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Business Leadership

Subject : 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 process of measuring performance and taking action to ensure desired results






2. Local products are sold abroad






3. Uses permanent and temporary cross-functional teams to improve lateral relations






4. The creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.






5. The overall quality of human experiences in the workplace.






6. Strategies for simplifying decision-making






7. The process of taking a new idea and putting it into practice.






8. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented






9. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action






10. Offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.






11. Ability x Support x Effort






12. A work unit or smaller component within a larger organization






13. Growing within the same business area






14. Expectancy x Instrumentality x Valence






15. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment






16. The process of arousing enthusiasm and directing efforts towards organizational goals.






17. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.






18. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.






19. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.






20. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.






21. Involves reducing the scale of current operations






22. A shared set of beliefs - values - and patterns of behavior common to a group of people






23. Utilizes people - values - and systems to continously change and improve its performance.






24. Links all persons with successively higher levels of authority.






25. The process of assigning tasks - allocating resources - and arranging activities to implement plans.






26. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.






27. Choosing the first satisfactory alternative that comes to attention






28. Provides learning opportunities to acquire and improve job related skills






29. Responds to events as or after they occur.






30. Behaviour followed by pleasant consequences is like to be repeated; behaviour followed by unpleasant work conditions is not.






31. The total mechanization of a job.






32. Sets standards as to what is good or bad or right or wrong in ones conduct.






33. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale






34. A shifting network of strategic alliances that are engaged as needed






35. Use IT to collect - organize - and distribute data for use in decision making






36. A comprehensive plan guiding resource allocation to achieve long-term organizational goals.






37. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.






38. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.






39. Involves an experienced person offering performance advice to a less-experienced person






40. Uses IT (information technology) to link with networks of outside suppliers and service contractors






41. The phase at which change is stabilized.






42. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.






43. The continuation of a course of action even though it is not working






44. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets






45. Approaches problems in a rational and analytical fashion.






46. The ability to think analytically and solve complex problems to the benefit of everyone involved.






47. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.






48. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people






49. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.






50. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.