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Business Leadership

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Uses IT (information technology) to link with networks of outside suppliers and service contractors






2. The ability to translate knowledge into action that results in desired performance






3. The ability to use a special proficiency or expertise in one's work.






4. A standing plan that communicates guidelines for decisions and action






5. WOT






6. Involves identifying and taking action to resolve problems






7. Desire to do something better - solve problems - or to solve complex problems






8. Provides learning opportunities to acquire and improve job related skills






9. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people






10. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities






11. A special strength that gives an organization a competitive advantage.






12. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others






13. Increases job depth by adding work planning and evaluating duties normally performed by the supervisor.






14. Is by acquisition of or investment in new and different business areas






15. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.






16. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people






17. Contingency Model - Task Oriented/Relationship Oriented






18. A work unit or smaller component within a larger organization






19. Describes the differences among workers in gender - race - age - ethnic culture - able-bodiness - religious affiliation - and sexual orientation.






20. Responds to events as or after they occur.






21. The phase at which change is stabilized.






22. Uses permanent and temporary cross-functional teams to improve lateral relations






23. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.






24. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.






25. The process of acquiring products abroad and selling them in domestic markets






26. Identifies how a division or strategic business unit will compete in its product or service domain.






27. A person oriented towards extreme achievement - impatience - and perfectionism.






28. Found in job content - such as a sense of achievement - recognition - or personal growth.






29. Assigns early career employees as proteges to more senior ones






30. Eliminates internal boundaries among internal boundaries among parts and external boundaries with the external enviroment.






31. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance






32. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.






33. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.






34. A shifting network of strategic alliances that are engaged as needed






35. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.






36. A measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment






37. A person who supports and is responsible for the work of others.






38. A comprehensive plan guiding resource allocation to achieve long-term organizational goals.






39. Involves reducing the scale of current operations






40. Growing within the same business area






41. Physical and Mental exhaustion that can be incapacitating personally and in respect to work.






42. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.






43. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.






44. Local products are sold abroad






45. The number of subordinates directly reporting to a manager






46. Aligns the organization with anticipated future challenges.






47. The process of taking a new idea and putting it into practice.






48. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.






49. The overall quality of human experiences in the workplace.






50. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.