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A style of dealing with conflict involving
Accommodation cooperation on behalf of the other party but not
being assertive about one's own interests
The expectation that employees will perform a job,
take corrective action when necessary, and report
Accountability
upward on the status and quality of their
performance
Procedures used to verify accounting reports and
Accounting audits
statements
Acquisition One firm buying another
A method of cost accounting designed to identify
streams of activity and then to allocate costs across
Activity-based costing
particular business processes according to the
(ABC)
amount of time employees devote to particular
activities
Companies that take the current industry structure
Adapters and its evolution as givens, and choose where to
compete
When a seemingly neutral employment practice has
Adverse impact a disproportionately negative effect on a protected
group
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Advertising support Charging fees to advertise on a site
model
Emotional disagreement directed toward other
Affective conflict
people
Charging fees to direct site visitors to other
Affiliate model
companies' sites
Special efforts to recruit and hire qualified members
Affirmative action of groups that have been discriminated against in
the past
A frank and open-minded discussion of four basic
After-action review
questions aimed at continuous improvement
A human needs theory postulating that people have
Alderfer's ERG theory three basic sets of needs that can operate
simultaneously (Existence, Relatedness and Growth)
The use of a neutral third party to resolve a labor
Arbitration
dispute
A managerial performance test in which candidates
Assessment center
participate in a variety of exercises and situations
The values of the various items the corporation
Assets
owns
A style in which the leader is true to himself or
Authentic leadership
herself while leading
The legitimate right to make decisions and to tell
Authority
other people what to do
A form of leadership in which the leader makes
Autocratic leadership decisions on his or her own and then announces
those decisions to the group
Autonomous work Groups that control decisions about and execution
groups of a complete range of tasks
A reaction to conflict that involves ignoring the
Avoidance problem by doing nothing at all or deemphasizing
the disagreement
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Control system combining four sets of performance
Balanced scorecard measures: financial, customer, business process, and
learning and growth
A report that shows the financial picture of a
Balance sheet company at a given time and itemizes assets,
liabilities, and stockholders' equity
Conditions that prevent new companies from
Barriers to entry
entering an industry
A leadership perspective that attempts to identify
Behavioral approach what good leaders do—that is, what behaviors they
exhibit
The process of comparing an organization's
Benchmarking practices and technologies with those of other
companies
Informal work on projects, other than those officially
Bootlegging
assigned, of employees' own choosing and initiative
Boundaryless Organization in which there are no barriers to
organization information flow
Interacting with people in other groups, thus
Boundary-spanning
creating linkages between groups
A less-than-perfect form of rationality in which
decision makers cannot be perfectly rational
Bounded rationality because decisions are complex and complete
information is unavailable or cannot be fully
processed
A process in which group members generate as
Brainstorming many ideas about a problem as they can; criticism is
withheld until all ideas have been proposed
A person who assembles and coordinates
Broker
participants in a network
The process of investigating what is being done and
comparing the results with the corresponding
Budgeting
budget data to verify accomplishments or remedy
differences; also called budgetary controlling
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Creating supplies of excess resources in case of
Buffering
unpredictable needs
The use of rules, regulations, and authority to guide
Bureaucratic control
performance
Organization that provides support and advice to
Business accelerators
help young businesses grow
The moral principles and standards that guide
Business ethics
behavior in the world of business
Business incubators Protected environments for new, small businesses
A formal planning step that focuses on the entire
Business plan venture and describes all the elements involved in
starting it
The major actions by which a business competes in a
Business strategy
particular industry or market
An employee benefit program in which employees
Cafeteria benefit
choose from a menu of options to create a benefit
program
package tailored to their needs
The output of carbon dioxide and other
Carbon footprint
greenhouses gases
Ethical principles established by international
executives based in Caux, Switzerland, in
Caux Principles
collaboration with business leaders from Japan,
Europe, and the United States
An organization in which high-level executives make
Centralized organization most decisions and pass them down to lower levels
for implementation
The state that exists when decision makers have
Certainty
accurate and comprehensive information
A person who is dominant, self-confident,
convinced of the moral righteousness of his or her
Charismatic leader
beliefs, and able to arouse a sense of excitement
and adventure in followers
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Terms in this set (430)
