If an organization has a profit-sharing plan in which employees are able to purchase the
company’s stock at a discount whenever the organization makes huge profits, then this
organization follows Fayol’s principle of:
A. centralization.
B. discipline.
C. initiative.
D. esprit de corps.
E. remuneration of personnel.
The demand for a product is highest during the growth stage.
A. True
B. False
The method of international expansion which presents managers with many threats and
is the most expensive due to the high level of foreign investment is the method of
international expansion through _____.
A. joint ventures
B. exporting and importing
C. licensing
D. franchising
E. wholly owned subsidiaries
Promising employees are required to undergo various training programs that focus on
the skills required to become an effective manager in their respective fields in the
future. This is called development.
A. True
B. False
A team whose members have the expertise and experience needed to develop new
products is called a research and development team.
A. True
B. False
The White House Guidelines on Religious Exercise and Expression in the Federal
Workplace are technically applicable only in federal offices.
A. True
B. False
Which of the following is true of the salience effect?
A. The salience effect leads some people to perceive women less positively than they
perceive white men.
B. Salient individuals are less often the object of attention than are other members of a
work group.
C. Individuals who are salient are often perceived to be primarily responsible for
outcomes.
D. Salient individuals are evaluated in a more balanced manner unlike other individuals
who are evaluated more extremely in either a positive or a negative direction.
E. While social status is related to bias, salience is related to stereotyping.
Which of the following is true of people who are high on negative affectivity?
A. They experience positive moods frequently.
B. They are very optimistic and friendly.
C. They are incapable of feeling happy.
D. They experience negative moods frequently.
E. They are incapable of being pessimistic.
According toHerzberg’s motivator-hygiene theory, _____ needs are related to the
physical and psychological context in which the work is performed.
A. motivator
B. expectancy
C. instrumental
D. hygiene
E. terminal
The _____ is the master computer that controls the operations of all the other types of
computers and digital devices as needed and can link them into one integrated system.
A. mainframe
B. client
C. server
D. personal computer
E. ethernet
Managers who accept the assumptions of Theory Y:
A. create a work setting that encourages commitment.
B. give little autonomy to workers.
C. focus on developing rules and procedures.
D. rely on rewards and punishments.
E. view workers as lazy.
The members of a team who bear primary responsibility for the success of a project and
who stay with a project from inception to completion are called contract members.
A. True
B. False