WGU D253 VALUE BASED LEADERSHIP
EXAM PREPARATION TEST BANK WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS
●● Accounting audits
Answer: Procedures used to verify accounting reports and statements
●● Acquisition
Answer: One firm buying another
●● Activity-Based costing (ABC)
Answer: A method of cost accounting designed to identify streams of
activity and then to allocate costs across particular business processes
according to the mount of time employees devote to particular activities
●● Adapters
Answer: Companies that take the current industry structure and its
evolution as givens, and choose where to compete.
●● Adverse impact
Answer: When a seemingly neutral employment practice has a
disproportionately negative effect on a protected group.
,●● Advertising support model
Answer: Charging fees to advertise on a site.
●● affective conflict
Answer: Emotional disagreement directed toward other people
●● affiliate model
Answer: Charging fees to direct site visitors to other companies' sites
●● affirmative action
Answer: Special efforts to recruit and hire qualified members of groups
that have been discriminated against in the past.
●● Alderfer's ERG theory
Answer: A human needs theory postulating that people have three basic
sets of needs that can operate simultaneously
●● arbitration
Answer: The use of a neutral third party to resolve a labor dispute.
●● assessment center
Answer: A managerial performance test in which candidates participate
in a variety of exercises and situations.
,●● assets
Answer: The values of the various items the corporation owns.
●● Authentic leadership
Answer: A style in which the leader is true to himself or herself while
leading
●● autocratic leadership
Answer: A form of leadership in which the leader makes decisions on his
or her own and then announces those decisions to the group
●● autonomous work groups
Answer: Groups that control decisions about and excution of a complete
range of tasks
●● avoidance
Answer: A reaction to conflict that involves ignoring the problem by
doing nothing at all, or deemphasizing the disagreement.
●● balance sheet
Answer: A report that shows the financial picture of a company at a
given time and itemizes assets, liabilities, and stockholders' equity
, ●● balanced scorecard
Answer: Control system combining four sets of performance measures:
financial, customer, business process, and learning and growth
●● barriers to entry
Answer: Conditions that prevent new companies from entering an
industry
●● behavioral approach
Answer: a leadership perspective that attempts to identify what good
leaders do-that is, what behaviors they exhibit
●● benchmarking
Answer: The process of comparing an organization's practices and
technologies with those of other companies.
●● Bootlegging
Answer: Informal work on projects, other than those officially assigned,
of employees' own choosing and initiative
●● boundaryless organization
Answer: organization in which there are no barriers to information flow.
EXAM PREPARATION TEST BANK WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS
●● Accounting audits
Answer: Procedures used to verify accounting reports and statements
●● Acquisition
Answer: One firm buying another
●● Activity-Based costing (ABC)
Answer: A method of cost accounting designed to identify streams of
activity and then to allocate costs across particular business processes
according to the mount of time employees devote to particular activities
●● Adapters
Answer: Companies that take the current industry structure and its
evolution as givens, and choose where to compete.
●● Adverse impact
Answer: When a seemingly neutral employment practice has a
disproportionately negative effect on a protected group.
,●● Advertising support model
Answer: Charging fees to advertise on a site.
●● affective conflict
Answer: Emotional disagreement directed toward other people
●● affiliate model
Answer: Charging fees to direct site visitors to other companies' sites
●● affirmative action
Answer: Special efforts to recruit and hire qualified members of groups
that have been discriminated against in the past.
●● Alderfer's ERG theory
Answer: A human needs theory postulating that people have three basic
sets of needs that can operate simultaneously
●● arbitration
Answer: The use of a neutral third party to resolve a labor dispute.
●● assessment center
Answer: A managerial performance test in which candidates participate
in a variety of exercises and situations.
,●● assets
Answer: The values of the various items the corporation owns.
●● Authentic leadership
Answer: A style in which the leader is true to himself or herself while
leading
●● autocratic leadership
Answer: A form of leadership in which the leader makes decisions on his
or her own and then announces those decisions to the group
●● autonomous work groups
Answer: Groups that control decisions about and excution of a complete
range of tasks
●● avoidance
Answer: A reaction to conflict that involves ignoring the problem by
doing nothing at all, or deemphasizing the disagreement.
●● balance sheet
Answer: A report that shows the financial picture of a company at a
given time and itemizes assets, liabilities, and stockholders' equity
, ●● balanced scorecard
Answer: Control system combining four sets of performance measures:
financial, customer, business process, and learning and growth
●● barriers to entry
Answer: Conditions that prevent new companies from entering an
industry
●● behavioral approach
Answer: a leadership perspective that attempts to identify what good
leaders do-that is, what behaviors they exhibit
●● benchmarking
Answer: The process of comparing an organization's practices and
technologies with those of other companies.
●● Bootlegging
Answer: Informal work on projects, other than those officially assigned,
of employees' own choosing and initiative
●● boundaryless organization
Answer: organization in which there are no barriers to information flow.
