking
Action Research
25. An invisible barrier limiting the advancement of woman and minorities
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Functional Strategy
Intellectual Capital
Controlling
26. Found in job content - such as a sense of achievement - recognition - or personal growth.
Satisficing Decision
Human Skill
Automation
Satisfier (factor)
27. The phase during which a situation is prepared for change.
Performance efficiency
Unfreezing
Reactive Change
Automation
28. Responds to events as or after they occur.
Skill
Core Competency
Intellectual Capital
Reactive Change
29. A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities
Human Skill
Lifelong Learning
Groupthink
nPower
30. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
Performance efficiency
Decision
Workforce Diversity
P Decision (Programmed)
31. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.
Intellectual Capital
Action Research
nPower
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
32. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.
Human Skill
Budget
Top Manager
Certain Environment
33. The ability to think analytically and solve complex problems to the benefit of everyone involved.
Coaching
Conceptual Skill
Type A Personality
Motivation
34. A shared set of beliefs - values - and patterns of behavior common to a group of people
Culture
Planned Change
Transformational Change
Incremental Change
35. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
Motivation
Type A Personality
Fred Fiedler
Manager
36. A person who supports and is responsible for the work of others.
Manager
Satisficing Decision
(Growth through)Concentration
Core Competency
37. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem
Hygiene (factor)
Uncertain Environment
Escalating Commitment
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
38. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.
Heuristics
Controlling
Ethics
Boundaryless Organizations
39. The application of operant conditioning to influence human behaviour at work.
Functional Chimney Problem
Budget
Innovation
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
40. A comprehensive plan guiding resource allocation to achieve long-term organizational goals.
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Groupthink
Strategy
Crisis
41. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
Prejudice
Workforce Diversity
Globalization
nPower
42. The process of measuring performance and taking action to ensure desired results
Subsystem
Exporting
PC
Controlling
43. Local products are sold abroad
Team Structure
Mentoring
Exporting
Crisis
44. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.
Ethics
Direction
Contingency Thinking
Job Enrichment
45. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people
nAff
(Growth through) Diversification
Job Performance
Training
46. A shifting network of strategic alliances that are engaged as needed
Certain Environment
Virtual Organization
Job Enrichment
Top Manager
47. The continuation of a course of action even though it is not working
Law of Effect
Escalating Commitment
Information System
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
48. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Accountability
Importing
Culture
Law of Effect
49. Choosing the first satisfactory alternative that comes to attention
Functional Chimney Problem
Virtual Organization
Satisficing Decision
Performance
50. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
Procedure
Job Performance
Automation
Prejudice
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