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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. Aligns the organization with anticipated future challenges.
Synergy
Planning
Crisis
Planned Change
2. Lacks complete information but offers 'probabillities' of the likely outcomes for possible action alternatives.
Risk Environment
Outsourcing
Functional Strategy
Coaching
3. Making managerial decisions based on the situation; Management is not a science.
Motivation
Crisis
Contingency Thinking
Exporting
4. Some whose knowledge is a critical asset to employers.
Policy
Synergy
Knowledge Worker
Job Enrichment
5. The number of subordinates directly reporting to a manager
SoC (Span of Control)
Groupthink
Decision
Middle Manager
6. Results in a major and comprehensive redirection of the organization.
Escalating Commitment
nAff
Transformational Change
Problem Solving
7. Involves identifying and taking action to resolve problems
Contingency Thinking
Problem Solving
Subsystem
Functional Chimney Problem
8. A standing plan that precisely describes what actions are to be taken in specific situations
Job Enrichment
Crisis
Learning Organization
Procedure
9. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale
Ethnocentrism
Accountability
Functional Strategy
PC
10. Oversees the work of large departments or divisions.
Middle Manager
Law of Effect
Job Performance
Technical Skill
11. Choosing the first satisfactory alternative that comes to attention
Knowledge Worker
(Growth through)Concentration
Satisficing Decision
Budget
12. The requirement to show performance results to a supervisor
Crisis
Management Science
Accountability
Strategy
13. Found in job content - such as a sense of achievement - recognition - or personal growth.
Crisis
Satisfier (factor)
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Systematic Thinking
14. Bends and adjusts existing ways to improve performance
Performance efficiency
Ethics
Incremental Change
Planned Change
15. WOT
Delegation
Importing
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threats
Virtual Organization
16. Comes from operating in successful ways that are difficult to imitate.
P Decision (Programmed)
Automation
Competitive Advantage
Ethics
17. Motivation Accounts for the level - ___________- and persistence of effort expended at work.
Synergy
Direction
Risk Environment
Unfreezing
18. The process of setting objectives and determining what should be done to accomplish them.
Strategy
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Planning
Escalating Commitment
19. The total mechanization of a job.
Hygiene (factor)
Risk Environment
Satisficing Decision
Automation
20. When a business function is contracted to an outside supplier
Outsourcing
Subsystem
Performance efficiency
Ethnocentrism
21. The quantity and quality of work performance - with resource utilization considered.
Productivity
Risk Environment
Training
Psychological Contract
22. The set of expectations held by an individual about working relationships with the organization.
Organizing
Psychological Contract
Uncertain Environment
Virtual Organization
23. Involves an experienced person offering performance advice to a less-experienced person
Leading
(Growth through) Diversification
Job Performance
Coaching
24. Applies a specific solution crafted for a unique problem
QWL (Quality of Worklife)
Training
NP Decision (Non-Programmed)
Reactive Change
25. Desire to control - influence - or to be responsible for other people
nPower
Need
Satisficing Decision
Conceptual Skill
26. Demonstrates through personal behavior the job performance expected of others
Decision
nAff
Action Research
Modeling
27. Is a choice among possible alternative courses of action
Corporate Strategy
Psychological Contract
nAch
Decision
28. Responds to events as or after they occur.
Telecommuting (flexiplace)
Modeling
Information System
Reactive Change
29. Uses mathmatical techniques to analyze and solve management problems.
Intuitive Thinking
Groupthink
Management Science
Workforce Diversity
30. Approaches problems in a flexible and spontaneous fashion.
Outsourcing
Intuitive Thinking
Retrenchment Strategy
SoC (Span of Control)
31. The worldwide interdependence of resource flows - product markets - and business competition.
Globalization
Performance effectiveness
Automation
Problem Solving
32. Boston Consulting Group - analyzes business opportunities according to market growth rate and market share
BCG Matrix
Business Strategy
Accountability
Lifelong Learning
33. Approaches problems in a rational and analytical fashion.
SoC (Span of Control)
Systematic Thinking
Training
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
34. Offers complete information on possible action alternatives and their consequences.
Knowledge Worker
Intuitive Thinking
Procedure
Certain Environment
35. The phase during which a situation is prepared for change.
Uncertain Environment
P Decision (Programmed)
Ethnocentrism
Unfreezing
36. Found in job context - such as working conditions - interpersonal relations - organizational policies - and salary.
Subsystem
Direction
Hygiene (factor)
Business Strategy
37. Continuous learning from daily experiences and opportunities
Lifelong Learning
Team Structure
Conceptual Skill
Information System
38. A collaborative process of collecting data - using it for action planning - and evaluating the results.
(Growth through) Diversification
Action Research
Learning Organization
Functional Chimney Problem
39. An unexpected problem that can lead to disaster if not resolved quickly and appropriately
Management Science
Crisis
Skill
Delegation
40. The application of operant conditioning to influence human behaviour at work.
OBM (Organizational Business Modification)
Functional Strategy
Core Competency
Systematic Thinking
41. An invisible barrier limiting the advancement of woman and minorities
Top Manager
Performance efficiency
GCE (Glass Ceiling Effect)
Modeling
42. Desire to establish and maintain good relations with people
Intuitive Thinking
nAff
Ethics
(Growth through) Diversification
43. Sets long-term direction for the total enterprise.
Coaching
nAff
Unfreezing
Corporate Strategy
44. Strategies for simplifying decision-making
Direction
Manager
Coaching
Heuristics
45. Is the process of distributing and entrusting work to other persons.
Crisis
Information System
Delegation
Mentoring
46. Guides the performance of the organization as a whole or of one of its major parts.
Top Manager
P Decision (Programmed)
Systematic Thinking
Modeling
47. A shifting network of strategic alliances that are engaged as needed
Virtual Organization
Heuristics
Lifelong Learning
Corporate Strategy
48. Applying a solution from past experience to a routine problem
Hygiene (factor)
Refreezing
BCG Matrix
P Decision (Programmed)
49. The continuation of a course of action even though it is not working
Need
Escalating Commitment
Refreezing
Systematic Thinking
50. The phase at which change is stabilized.
Direction
Fred Fiedler
Refreezing
nAff