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Business Leadership

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Strategies for simplifying decision-making






2. Expectancy x Instrumentality x Valence






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






4. Brings together members from different functional departments






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






6. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.






7. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities






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






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






10. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment






11. A plan that commits resources to projects or activities






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






13. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.






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






15. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.






16. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people






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






18. Responds to events as or after they occur.






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






20. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.






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






22. The tendancy to consider one's culture as superior to others






23. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.






24. Approaches problems in a rational and analytical fashion.






25. The phase during which a situation is prepared for change.






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






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






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






29. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others






30. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem






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






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






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






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






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






36. Growing within the same business area






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






38. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share






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






40. A lack of communication and coordination across functions.






41. Local products are sold abroad






42. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations






43. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.






44. Involves reducing the scale of current operations






45. Lacking so much information that it is difficult to assign probabilities to the outcomes of alternatives.






46. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.






47. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale






48. A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities






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






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