The participation function of verbal communication allows us to participate in the social world by ______.
a. employing strategies to communicate messages through gestures
b. helping us establish social, economic, and governmental systems
c. allowing us to assert, promise, request, express, and perform
d. learn basic sounds of a language through continual interactions
c. allowing us to assert, promise, request, express, and perform
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In the China, there is a cultural belief that unique circumstances determine what is right or good. China would likely score high on ______ in Trompenaars' dimensions of value orientations.
A. activation B. diffusion C. particularism D. universalism
A useful guideline in designing strategy-facilitating policies and operating procedures is
A. to prescribe enough policies and procedures that little is left to chance in performing value chain activities, and employees should have no leeway to do things in a manner that deviates from the company's best-practices standard. B. to prescribe enough policies to give organizational members clear direction in implementing strategy and to place reasonable boundaries on their actions. This then empowers them to act within these boundaries in pursuit of company goals. C. that strictly enforced policies work better than loosely enforced policies. D. that more policies/procedures work better than fewer policies/procedures, and that strict enforcement always beats lax enforcement. E. to let individuals act in an empowered and self-directed way, subject only to the constraint that their actions and behavior be ethical and in step with the corporate culture.
Ordering costs ______.
a. are expressed on a per-order basis b. are proportional to quantity ordered c. depend on quality of products ordered d. are usually higher than holding costs
Levi Strauss is unsure of what sales forecasting method to use in determining future demand for its 501 blue jeans. When choosing the specific forecasting method, Levi Strauss should consider all of the following except
A. the costs involved. B. capital investment projects. C. time span of the forecast. D. market characteristics. E. experience of forecasters.