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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 process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Globalization
Direction
Importing
Network Structure
2. An unexpected problem that can lead to disaster if not resolved quickly and appropriately
Crisis
Controlling
Risk Environment
Knowledge Worker
3. Brings together members from different functional departments
BCG Matrix
Globalization
Top Manager
Cross functional team
4. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.
nPower
Management Science
Virtual Organization
Ethnocentrism
5. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
Action Research
Job Enrichment
Fred Fiedler
Modeling
6. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.
Subsystem
Psychological Contract
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Top Manager
7. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Procedure
Uncertain Environment
Knowledge Worker
Systematic Thinking
8. When a business function is contracted to an outside supplier
Decision
Culture
Business Strategy
Outsourcing
9. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
nPower
PC
Mentoring
Top Manager
10. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
Skill
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Job Enrichment
Core Competency
11. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action
Certain Environment
Incremental Change
Decision
Workforce Diversity
12. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Team Structure
Type A Personality
Manager
13. A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities
Planning
Groupthink
Satisficing Decision
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
14. The total mechanization of a job.
Automation
Cross functional team
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Type A Personality
15. Physical and Mental exhaustion that can be incapacitating personally and in respect to work.
Job Burnout
Exporting
Planned Change
Heuristics
16. A lack of communication and coordination across functions.
nAff
Functional Chimney Problem
Performance
Core Competency
17. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented
CoC (Chain of Command)
Modeling
Fred Fiedler
Performance efficiency
18. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Job Performance
nAch
Incremental Change
19. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.
Cross functional team
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Psychological Contract
Globalization
20. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
Strategy
Performance effectiveness
nAch
PC
21. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones
Contingency Thinking
Mentoring
Organizing
Skill
22. Involves reducing the scale of current operations
Team Structure
Retrenchment Strategy
Strategy
Job Enrichment
23. Describes the differences among workers in gender - race - age - ethnic culture - able-bodiness - religious affiliation - and sexual orientation.
Importing
Fred Fiedler
Workforce Diversity
(Growth through)Concentration
24. The ability to translate knowledge into action that results in desired performance
Skill
Planned Change
Delegation
CoC (Chain of Command)
25. The continuation of a course of action even though it is not working
Escalating Commitment
Knowledge Worker
nPower
Transformational Change
26. A work unit or smaller component within a larger organization
Subsystem
Corporate Strategy
Planning
Business Strategy
27. Provides learning opportunities to acquire and improve job related skills
Virtual Organization
Training
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Automation
28. Sets standards as to what is good or bad or right or wrong in ones conduct.
Satisfier (factor)
Job Performance
Ethics
Law of Effect
29. The display of negative - irrational attitudes toward woman or minorities.
Policy
Prejudice
Organizing
(Growth through)Concentration
30. An unfulfilled physiological or psychological desire.
Direction
Policy
Need
Escalating Commitment
31. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
Job Performance
Performance effectiveness
Network Structure
Procedure
32. Aligns the organization with anticipated future challenges.
Planned Change
Performance effectiveness
Job Performance
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
33. Uses permanent and temporary cross-functional teams to improve lateral relations
Team Structure
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
(Growth through) Diversification
34. The creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
Intellectual Capital
Corporate Strategy
Planned Change
Synergy
35. The process of taking a new idea and putting it into practice.
Job Performance
Innovation
Problem Solving
Hygiene (factor)
36. A person who supports and is responsible for the work of others.
Workforce Diversity
Manager
SoC (Span of Control)
Groupthink
37. Involves an experienced person offering performance advice to a less-experienced person
Delegation
(Growth through) Diversification
Skill
Coaching
38. Expectancy x Instrumentality x Valence
Motivation
Performance effectiveness
Coaching
Exporting
39. Choosing the first satisfactory alternative that comes to attention
Satisficing Decision
Prejudice
SoC (Span of Control)
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
40. The process of assigning tasks - allocating resources - and arranging activities to implement plans.
BCG Matrix
Ethics
P Decision (Programmed)
Organizing
41. Responds to events as or after they occur.
Crisis
nAch
Type A Personality
Reactive Change
42. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.
Hygiene (factor)
Delegation
Mentoring
Globalization
43. The process of measuring performance and taking action to ensure desired results
Synergy
Coaching
Productivity
Controlling
44. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.
Globalization
Intuitive Thinking
Boundaryless Organizations
Law of Effect
45. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
Risk Environment
Leading
Procedure
Intellectual Capital
46. Strategies for simplifying decision-making
Functional Strategy
Middle Manager
Systematic Thinking
Heuristics
47. Links all persons with successively higher levels of authority.
CoC (Chain of Command)
(Growth through)Concentration
Certain Environment
Ethnocentrism
48. Growing within the same business area
(Growth through)Concentration
Innovation
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Certain Environment
49. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem
Culture
P Decision (Programmed)
Mentoring
Risk Environment
50. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
Transformational Change
(Growth through) Diversification
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Uncertain Environment