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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 phase at which change is stabilized.
Refreezing
Intellectual Capital
Satisfier (factor)
P Decision (Programmed)
2. A standing plan that communicates guidelines for decisions and action
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Planning
Ethics
Policy
3. Approaches problems in a flexible and spontaneous fashion.
Performance
Intuitive Thinking
Motivation
Management Science
4. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
Hygiene (factor)
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
nAch
Coaching
5. A comprehensive plan guiding resource allocation to achieve long-term organizational goals.
SoC (Span of Control)
Strategy
Planning
Technical Skill
6. Lacking so much information that it is difficult to assign probabilities to the outcomes of alternatives.
Groupthink
Performance efficiency
Type A Personality
Uncertain Environment
7. Use IT to collect - organize - and distribute data for use in decision making
(Growth through)Concentration
Information System
Unfreezing
Satisficing Decision
8. The phase during which a situation is prepared for change.
nPower
Unfreezing
Planned Change
Systematic Thinking
9. The continuation of a course of action even though it is not working
Job Performance
Escalating Commitment
Problem Solving
Top Manager
10. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
Delegation
Skill
Mentoring
Planning
11. An unexpected problem that can lead to disaster if not resolved quickly and appropriately
Outsourcing
Crisis
Modeling
Virtual Organization
12. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.
Strategy
BCG Matrix
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Intellectual Capital
13. A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities
Virtual Organization
Performance effectiveness
Subsystem
Groupthink
14. A person who supports and is responsible for the work of others.
Coaching
Satisfier (factor)
Controlling
Manager
15. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Core Competency
Globalization
Business Strategy
Automation
16. Choosing the first satisfactory alternative that comes to attention
Policy
Importing
Satisficing Decision
Human Skill
17. Is by acquiring suppliers and distributors
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Risk Environment
P Decision (Programmed)
nAff
18. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.
Automation
Organizing
Delegation
Middle Manager
19. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Functional Chimney Problem
(Growth through) Diversification
Functional Strategy
20. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
Performance effectiveness
nPower
Subsystem
Incremental Change
21. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.
Middle Manager
Retrenchment Strategy
Delegation
Intellectual Capital
22. The application of operant conditioning to influence human behaviour at work.
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Transformational Change
Uncertain Environment
Ethics
23. A lack of communication and coordination across functions.
CoC (Chain of Command)
Need
Controlling
Functional Chimney Problem
24. Links all persons with successively higher levels of authority.
nAff
Incremental Change
CoC (Chain of Command)
Psychological Contract
25. Strategies for simplifying decision-making
Human Skill
Productivity
Boundaryless Organizations
Heuristics
26. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
Knowledge Worker
Team Structure
(Growth through)Concentration
Accountability
27. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
Decision
PC
CoC (Chain of Command)
Intellectual Capital
28. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.
Performance effectiveness
Job Enrichment
Human Skill
Technical Skill
29. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
Job Performance
Productivity
Unfreezing
Ethics
30. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action
Organizing
Procedure
Decision
Prejudice
31. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Problem Solving
Heuristics
Importing
Ethnocentrism
32. The overall quality of human experiences in the workplace.
Workforce Diversity
Reactive Change
(Growth through)Concentration
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
33. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones
Mentoring
Ethnocentrism
Job Performance
Contingency Thinking
34. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.
Top Manager
Corporate Strategy
Core Competency
Systematic Thinking
35. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Policy
(Growth through) Diversification
Procedure
Systematic Thinking
36. The creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
Synergy
Skill
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Groupthink
37. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
Modeling
Procedure
Uncertain Environment
Accountability
38. Growing within the same business area
Need
Cross functional team
(Growth through)Concentration
Heuristics
39. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.
Technical Skill
Job Burnout
Exporting
Direction
40. The display of negative - irrational attitudes toward woman or minorities.
Prejudice
Systematic Thinking
Contingency Thinking
Transformational Change
41. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.
Prejudice
Hygiene (factor)
Law of Effect
Boundaryless Organizations
42. Approaches problems in a rational and analytical fashion.
Systematic Thinking
Leading
Importing
Modeling
43. The total mechanization of a job.
Lifelong Learning
Job Performance
Automation
Strategy
44. The process of measuring performance and taking action to ensure desired results
Ethnocentrism
Controlling
CoC (Chain of Command)
Escalating Commitment
45. The ability to translate knowledge into action that results in desired performance
Contingency Thinking
Skill
Job Performance
Innovation
46. Making managerial decisions based on the situation; Management is not a science.
Information System
Functional Chimney Problem
Contingency Thinking
Coaching
47. Brings together members from different functional departments
Boundaryless Organizations
Coaching
Cross functional team
Uncertain Environment
48. WOT
Intellectual Capital
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Workforce Diversity
nAff
49. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
Middle Manager
Planning
(Growth through) Diversification
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
50. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
Groupthink
Crisis
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Job Enrichment