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Cross-border work teams made up of members of different nationalities whose
activities span multiple countries are called:
a. self-directed teams.
b. project teams.
c. multinational teams.
d. long distance teams.
e. global teams.
An approach to innovation that emphasizes shared development of innovations among
several departments is referred to as the horizontal linkage model.
a. True
b. False
It is okay for a job application to ask whether the applicant has a legal right to work in
the United States.
a. True
b. False
Goal acceptance, in goal-setting theory, means that employees have to "buy into" the
goals and be committed to them.
a. True
b. False
_____ is NOT a type of current problem that organizational development can help
address.
a. Mergers
b. Acquisitions
c. Diversification
d. Organizational decline
e. Conflict management
The decision by ABC International to downsize and reduce its labor force is in the:
a. domain of codified law. b. domain of free choice.
c. domain of ethics. d. social responsibility.
e. none of these.
Physical symbols are associated with the surface level of organizational culture.
a. True
b. False
Jacob was recently looking at his company's organization chart in an attempt to
discover who reports to whom. Jacob is studying his organization's:
a. degree of formalization.
b. amount of differentiation.
c. degree of centralization.
d. chain of command.
e. division of labor.
People with an external locus of control are:
a. more achievement oriented.
b. better able to handle complex information and problem solving.
c. more independent.
d. easier to motivate.
e. easier to lead.
Sharon is a manager at Softest Tissue Corporation. She is faced with an interesting
problem. One of her employees has been cheating the company out of expense money.
Sharon must decide whether or not to fire this employee. In this role, Sharon is acting
as:
a. a moral agent.
b. an ethical theorist.
c. a symbolic leader.
d. an authoritarian leader.
e. an obstructive manager.
The horizontal linkage model is increasingly important in high pressure business
environments that require rapidly developing and commercializing products and
services.
a. True
b. False
_____ firms are groups of companies or individuals that invest money in exchange for a
stake in the company.
A(n) _____ strategy seeks to achieve both global integration and national
responsiveness.
Name three of the four ways entrepreneurs can become business owners.
Define ethics and explain how the domain of ethics relates to law and free choice.
The _____ approach contends that acts are moral when they promote the individual's
best long-term interests.
A(n) _____ is a desired future state that the organization attempts to realize.
A physiological and emotional response to stimuli that place physical or psychological
demands on an individual is called ______.
_____ entrepreneurs are committed to both good business and changing the world for
the better.
Power that stems from the authority to punish or recommend punishment is called
_____.
_____ are created by the organization as part of the formal organization structure.
