Business - Management, Quiz Grade 3

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Worker behavior on the job is frequently a reflection of how well the work environment accommodates each worker's unique characteristics

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________ leadership is the ability to create and articulate a realistic, credible, and attractive vision of the future for an organization that improves on the present.

3

The option of sticking with the current business lineup makes sense when _____.

4

Which of the following provides employment counseling services for employees faced with downsizing?

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Which of the following is the deliberate process through which someone becomes aware of personal skills, interests, knowledge, motivations, and other characteristics; acquires information about opportunities and choices; identifies career-related goals; and establishes action plans to attain specific goals?

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Bettina wants to make the Dean's List this semester. She is doing well in all of her courses except Accounting. This presents a(n) ________ for Bettina.

7

A team leader's job is less challenging than frontline and other types of managers' jobs because team leaders always have direct control over team members.

8

When the producer sells through an import agent, a wholesaler, and a retailer, a _________ channel length exists

9

Which statement is true of an assessment center?

10

In evaluating whether the industry and competitive environment presents sufficiently attractive prospects for both competitive success and attractive profits usually does not involve a consideration of which of the following factors?

11

Which of the following refers to the degree to which the requirements of the work—in terms of knowledge, skills, and abilities—tax or exceed the capabilities of the person who is responsible for performing the work?

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__________ is the duty to perform the task or activity as assigned.

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Role ________ involves confusion over roles in a group and the boundaries of those roles

14

Explain the concept of escalating commitment which is a possible weakness of a committee.

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A plan that allows employees to select the benefits that best suit their needs up to a preset dollar value is called ______.

16

A _______________ is a name attached to a product or service.

17

Which of the following steps should be carried out third when deciding to sell a business?

18

Which of the following is not a personal barrier to communication?

19

The resource-based view (RBV) of the firm combines two perspectives:

20

Syndie writes a fashion blog outside of her work hours and duties. In one blog post, she used pictures of her coworkers as examples of “what not to wear” and made comments about her department having as little business sense as it did fashion sense. When her coworkers objected to her online comments, management insisted that she take down the blog post or face disciplinary action. This example illustrates Syndie’s limited right to ______.

21

The notion of entitlement at work:

22

Match each of the following scenarios with the most appropriate description. Some descriptions may be used more than once.

in Business

A. Apollonia has worked for many years as a software tester. She feels uncomfortable talking to people and has declined countless invitations to become a manager over the years. Nevertheless, the suggestions she quietly puts forward during meetings nearly always come to pass, and her personal approval is highly sought. Everyone who works on a project with her gives it their best effort.
B. Maurice, a technical writer, has a knack for coming up with user interface improvements for the software his company creates. Senior members of the software development team frequently invite him to their meetings to hear his suggestions and follow his vision.
C. Hugo, a vice president in a software company, used to work as a software developer, but that was decades ago. The current batch of software developers views him as completely out of touch with the demands of software creation. They’ll do what he says if they absolutely have to, but any order that Hugo doesn’t follow up on is sure to be ignored.
D. Uther is a junior software developer. Everybody loves him and thinks he’s fun, good-natured, and smart. Since he’s new, he’s currently more focused on making sure his work gets done well than on developing a vision for the future of the software.
E. Trixie is a senior software developer. Ten programmers report to her, and they would go to the end of the world for her.

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Job satisfaction is not a unitary concept; a person may be satisfied with one aspect of his or her job and dissatisfied with one or more other aspects.

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A construction firm is in need of a construction superintendent, whose primary responsibilities involve organizing, supervising, and inspecting the work of several subcontractors. The firm administers a construction-error recognition test, where an applicant enters a shed that has 25 construction errors and where he/she is asked to record as many of these problems as can be detected. What type of validity is being established in this case?

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Which of the following statements is true of interpersonal barriers to communication?

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Which of the following reasons is true regarding why the strategy of tit-for-tat is effective at

27

Assessing ______ requires evaluating whether an organization is financially strong or in jeopardy.

