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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. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment
Performance efficiency
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Need
2. Offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.
Need
Fred Fiedler
CoC (Chain of Command)
Certain Environment
3. Making managerial decisions based on the situation; Management is not a science.
Fred Fiedler
Need
Contingency Thinking
Globalization
4. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Importing
Technical Skill
Budget
Subsystem
5. The total mechanization of a job.
Automation
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Middle Manager
Corporate Strategy
6. Is an output measure of task or goal accomplishment
Functional Strategy
SoC (Span of Control)
Performance effectiveness
Action Research
7. Involves an experienced person offering performance advice to a less-experienced person
Synergy
CoC (Chain of Command)
Coaching
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
8. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
Core Competency
Virtual Organization
Need
Competitive Advantage
9. Describes the differences among workers in gender - race - age - ethnic culture - able-bodiness - religious affiliation - and sexual orientation.
Fred Fiedler
Job Burnout
Workforce Diversity
Problem Solving
10. The phase during which a situation is prepared for change.
Planned Change
Unfreezing
PC
Culture
11. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Hygiene (factor)
Information System
Business Strategy
12. A tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities
Workforce Diversity
Groupthink
Learning Organization
Type A Personality
13. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Prejudice
Procedure
Performance effectiveness
Groupthink
14. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.
Hygiene (factor)
Functional Chimney Problem
Action Research
Delegation
15. A shifting network of strategic alliances that are engaged as needed
Globalization
Virtual Organization
CoC (Chain of Command)
Boundaryless Organizations
16. The phase at which change is stabilized.
Exporting
Refreezing
Lifelong Learning
Workforce Diversity
17. Lacking so much information that it is difficult to assign probabilities to the outcomes of alternatives.
Job Performance
Synergy
Uncertain Environment
Crisis
18. Sets standards as to what is good or bad or right or wrong in ones conduct.
Functional Strategy
Prejudice
Ethics
Performance effectiveness
19. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.
nAch
Manager
Exporting
Corporate Strategy
20. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.
Decision
Controlling
Middle Manager
Hygiene (factor)
21. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Incremental Change
Conceptual Skill
Modeling
Retrenchment Strategy
22. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
Functional Strategy
Importing
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Corporate Strategy
23. Ability x Support x Effort
Performance
Prejudice
Workforce Diversity
Exporting
24. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
PC
Risk Environment
Policy
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
25. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people
Procedure
Performance efficiency
nAff
Budget
26. Use IT to collect - organize - and distribute data for use in decision making
Planned Change
Information System
Transformational Change
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
27. A special strength that gives an organization a competitive advantage.
Policy
Performance effectiveness
Core Competency
SoC (Span of Control)
28. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.
Certain Environment
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Psychological Contract
Job Burnout
29. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Management Science
Boundaryless Organizations
Hygiene (factor)
30. The display of negative - irrational attitudes toward woman or minorities.
nAch
Reactive Change
Prejudice
Systematic Thinking
31. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem
Contingency Thinking
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Competitive Advantage
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
32. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones
Planned Change
nAch
Mentoring
Core Competency
33. The continuation of a course of action even though it is not working
Escalating Commitment
PC
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Fred Fiedler
34. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
Cross functional team
Automation
Decision
nPower
35. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.
Need
Controlling
Information System
Top Manager
36. Choosing the first satisfactory alternative that comes to attention
Boundaryless Organizations
P Decision (Programmed)
Satisficing Decision
Coaching
37. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented
Fred Fiedler
Information System
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Training
38. Utilizes people - values - and systems to continously change and improve its performance.
Modeling
Learning Organization
Ethics
Middle Manager
39. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.
Action Research
Job Performance
Boundaryless Organizations
Retrenchment Strategy
40. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.
Human Skill
Risk Environment
Automation
Workforce Diversity
41. Results in a major and comprehensive redirection of the organization.
Transformational Change
BCG Matrix
Unfreezing
Action Research
42. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.
Human Skill
Performance effectiveness
Culture
Type A Personality
43. Approaches problems in a flexible and spontaneous fashion.
Intuitive Thinking
Job Performance
Functional Strategy
Delegation
44. Is by acquiring suppliers and distributors
Corporate Strategy
Top Manager
(Growth through) Vertical Integration
Action Research
45. Local products are sold abroad
Business Strategy
Performance
Subsystem
Exporting
46. The process of taking a new idea and putting it into practice.
Innovation
Uncertain Environment
(Growth through) Diversification
Intellectual Capital
47. Strategies for simplifying decision-making
Exporting
nAch
Heuristics
Psychological Contract
48. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems
Planned Change
Intellectual Capital
nAch
Network Structure
49. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
Network Structure
Job Performance
SoC (Span of Control)
Performance efficiency
50. The application of operant conditioning to influence human behaviour at work.
Training
Skill
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Technical Skill