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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. Uses IT (information technology) to link with networks of outside suppliers and service contractors
Modeling
Business Strategy
Job Enrichment
Network Structure
2. The ability to translate knowledge into action that results in desired performance
Contingency Thinking
Incremental Change
Skill
Job Burnout
3. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.
CoC (Chain of Command)
Technical Skill
Satisfier (factor)
Lifelong Learning
4. A standing plan that communicates guidelines for decisions and action
Corporate Strategy
Policy
Middle Manager
Lifelong Learning
5. WOT
Workforce Diversity
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Planning
(Growth through)Concentration
6. Involves identifying and taking action to resolve problems
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Contingency Thinking
Problem Solving
Motivation
7. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
Workforce Diversity
Certain Environment
nAch
Training
8. Provides learning opportunities to acquire and improve job related skills
Training
BCG Matrix
Prejudice
Strategy
9. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
Systematic Thinking
nAff
nPower
CoC (Chain of Command)
10. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
Technical Skill
Lifelong Learning
Performance efficiency
Hygiene (factor)
11. A special strength that gives an organization a competitive advantage.
CoC (Chain of Command)
Core Competency
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Virtual Organization
12. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
Subsystem
Culture
Modeling
Groupthink
13. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
Cross functional team
Problem Solving
CoC (Chain of Command)
Job Enrichment
14. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
(Growth through) Diversification
Exporting
Accountability
Escalating Commitment
15. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.
Unfreezing
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Direction
Incremental Change
16. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Corporate Strategy
Direction
nAff
17. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented
Knowledge Worker
SoC (Span of Control)
Fred Fiedler
Accountability
18. A work unit or smaller component within a larger organization
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Action Research
Technical Skill
Subsystem
19. Describes the differences among workers in gender - race - age - ethnic culture - able-bodiness - religious affiliation - and sexual orientation.
Job Burnout
Workforce Diversity
SoC (Span of Control)
Ethnocentrism
20. Responds to events as or after they occur.
Action Research
Virtual Organization
Problem Solving
Reactive Change
21. The phase at which change is stabilized.
Performance efficiency
Refreezing
Ethics
Human Skill
22. Uses permanent and temporary cross-functional teams to improve lateral relations
Training
Team Structure
Knowledge Worker
Importing
23. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
Systematic Thinking
Knowledge Worker
Productivity
Management Science
24. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.
Core Competency
Delegation
Ethnocentrism
Groupthink
25. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Information System
Job Burnout
Importing
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
26. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Management Science
Business Strategy
Escalating Commitment
Satisfier (factor)
27. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
Planned Change
Action Research
Type A Personality
Law of Effect
28. Found in job content - such as a sense of achievement - recognition - or personal growth.
Productivity
Automation
Systematic Thinking
Satisfier (factor)
29. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones
Mentoring
Globalization
Job Burnout
Subsystem
30. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.
Boundaryless Organizations
Modeling
Risk Environment
Budget
31. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Incremental Change
Cross functional team
Satisfier (factor)
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
32. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.
Heuristics
P Decision (Programmed)
Functional Chimney Problem
Top Manager
33. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.
Corporate Strategy
Strategy
Intellectual Capital
Retrenchment Strategy
34. A shifting network of strategic alliances that are engaged as needed
BCG Matrix
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Virtual Organization
Importing
35. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Escalating Commitment
Competitive Advantage
Certain Environment
36. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
CoC (Chain of Command)
Automation
Job Performance
Performance efficiency
37. A person who supports and is responsible for the work of others.
Manager
Network Structure
Systematic Thinking
Motivation
38. A comprehensive plan guiding resource allocation to achieve long-term organizational goals.
Job Burnout
Organizing
Refreezing
Strategy
39. Involves reducing the scale of current operations
Automation
Network Structure
Retrenchment Strategy
Outsourcing
40. Growing within the same business area
Strategy
(Growth through)Concentration
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Groupthink
41. Physical and Mental exhaustion that can be incapacitating personally and in respect to work.
Culture
Boundaryless Organizations
Uncertain Environment
Job Burnout
42. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
Globalization
Performance efficiency
Reactive Change
Performance effectiveness
43. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.
Top Manager
Action Research
Performance effectiveness
Cross functional team
44. Local products are sold abroad
Exporting
Decision
Psychological Contract
CoC (Chain of Command)
45. The number of subordinates directly reporting to a manager
Boundaryless Organizations
Synergy
SoC (Span of Control)
Problem Solving
46. Aligns the organization with anticipated future challenges.
Fred Fiedler
Learning Organization
Planned Change
Crisis
47. The process of taking a new idea and putting it into practice.
CoC (Chain of Command)
Innovation
Functional Chimney Problem
Boundaryless Organizations
48. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.
BCG Matrix
Decision
Psychological Contract
Procedure
49. The overall quality of human experiences in the workplace.
Productivity
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
SoC (Span of Control)
Policy
50. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.
Law of Effect
Transformational Change
Middle Manager
Technical Skill