28

GreenInc, a small cleaning company addresses all good social and environmental practices of its sector. The company pays very fair wages which is often an issue in the cleaning industry, applies the most advanced ecological cleaning supplies, and has achieved to do so with a very decent profit margin. As none of the companies in the cleaning industry, also GreenInc is not able to apply cleaning

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Which of the following is not characteristic of a group?

30

Research suggests that management teams are superior to individuals in their ability to make effective decisions. Given the underlying cultural characteristic of individualism in the U.S., will U.S. firms be able to develop teams that are as strong as those of their foreign competitors? Why or why not?

Cultures that favor group collectivism or adhesion to the group may be more "naturally equipped" for teamwork. The discussion in the text of the Hofstede work indicates that the output of individuals working in groups differs between individualist and collectivist cultures. In the United States (individualist), for example, social loafing is common and people tend to perform less well in group versus individual settings. One researcher found that the Chinese (collectivist) did not exhibit as much social loafing as Americans since they placed group interests above individual interests.

Despite these disadvantages, however, an individualist culture does not doom the U.S. for a number of reasons. First, it is clear that cultural sensitivity can at least in part be learned. This implies that U.S. teams could learn about the collective response of other cultures and the benefit in emulating some parts of it. In terms of U.S. competitors, while their "domestic" culture may be collective, the most successful firms will have to deal cross-culturally. Firms that are naturally team oriented will still have to find ways to integrate individualistic employees from other cultures. Finally, Exhibit 3-6 "Americans at Glance" suggests that Americans are always searching for easier, better ways to accomplish tasks and that traditional American values are in transition which suggests an openness to different cultural approaches.

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_____ involves employee disclosure of illegal, immoral, or illegitimate practices on the part of the organization

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It is important that an entrepreneur

33

The limited partners in a venture share control of day-to-day operations with the general partners.

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When we make judgments about the behavior of other people, we tend to underestimate the influence of external factors and to overestimate the influence of internal factors. This tendency is called the self-serving bias.

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Process managers avoid risk and centralize decision making.

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In expectancy theory, the perception that an employee’s performance will be appraised accurately and will lead to rewards (e.g., pay raises, bonuses, etc.) is referred to as ______.

37

When constructing a responsibility matrix or "RACI" chart, it is important to ensure that only one person has primary accountability for any activity.

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Which organizational strategy is consistent with an adaptive orientation?

39

Focusing on a single strength to compensate for overall bad feelings about oneself is a good way to build higher self-esteem.

40

Product departmentalization has the disadvantages that ____ and administrative cost is increased

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When a team consists of members who come from different functional areas, with different areas of expertise, different information, different priorities, and different perceptions of problems and opportunities, the ________ is exacerbated

42

Jimpeg, a manufacturer of imaging and optical products based in the U.S., operates under the name of Pixpem and SetJpeg in six different countries. The company operates using different names, but it sells the same products in every country. The revenue generated in the different countries goes back to the parent company. Which of the following methods for conducting global business has Jimpeg

43

The main exclusion from copyright laws is that copyright laws cannot protect ________

44

Even if an IC has less than 50 percent of the voting stock and no voting stock, it can still exercise ______ over a subsidiary's decisions and activities.

45

The best group composition for a group designed to perform a complex task is:

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Process Analysis is a step-by-step breakdown of the phases of a process, used to determine the inputs, outputs, and operations that take place during each phase.

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Depreciation is a cash outflow.

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________ is the specific amount of profit one expects to achieve in a business.

49

Long queues are evidence of a _________ problem.

50

A challenge followers face when managing up is:

51

More than 350 studies have used the MLQ to investigate transformational and transactional leadership in various situations. What have researchers learned about these two leadership styles?

52

Which of the following formulas is used to compute the latest completion time of an activity, Ay?

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In a meeting, you hear Mary say, "Some things are just meant to be," and "The economic health of this country is largely beyond the control of the individual." You classify Mary as a person with an external locus of control

54

The use of milestones in the experiential approach to innovation ____

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You have spent $322,168 on your project to date. The program manager wants to know why costs have been running so high. You explain that the resource cost has been greater than expected and should level out over the next six months. What does the $322,168 represent to the program manager?

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Business - Management, Quiz Grade 3

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