A style of dealing with conflict involving
Accommodation cooperation on behalf of the other party but not
being assertive about one's own interests
The expectation that employees will perform a job,
take corrective action when necessary, and report
Accountability
upward on the status and quality of their
performance
Procedures used to verify accounting reports and
Accounting audits
statements
Acquisition One firm buying another
A method of cost accounting designed to identify
streams of activity and then to allocate costs across
Activity-based costing
particular business processes according to the
(ABC)
amount of time employees devote to particular
activities
Companies that take the current industry structure
Adapters and its evolution as givens, and choose where to
compete
When a seemingly neutral employment practice has
Adverse impact a disproportionately negative effect on a protected
group
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Advertising support Charging fees to advertise on a site
model
Emotional disagreement directed toward other
Affective conflict
people
Charging fees to direct site visitors to other
Affiliate model
companies' sites
Special efforts to recruit and hire qualified members
Affirmative action of groups that have been discriminated against in
the past
A frank and open-minded discussion of four basic
After-action review
questions aimed at continuous improvement
A human needs theory postulating that people have
Alderfer's ERG theory three basic sets of needs that can operate
simultaneously (Existence, Relatedness and Growth)
The use of a neutral third party to resolve a labor
Arbitration
dispute
A managerial performance test in which candidates
Assessment center
participate in a variety of exercises and situations
The values of the various items the corporation
Assets
owns
A style in which the leader is true to himself or
Authentic leadership
herself while leading
The legitimate right to make decisions and to tell
Authority
other people what to do
A form of leadership in which the leader makes
Autocratic leadership decisions on his or her own and then announces
those decisions to the group
Autonomous work Groups that control decisions about and execution
groups of a complete range of tasks
A reaction to conflict that involves ignoring the
Avoidance problem by doing nothing at all or deemphasizing
the disagreement
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Control system combining four sets of performance
Balanced scorecard measures: financial, customer, business process, and
learning and growth
A report that shows the financial picture of a
Balance sheet company at a given time and itemizes assets,
liabilities, and stockholders' equity
Conditions that prevent new companies from
Barriers to entry
entering an industry
A leadership perspective that attempts to identify
Behavioral approach what good leaders do—that is, what behaviors they
exhibit
The process of comparing an organization's
Benchmarking practices and technologies with those of other
companies
Informal work on projects, other than those officially
Bootlegging
assigned, of employees' own choosing and initiative
Boundaryless Organization in which there are no barriers to
organization information flow
Interacting with people in other groups, thus
Boundary-spanning
creating linkages between groups
A less-than-perfect form of rationality in which
decision makers cannot be perfectly rational
Bounded rationality because decisions are complex and complete
information is unavailable or cannot be fully
processed
A process in which group members generate as
Brainstorming many ideas about a problem as they can; criticism is
withheld until all ideas have been proposed
A person who assembles and coordinates
Broker
participants in a network
The process of investigating what is being done and
comparing the results with the corresponding
Budgeting
budget data to verify accomplishments or remedy
differences; also called budgetary controlling
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Creating supplies of excess resources in case of
Buffering
unpredictable needs
The use of rules, regulations, and authority to guide
Bureaucratic control
performance
Organization that provides support and advice to
Business accelerators
help young businesses grow
The moral principles and standards that guide
Business ethics
behavior in the world of business
Business incubators Protected environments for new, small businesses
A formal planning step that focuses on the entire
Business plan venture and describes all the elements involved in
starting it
The major actions by which a business competes in a
Business strategy
particular industry or market
An employee benefit program in which employees
Cafeteria benefit
choose from a menu of options to create a benefit
program
package tailored to their needs
The output of carbon dioxide and other
Carbon footprint
greenhouses gases
Ethical principles established by international
executives based in Caux, Switzerland, in
Caux Principles
collaboration with business leaders from Japan,
Europe, and the United States
An organization in which high-level executives make
Centralized organization most decisions and pass them down to lower levels
for implementation
The state that exists when decision makers have
Certainty
accurate and comprehensive information
A person who is dominant, self-confident,
convinced of the moral righteousness of his or her
Charismatic leader
beliefs, and able to arouse a sense of excitement
and adventure in followers
https://quizlet.com/1049709188/wgu-c483-principles-of-management-questions-with-accurate-verified-answers-accurate-solutions-a-passed-202… 4/35
