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Which of the following is a key difference between managerial and nonmanagerial
employees?
A) Managerial employees receive higher pay compensation.
B) Nonmanagerial employees have less formal education.
C) Nonmanagerial employees do not oversee the work of others.
D) Managerial employees work longer hours.
Which of the following defines the time frame of a long-term plan?
A) over seven years
B) over three years
C) under three years
D) over one year
A NASCAR race car driver would be a good occupational match for which personality
type?
A) risk averse
B) risk taker
C) low Mach
D) low self-esteem
Which of the following is NOT allowed in a brainstorming session?
A) clear definition of the problem
B) criticism or dismissal of poor ideas
C) large number of alternatives
D) recording of all alternatives
In equity theory, an underrewarded individual is likely to ________.
A) have high motivation to show his or her value to the organization
B) lack motivation because he or she does not receive enough reward for what he or she
does
C) have just the right motivation to get the job done
D) have high motivation due to high self-esteem
Workers in a company are complaining about a new employee evaluation system.
Which kind of resistance to change are they demonstrating?
A) resistance out of habit
B) resistance because of uncertainty
C) resistance to protect company goals
D) resistance to protect market share
The decision of the Seattle Post Intelligencer newspaper to go "all-digital" resulted in
________.
A) managers needing to hire new employees
B) managers needing to drastically reduce their workforce
C) no workforce changes, but changes in the price of the paper
D) very few changes in the way the paper did business
Controlling is the ________ in the management process.
A) first step
B) final step
C) most important step
D) least important step
Neural networks differ from expert systems in that they can ________.
A) draw conclusions from data
B) ask questions to the decision maker
C) perform sophisticated calculations
D) learn from experience
What fraction of U.S. employees do personal website surfing every day?
A) less than one-quarter
B) slightly less than half
C) more than half
D) almost all
Studies of performance in organizations that plan have reached ________ with respect
to the benefits of formal planning.
A) somewhat negative conclusions
B) no conclusion
C) extremely negative conclusions
D) generally positive conclusions
Value is created during the process of ________.
A) inputs being converted into outputs
B) inputs being stored
C) outputs being measured
D) operations being controlled
Stress is most frequently associated with ________ only.
A) demands and constraints
B) opportunities and habits
C) opportunities and fear
D) demands and pressures
This "behavior" is really an attitude.
A) job satisfaction
B) turnover
C) workplace misbehavior
D) employee productivity
Which of the following is a primary characteristic of groupthink?
A) conflict among group members
B) failure to reach consensus within a group
C) complete conformity among group members
D) candidness and openness within a group
Equity exists when one's own outcomes-to-input ratio ________ that of the referent.
A) is greater than
B) is less than
C) is equal to
D) is greater than or less than
Health insurance is an example of which of the following?
A) compensation
B) employee benefit
C) salary
D) wages
________ is the process of organizing and interpreting sensory impressions to give
meaning to the environment.
A) Attribution
B) Selection
C) Learning
D) Perception
Taylor began to develop his theory of ________ after a result of viewing workers in
steel companies.
A) the functions of management
B) ethics-based management
C) management skills
D) scientific management
