The Michigan researchers used the term_______ for leaders who established high
performance goals and displayed supportive behavior toward subordinates.
a. job-centered leaders
b. employee-centered leaders
c. initiating structure
d. consideration
e. impoverished management
All of the following are key steps of setting up feedback control systems EXCEPT:
a. comparing performance to standards.
b. establishing standards.
c. getting employee opinions.
d. measuring performance.
e. making necessary corrections.
In the current external business environment, which of the following is true?
a. Corporate culture defines success.
b. The business environment is static.
c. Companies are more adversarial than ever before.
d. Mergers are declining.
e. Joint ventures are on the rise.
All functions in a specific country or region report to the same division manager
in_______divisions.
a. functional
b. matrix
c. geographic-based
d. teams
e. networks
Cultural values in organizations are rarely observed.
a. True
b. False
Kara’s department is made up of people with similar skills and work activities. Her
organization uses the _____ approach to departmentalization.
a. team-based
b. horizontal matrix
c. divisional
d. vertical functional
e. process
Upward communication is usually used to communicate information about all of the
following EXCEPT:
a. suggestions for improvement.
b. performance reports.
c. indoctrination.
d. financial and accounting information.
e. grievance and disputes.
A balance sheet budget is a budget that plans and reports investments in major assets to
be depreciated over several years.
a. True
b. False
Fortunately, today, part-time and temporary workers are not often used by most
companies.
a. True
b. False
All of the following are current strategic issues of particular concern to managers
EXCEPT:
a. hiring the right people to become more competitive on a global basis.
b. hiring the right people for improving quality, innovation, and customer service.
c. hiring the right people to become more competitive on a local basis.
d. knowing the right people to retain during mergers and acquisitions.
e. hiring the right people to apply new information technology for e-business.
Compare the four levels of goals and plans.
______teams typically consist of 5 to 20 multiskilled workers who rotate jobs to
produce an entire product or service or at least one complete aspect or portion of a
product or service.
Describe the three situational elements under Fiedler’s Contingency Theory that can be
described as either favorable or unfavorable.
The visual representation of an organization’s structure is called the______.
What is the basic difference between consideration behavior and initiating structure
behavior?
A(n)_____ is a person who is responsible for coordinating the activities of several
departments for the completion of a specific project.