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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 collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.
Action Research
Intellectual Capital
Need
Job Enrichment
2. The overall quality of human experiences in the workplace.
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Learning Organization
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
3. Lacking so much information that it is difficult to assign probabilities to the outcomes of alternatives.
Technical Skill
Uncertain Environment
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Intellectual Capital
4. Involves working at home or other places using computer links to the office.
Intellectual Capital
Network Structure
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
P Decision (Programmed)
5. Involves reducing the scale of current operations
Strategy
Retrenchment Strategy
Corporate Strategy
Uncertain Environment
6. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.
Decision
Culture
Heuristics
Hygiene (factor)
7. The phase at which change is stabilized.
BCG Matrix
Importing
Refreezing
Groupthink
8. The process of assigning tasks - allocating resources - and arranging activities to implement plans.
Subsystem
Organizing
Satisfier (factor)
Uncertain Environment
9. A plan that commits resources to projects or activities
Coaching
Transformational Change
Budget
Leading
10. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.
Corporate Strategy
Direction
Planning
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
11. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.
Strategy
Importing
Delegation
Job Enrichment
12. Utilizes people - values - and systems to continously change and improve its performance.
Direction
Certain Environment
Systematic Thinking
Learning Organization
13. Choosing the first satisfactory alternative that comes to attention
Planning
Problem Solving
Knowledge Worker
Satisficing Decision
14. Sets standards as to what is good or bad or right or wrong in ones conduct.
Middle Manager
Importing
Culture
Ethics
15. The tendancy to consider one's culture as superior to others
Certain Environment
Organizing
Job Performance
Ethnocentrism
16. Aligns the organization with anticipated future challenges.
Planned Change
Policy
Transformational Change
Risk Environment
17. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
Certain Environment
Productivity
Job Performance
Risk Environment
18. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Knowledge Worker
Coaching
Direction
19. Growing within the same business area
Risk Environment
Organizing
(Growth through)Concentration
Competitive Advantage
20. Uses permanent and temporary cross-functional teams to improve lateral relations
Heuristics
Team Structure
Leading
Decision
21. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
(Growth through) Diversification
Coaching
Hygiene (factor)
Knowledge Worker
22. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas
Skill
Problem Solving
(Growth through) Diversification
Outsourcing
23. Use IT to collect - organize - and distribute data for use in decision making
Information System
Middle Manager
Performance
Management Science
24. Brings together members from different functional departments
Cross functional team
Performance effectiveness
Policy
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
25. The display of negative - irrational attitudes toward woman or minorities.
Competitive Advantage
Top Manager
Middle Manager
Prejudice
26. The total mechanization of a job.
Strategy
Job Enrichment
Automation
(Growth through)Concentration
27. Expectancy x Instrumentality x Valence
Virtual Organization
Motivation
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Law of Effect
28. Is by acquiring suppliers and distributors
(Growth through) Diversification
Controlling
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Prejudice
29. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
Globalization
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Business Strategy
nAff
30. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Lifelong Learning
Incremental Change
P Decision (Programmed)
Refreezing
31. Ability x Support x Effort
Intuitive Thinking
Unfreezing
CoC (Chain of Command)
Performance
32. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.
Middle Manager
Risk Environment
Psychological Contract
nAff
33. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.
Network Structure
Performance effectiveness
Satisficing Decision
Action Research
34. Results in a major and comprehensive redirection of the organization.
Core Competency
Transformational Change
Direction
Heuristics
35. Local products are sold abroad
Exporting
Hygiene (factor)
Decision
Knowledge Worker
36. Found in job content - such as a sense of achievement - recognition - or personal growth.
CoC (Chain of Command)
Satisfier (factor)
Systematic Thinking
Problem Solving
37. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people
Importing
nAff
Ethnocentrism
P Decision (Programmed)
38. A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities
Ethnocentrism
(Growth through)Concentration
Decision
Groupthink
39. Provides learning opportunities to acquire and improve job related skills
Training
Motivation
Crisis
nPower
40. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
Conceptual Skill
nPower
Modeling
Motivation
41. The phase during which a situation is prepared for change.
Top Manager
Unfreezing
Performance efficiency
Uncertain Environment
42. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
Refreezing
Law of Effect
Delegation
Planning
43. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones
Mentoring
Lifelong Learning
nAff
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
44. An unexpected problem that can lead to disaster if not resolved quickly and appropriately
Globalization
Middle Manager
Crisis
Subsystem
45. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment
Action Research
Exporting
Hygiene (factor)
Performance effectiveness
46. Involves identifying and taking action to resolve problems
Network Structure
Problem Solving
Delegation
Contingency Thinking
47. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
Crisis
CoC (Chain of Command)
Boundaryless Organizations
Type A Personality
48. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.
Accountability
Human Skill
Groupthink
Modeling
49. The ability to translate knowledge into action that results in desired performance
Skill
Business Strategy
Systematic Thinking
Management Science
50. A standing plan that communicates guidelines for decisions and action
Prejudice
BCG Matrix
Policy
Retrenchment Strategy