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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. Growing within the same business area
Psychological Contract
(Growth through)Concentration
Information System
Modeling
2. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.
Procedure
Risk Environment
Top Manager
BCG Matrix
3. A comprehensive plan guiding resource allocation to achieve long-term organizational goals.
Boundaryless Organizations
Functional Chimney Problem
Automation
Strategy
4. Describes the differences among workers in gender - race - age - ethnic culture - able-bodiness - religious affiliation - and sexual orientation.
Job Enrichment
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Leading
Workforce Diversity
5. A shared set of beliefs - values - and patterns of behavior common to a group of people
Refreezing
Culture
Automation
Systematic Thinking
6. Use IT to collect - organize - and distribute data for use in decision making
Automation
Systematic Thinking
Modeling
Information System
7. Approaches problems in a rational and analytical fashion.
Subsystem
Systematic Thinking
Mentoring
Information System
8. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
Human Skill
Groupthink
Risk Environment
Performance efficiency
9. The requirement to show performance results to a supervisor
Accountability
Organizing
BCG Matrix
Virtual Organization
10. The ability to translate knowledge into action that results in desired performance
Skill
Job Enrichment
Organizing
Information System
11. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
Conceptual Skill
Globalization
Core Competency
Crisis
12. Provides learning opportunities to acquire and improve job related skills
Training
Information System
Importing
Subsystem
13. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.
Globalization
Human Skill
Top Manager
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
14. Involves working at home or other places using computer links to the office.
Conceptual Skill
Psychological Contract
Team Structure
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
15. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.
Performance
Middle Manager
Systematic Thinking
Heuristics
16. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.
Coaching
Prejudice
Technical Skill
Direction
17. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem
Decision
Business Strategy
P Decision (Programmed)
BCG Matrix
18. Brings together members from different functional departments
Cross functional team
Synergy
Reactive Change
Outsourcing
19. The overall quality of human experiences in the workplace.
Need
P Decision (Programmed)
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Reactive Change
20. Expectancy x Instrumentality x Valence
Synergy
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Exporting
Motivation
21. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
Importing
Job Performance
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Job Enrichment
22. Making managerial decisions based on the situation; Management is not a science.
Cross functional team
Culture
Contingency Thinking
Ethnocentrism
23. The quantity and quality of work performance - with resource utilization considered.
Reactive Change
Exporting
Decision
Productivity
24. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
Modeling
Prejudice
(Growth through)Concentration
Organizing
25. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
Retrenchment Strategy
Information System
Top Manager
nPower
26. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
Unfreezing
Ethnocentrism
Strategy
(Growth through) Diversification
27. Lacking so much information that it is difficult to assign probabilities to the outcomes of alternatives.
Decision
Uncertain Environment
Job Enrichment
Core Competency
28. The creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
Manager
Synergy
SoC (Span of Control)
Prejudice
29. Involves identifying and taking action to resolve problems
Direction
Exporting
Problem Solving
Satisficing Decision
30. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
Human Skill
Performance efficiency
Competitive Advantage
Certain Environment
31. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
Training
Satisfier (factor)
PC
Workforce Diversity
32. Results in a major and comprehensive redirection of the organization.
Transformational Change
Direction
Systematic Thinking
Human Skill
33. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones
Mentoring
Need
Innovation
Accountability
34. Links all persons with successively higher levels of authority.
Coaching
Job Performance
Network Structure
CoC (Chain of Command)
35. The continuation of a course of action even though it is not working
(Growth through) Diversification
Knowledge Worker
Hygiene (factor)
Escalating Commitment
36. Local products are sold abroad
Uncertain Environment
Innovation
Cross functional team
Exporting
37. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action
Performance efficiency
Mentoring
Synergy
Decision
38. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people
nAff
Subsystem
Risk Environment
Systematic Thinking
39. Ability x Support x Effort
CoC (Chain of Command)
Performance
Certain Environment
Technical Skill
40. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
Job Performance
Unfreezing
Functional Chimney Problem
Motivation
41. Choosing the first satisfactory alternative that comes to attention
Top Manager
Satisficing Decision
Procedure
nAff
42. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Satisfier (factor)
Accountability
Decision
Incremental Change
43. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented
Mentoring
Performance efficiency
Fred Fiedler
Exporting
44. A standing plan that communicates guidelines for decisions and action
Training
Performance efficiency
Cross functional team
Policy
45. The tendancy to consider one's culture as superior to others
Ethnocentrism
Unfreezing
Network Structure
Top Manager
46. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Incremental Change
Hygiene (factor)
Business Strategy
Coaching
47. WOT
(Growth through)Concentration
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Satisfier (factor)
Budget
48. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share
Ethics
Incremental Change
Top Manager
BCG Matrix
49. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.
Systematic Thinking
Corporate Strategy
Need
(Growth through)Concentration
50. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
Ethnocentrism
Performance efficiency
Motivation
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)