Business - Management; Quizlevel3

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One of the most leading authors in the field of HRM posited that there are rhetorics and realities of HRM practices. Who is this?

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Boards of directors in the United States are required to staff their compensation committees exclusively with outside directors.

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During the first staff meeting after Blake joined the company, he was completely confused by his coworkers' repeated references to the "PPAC committee" and "the next level drill-down." Blake experienced which barrier to communication?

4

Claims processing determines whether an employer has an obligation to fulfill a promise of payment when an employee asserts that disability or hospitalization has occurred.

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Customer identification or discovery asks the question:

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A company's external environment consists of which two environments?

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________ is a term used to describe the view of the American corporation as a bundle of assets to be bought and sold with an exclusive goal of maximizing shareholder value.

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Management must think of the organization as a "____" which must strategically react according to internal and external environmental changes, and thus the design must constantly change to respond to changes in competition, technology, government, environment, and the labor force

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Which of the following best defines the term ‘effectiveness'?

10

Kyle is known for his ____ behavior. He talks fast, ignores others, and uses sarcasm to maintain control of the conversation.

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Direct financial payments include all of the following EXCEPT ________

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_____ exist when the overall organizational culture is supplemented by another culture governing a more specific set of employees

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Which of the following is an organization focusing on when it minimizes waste by not overproducing goods and generating a fair profit for stakeholders?

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Suppliers tend to exhibit greater power if:

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Self-direction means that leaders have to

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The personality and unique character of a group is best known as its ________ and includes the group's assumptions, values, beliefs, norms, ideologies, and the structure of its social, political, economic, and religious institutions

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When gathering information within an organization, _____

18

Max, who sells fine suits at a men's clothier, is likely to suffer from emotional labor when he

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What type of company has its central corporate office making dominant decisions, though each national or regional operation has some autonomy in business decision-making? These companies also develop strategic capabilities that allow them to be sensitive and responsive to differences in national environments around the world.

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Which of the following is NOT related to having an internal locus of control?

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For locating distribution centers, you can use a ________ method. This approach calculates the best cost location for a single distribution center serving multiple outlets, whether company retail locations or customer sites

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Freud argued that behavior is caused by unconscious motives and that these motives are shaped by a variety of personality development stages, each having ____

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Researchers who participated in the GLOBE study theorized that members of a culture share cognitive structures and beliefs about the traits and behaviors of outstanding leaders and thus have a culturally endorsed implicit leadership theory

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By the early twenty-first century, unions were winning

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Management's objective is to get labor costs per unit of output to a point below that of the ________ at the product-line level.

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What are virtual teams? Speculate on their likely role in global organizations in the future

Virtual teams are groups of geographically and/or organizationally dispersed coworkers who use a combination of telecommunications and information technologies to accomplish an organizational task. In other words, members of virtual teams rarely meet face to face. The idea of virtual teams is relatively new and has been made possible by advances in communications and technology, such as e-mail, the World Wide Web, videoconferencing, and other products. Virtual teams can be employee involvement teams, self-managing teams, or nearly any kind of team discussed in Chapter 10 . Virtual teams are often (but not necessarily) temporary teams that are set up to accomplish a specific task. The characteristics of virtual teams make them an excellent asset for use in global organizations, where individual workers may need to collaborate, but are separated by both time zones and great distances. Thus, it can be speculated that global organizations will make increasing use of virtual teams in an attempt to gain or maintain competitive advantage in the future.
The following paragraph applies the text description of virtual teams to the work context of global organizations to provide support for the above speculation, and represents a minimal approach to an acceptable answer to this question. Better answers will include this material, but go beyond it to give real or logical examples of virtual teams working effectively in global organizations, or to generate other applications and insights beyond those directly implied by the text.
The principal advantage of virtual teams is that they are very flexible. Employees can work with each other, regardless of physical location, time zone, or organizational affiliation. Thus, they are likely to become much more prevalent in global organizations, to overcome these barriers. Because the team members don't meet in a physical location, one of the unique qualities of virtual teams is that it is much easier to include other key stakeholders, such as suppliers and customers. This can be a particularly strong advantage to a global organization, which potentially faces considerably greater diversity in both suppliers and customers. Plus, virtual teams have certain efficiency advantages over traditional team structures. Because the teammates do not meet face to face, the time commitment involved in participating in a virtual team is typically not as great as for a traditional team. Moreover, employees can fulfill the responsibilities of their virtual team membership from the comfort of their own offices, without the travel time or downtime typically required by "real" face-to-face meetings. This final advantage is a crucial factor for global organizations, where considerable travel time for face-to-face meetings is a very real and significant organizational cost.

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The behavior-costing approach to employee attitude valuation is based on the assumption that measures of attitudes are indicators of subsequent employee behaviors.

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Mars, Hershey’s, Lindt and Nestle all compete in the same industry.

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How do experience-curve and learning-curve effects help a business gain competitive advantage?

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You do not need to be cautious about workplace friendships

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_____ refers to the cultural composition of a group or organization

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Cite five of the issues that should be addressed in the industry analysis

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Supply chain management refers to managing the sequence of suppliers and purchasers and covers all stages of processing, from obtaining raw materials to distributing finished goods to consumers.

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_____ are groups in which two or more members represent each of two distinct cultures

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A problem exists when a manager sees a way for the firm to achieve a more desirable state than the one it's currently in

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Reebok transferring the manufacturing of its sneakers to a third-party company in Thailand would be an example of both outsourcing and offshoring

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A limitation of groups is that they can encourage social loafing

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Which of the following statements is true when we consider innovation for products in the context of the product life cycle?

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Since senders and receivers of communication each bring their own ____________, the messages they seek to transfer are often subject to distortions

40

The employees of a manufacturing company are scheduled to have contract negotiations with their employer. While preparing for the negotiations, the employees and the employer decide the parameters of the bargaining session. They agree that wages, benefits, and working hours will be discussed during the session. In the given scenario, the employees and the employer will be discussing _____

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The Four-Fifths rule is used to determine

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Which of the following is NOT an approach to reduce the inaccuracy of forecasts?

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In which scenario might a check sheet be used?

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In Peter Drucker's view of management, profit is the primary reason for business activity

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Through replacement and succession planning the organization constructs internal talent pipelines.

46

The most common and serious consequence of power corruption is poor decision making.

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______ is the degree to which employees are expected to follow the same rules and policies everywhere.

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Which of these is a major concern for employers when addressing diversity?

49

What is the main difference between transformational leaders and charismatic leaders?

50

List three purposes for horizontal communication

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Which demographic do managers pay closest attention to with respect to large-scale trends in the business world?

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Which of the following is not common law?

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Marie-Helene de Taillac is a well-known European designer of understated, very delicate jewelry. Once she determined that further growth was impossible without changing how she distributed her product, she decided to open her own retail outlet to sell her product rather than letting department stores sell it. Since she made the decision without really examining the costs involved in implementing

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