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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. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action
SoC (Span of Control)
Subsystem
Decision
Productivity
2. The quantity and quality of task accomplishment by an individual or group.
Accountability
Job Performance
Modeling
Leading
3. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Job Performance
Procedure
Core Competency
Organizing
4. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones
Mentoring
Procedure
Skill
Reactive Change
5. A plan that commits resources to projects or activities
Budget
Learning Organization
Refreezing
(Growth through) Diversification
6. The process of arousing enthusiasm and directing efforts towards organizational goals.
Leading
Psychological Contract
Certain Environment
Innovation
7. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
Controlling
Planning
Transformational Change
Escalating Commitment
8. The requirement to show performance results to a supervisor
Reactive Change
Accountability
Problem Solving
Competitive Advantage
9. Found in job content - such as a sense of achievement - recognition - or personal growth.
Satisfier (factor)
Problem Solving
Importing
(Growth through) Diversification
10. The number of subordinates directly reporting to a manager
Hygiene (factor)
Planned Change
SoC (Span of Control)
Motivation
11. The display of negative - irrational attitudes toward woman or minorities.
Synergy
BCG Matrix
Prejudice
Retrenchment Strategy
12. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share
Outsourcing
BCG Matrix
Refreezing
Prejudice
13. The collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce.
Middle Manager
Law of Effect
Leading
Intellectual Capital
14. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
Virtual Organization
Human Skill
Boundaryless Organizations
Risk Environment
15. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.
Human Skill
Job Burnout
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Hygiene (factor)
16. A shared set of beliefs - values - and patterns of behavior common to a group of people
Culture
Satisfier (factor)
Job Enrichment
Outsourcing
17. Guides activities within one specific area of operations.
Satisficing Decision
BCG Matrix
nAch
Functional Strategy
18. The total mechanization of a job.
Corporate Strategy
Law of Effect
Automation
Risk Environment
19. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.
Culture
Skill
Procedure
Action Research
20. The overall quality of human experiences in the workplace.
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Intuitive Thinking
Training
Escalating Commitment
21. The creation of a whole that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
Synergy
Prejudice
Risk Environment
SoC (Span of Control)
22. Involves reducing the scale of current operations
Prejudice
Importing
Retrenchment Strategy
Performance
23. Sets standards as to what is good or bad or right or wrong in ones conduct.
Incremental Change
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Ethics
Technical Skill
24. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Job Enrichment
Psychological Contract
Escalating Commitment
25. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.
Mentoring
Need
Technical Skill
Globalization
26. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
Intellectual Capital
Strategy
Modeling
Heuristics
27. Results in a major and comprehensive redirection of the organization.
Culture
Knowledge Worker
Transformational Change
Ethnocentrism
28. Uses IT (information technology) to link with networks of outside suppliers and service contractors
Human Skill
Network Structure
(Growth through)Concentration
Transformational Change
29. A person who supports and is responsible for the work of others.
Decision
Incremental Change
Training
Manager
30. Uses permanent and temporary cross-functional teams to improve lateral relations
nPower
Team Structure
Planned Change
Prejudice
31. Lacking so much information that it is difficult to assign probabilities to the outcomes of alternatives.
Management Science
Mentoring
Uncertain Environment
Core Competency
32. Describes the differences among workers in gender - race - age - ethnic culture - able-bodiness - religious affiliation - and sexual orientation.
Workforce Diversity
Planned Change
Manager
Mentoring
33. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.
Heuristics
Importing
nAch
Management Science
34. The application of operant conditioning to influence human behaviour at work.
Incremental Change
nPower
Fred Fiedler
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
35. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.
Information System
Decision
Job Enrichment
BCG Matrix
36. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people
nAff
PC
Type A Personality
Technical Skill
37. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets
Importing
Problem Solving
(Growth through)Concentration
Technical Skill
38. Brings together members from different functional departments
Cross functional team
Uncertain Environment
Heuristics
Fred Fiedler
39. WOT
Innovation
Skill
Need
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
40. Involves working at home or other places using computer links to the office.
Systematic Thinking
(Growth through)Concentration
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Business Strategy
41. An invisible barrier limiting the advancement of woman and minorities
Automation
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Productivity
Knowledge Worker
42. The ability to work well in cooperation with other people.
Fred Fiedler
Satisfier (factor)
Human Skill
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
43. A work unit or smaller component within a larger organization
Network Structure
Need
Subsystem
Outsourcing
44. The process of assigning tasks - allocating resources - and arranging activities to implement plans.
Organizing
Heuristics
Planned Change
Intellectual Capital
45. When a business function is contracted to an outside supplier
Coaching
Outsourcing
Manager
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
46. The tendancy to consider one's culture as superior to others
Corporate Strategy
Hygiene (factor)
Skill
Ethnocentrism
47. The phase during which a situation is prepared for change.
Unfreezing
Boundaryless Organizations
Intellectual Capital
Human Skill
48. Expectancy x Instrumentality x Valence
Accountability
Motivation
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Mentoring
49. Growing within the same business area
(Growth through)Concentration
Budget
Transformational Change
Delegation
50. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Job Burnout
Middle Manager
Incremental Change
Modeling