Business - Management, Pace 3 Quiz

A challenge currently facing the HRD field is:

One of the two outcomes of technical responsibility is ____________, which occurs when a person is relieved of moral duty because they are authorized by super-ordinates to behave in certain ways and achieve certain outcomes by obeying clearly stated strategies and plans.

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Clever bootlegging of ideas refers to secretly working on new ideas on company time as well as on personal time

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Info Tech, Inc makes complex telecommunications products, such as cellular telephones. Since this company has a distinctive competency in research and development, it should try to differentiate its product through:

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According to the NLRB rule, workers on strike for over one year are not eligible to vote in a decertification election

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Which of the following key planning elements should provide a competitive advantage that can be defended?

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In addition to interpreting ambiguous language or resolving problems not covered in the agreement, past practices may even alter clear and convincing contractual provisions

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The bottled water industry created new competitors for Coca-Cola, but it did not change the basic industry boundaries

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Lack of personal fulfillment in a job may be a symptom of:

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Which of the following begins with a company defining critical success factors and specifying objective targets and hard deadlines?

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Participation can help achieve worker acceptance of change

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In the context of organizational authority, _____ is solving problems by consistently applying the same rules, procedures, and processes.

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By 2050, the average U.S. resident will be from a non-European background.

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After PepsiCo acquired Carts of Colorado (COC), placing COC under Taco Bell might create a problem for realizing the benefit of COC in helping all PepsiCo's three restaurant businesses pursue the point of distribution because _______.

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While preparing a self-assessment of your job performance the previous year, you are required to list three goals for the coming year. You list the following as one of your goals: “I will triple sales in my territory by the end of the next fiscal year.” Based on the SMART criteria, what is the problem with this goal?

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Which of the following statements about job specialization is accurate?

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Focus, by itself, often constitutes a competitive advantage.

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In the context of NTBs, VERs are government payments to domestic firms

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The ____ strategy for an SBU focuses on increasing the short-term cash return without too much concern for the long-run impact; especially worthwhile when more cash is needed for investment in other businesses

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One technique a leader uses to bring about transformations is to get people:

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The manager with a ____________ is open to other cultures, and is eager to approach issues from multiple perspectives.

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______ is based on the belief that organizations have some responsibilities to society beyond that of making profits for the shareholders.

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Most people find it harder to focus on a negative goal than a positive goal

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In Fiedler's contingency theory, the term ____ refers to the degree to which a particular situation either permits or denies a leader the chance to influence the behavior of group members

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A manager decides to give a worker three days of unpaid leave for smoking in a dynamite factory. What kind of shaping behavior is provided here?

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There are four steps in the manufacturing process of a stuffed toy: cutting, stuffing, sealing, and packaging. There are two employees each for cutting and stuffing, but one each for sealing and packaging. The processing times of cutting, stuffing, sealing, and packaging are 8, 5, 3, and 2 seconds per toy. Assuming demand is unlimited, how long does it take (in seconds) to produce 2,000 toys starting with an empty system?

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________ are working partnerships between companies across national boundaries and increasingly across industries.

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People in war torn areas of the world, such as Afghanistan, who struggle for basic survival every day, exist on the ____ level(s) in Maslow's needs hierarchy

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Promotional tools are best used when the strategy calls for a highly targeted, time-limited boost in response

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A common problem for a founder in passing the business on to a daughter or son is

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Which of the following is not a description of organizational culture?

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Agreement in which an exporter of goods or services to another country commits to import goods or services of corresponding value from that country is called ______

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Virtual team members have to consciously assess the __________ elements of team communications

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In the context of new industry formation, Apple's iPhone, introduced on January 9, 2007, spurred the development of the _____ industry.

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The manager of Lawn and Garden Services would like to estimate the proportion of her employees' time spent performing various gardening and lawn care activities. She has made 400 random observations of a typical worker, with the following results:ActivityTime ObservedMowing 200 Trimming 80 Raking 40 Miscellaneous 80 How confident can the manager be that the true proportion of time spent mowing is between .45 and .55?

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Farmers wishing to sell grain cannot negotiate a price; they either accept the price offered or decline to sell their crop. This is an example of:

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Teams of employees who are manufacturing a product work together with their supplier to deliver the parts to them just in time for them to use the parts for the assembly of the finished product. How can this example be used to explain the process of intervention?

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An effective way of having your behavior accepted by the group is to adhere closely to group norms

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Organizations have become increasingly global in their perspectives and accept the reality that national borders no longer define ________

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Which of the following reasons helps explain why eBay may have preferred to enter into an alliance to enter the Korean online auction industry rather than going it alone?

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__________pertain to the social roles that businesses play in society beyond their economic, legal, and ethical responsibilities

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Which of the following theories suggests that an employee must regard his own ratio of merit increase pay to performance as similar to the ratio for other comparably performing people in the company?

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Compare and contrast the three types of feedback seekers in terms of their potential goals in receiving feedback.

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Which of the following roles involves making decisions about how to assign people, time, equipment, money, and other resources to attain desired outcomes?

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________ is the combination of stable physical, behavioral, and mental characteristics that gives individuals their unique identity.

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Connie has been assigned the task of efficient downsizing. In performing this job, her primary focus should be on

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What is one advantage of use of the Wonderlic test by an organization?

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_______________is the involvement, satisfaction, and enthusiasm employees have for their work.

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There are 10 rules of thumb involved in engaging employees effectively. Explain the following rule in more depth and provide an examples: Allow Participation

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Participation, innovation, access to information, and accountability are the four conditions that organizations must encourage to realize the benefits of empowerment

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________ is a nonprofit organization that provides free online and in-person assistance to entrepreneurs in the form of training, consulting and mentoring provided mainly by retired executives and entrepreneurs.

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Perhaps the most significant challenge in integrating bidding and target firms has to do with cultural differences

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Job rotation involves

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