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Stress can arise from an opportunity.
Management has an impact on all businesses, but there are almost no examples of
businesses that have failed because of poor management.
One of the first things an entrepreneur does is look for potential opportunities in the
marketplace.
An employee who feels pressure to keep pace with work quotas is experiencing task
demand stress.
Workplace violence, in all its many forms, affects around 250,000 U.S. workers each
year.
A theory of justice view of ethics focuses on individual liberties and privileges.
New online advertising technology is an external force that creates a need for
organizational change when it causes a company to change its advertising strategy.
Regret is computed by subtracting the value of a possible strategy from the greatest
value in the entire matrix.
An organization that hires employees from other countries but does not obtain financing
from a foreign source cannot be considered global.
In today's world, modern devices prevent the possibility of information overload.
A major cause of the shutdown of a BMW assembly plant in South Carolina in 2010
was a bank crisis in Iceland.
Continuous improvement changes are not considered changes in technology because
they are changes that are planned and expected.
Managers with a parochial view of the world tend to see things from the point of view
of a foreign culture.
An employee who feels unsettled because he is not sure what his responsibilities are is
experiencing role overload stress.
How does a fixed-point reordering system work?
A) When inventory level reaches 50 percent of maximum, the system orders new
inventory.
B) When inventory level reaches 33 percent of maximum, the system orders new
inventory.
C) At some preestablished inventory level, the system automatically orders new
inventory.
D) At some random inventory level, the system automatically orders new inventory.
Which kind of structure does a company with a learning culture require?
A) an organic structure
B) a highly mechanistic structure
C) a hierarchical structure
D) a nonhierarchical structure
Maximizing value for an organization means making sure that ________.
A) the organization makes money
B) the best interests of the organization are addressed
C) the decision made is as rational as possible
D) the decision is as simple as possible
Job redesigns are good ways to reduce stress that employees feel from ________.
A) work overload or boredom
B) work overload only
C) boredom only
D) boredom overload
The grocery chain SuperValu has found that using ________ helps keep employees
both connected and engaged.
A) social media
B) task management
C) discipline
D) friendliness
The argument against social responsibility that states that pursuing goals other than
making profits diverts a company away from its primary goal of making profits is
known as ________.
A) possession of resources
B) too much power
C) lack of skills
D) dilution of purpose
________ individuals tend to be dependent on positive evaluation from others.
A) High self-esteem
B) High Mach
C) Low self-esteem
D) Internal locus of control
The requirement for value chain management that is most closely associated with trust
is ________.
A) organizational culture and attitudes
B) technology investment
C) organizational processes
D) employees/human resources
A management information system (MIS) provides managers with ________ data.
A) analyzed and processed
B) raw
C) unanalyzed
D) numerical
In a ________, employees are recruited from functional departments to work on a
specific project for a limited time period.
A) team structure
B) divisional structure
C) product structure
D) matrix structure
Inputs in the transformation process include ________.
A) physical, material substances only
B) both material and nonmaterial items
C) nonmaterial items only
D) equipment and materials only
Material outputs in an open system organization include ________.
A) services
B) products
C) raw materials
D) information
Which of the following is NOT a topic that is addressed by organizational behavior
research?
A) motivation
B) managing conflict
C) demand forecasts
D) establishing trust
A leader who pretty much leaves employees on their own is assuming this SLT role.
A) telling
B) selling
C) participating
D) delegating
Which of the following is a good example of an organization using a learning culture to
further its goals?
A) a company subsidizing the education of its employees in university courses
B) a company sharing "tricks" for how to best use a complicated software program
C) a company giving bonuses to employees who read books on specific topics
D) a company providing free software that is categorized as "educational"
Which of the following do managers NOT typically use to formulate strategies?
A) finding ways to exploit the organization's strengths
B) finding ways to protect the organization from external threats
C) finding ways to rule out existing organizational opportunities
D) finding ways to correct organizational weaknesses
A fully global organization might set up a ________ with a foreign company to create a
new, independent company that produces a specific product.
A) foreign subsidiary
B) franchise
C) licensing agreement
D) joint venture
In a short essay, identify all of the stakeholders in a typical apparel company such as the
Gap and rank them in terms of importance.
In a short essay, discuss how emotional intelligence (EI) affects leadership.
In a short essay, explain why what managers choose to measure can be more important
than how they measure in the control process.
In a short essay, explain the type of strategy that an optimistic manager would take for
her company.
In a short essay, discuss the performance-simulation test as a selection device for HRM.
In a short essay, define and describe operations management.
