Providing motivation is part of the controlling function of management.
Team leadership is becoming less important in today’s world because teams don’t need
leaders.
Long-term stability and the long-term ability to make profits is an argument for social
responsibility.
In Japan, managers use formal communication to seek consensus.
Deciding who will be assigned to which job is a part of the leading function of
management.
Henry Gantt’s contribution to management theory was to develop efficient ways to
schedule.
In the norming stage of group development, the group becomes cohesive.
A person who is risk-averse might do well as a stock trader.
Programmed decisions tend to be routine.
Classical conditioning can explain why a visit from headquarter managers is associated
with activities such as cleaning and rearranging at a local outlet of a retail company.
Identifying opportunity is not a trait of a person with a proactive personality.
In a decision tree, each possible outcome ________.
A) gets assigned a probability value between 0 and 1.0
B) gets assigned a probability value of 50 percent
C) gets assigned a probability value between 0 and 50 percent
D) gets assigned a probability value between 0.5 and 1.0
In order for a value chain to function successfully, different partners in the chain must
________.
A) have trust in one another
B) compete with one another
C) distrust one another
D) like one another
What does Fiedler’s least-preferred coworker questionnaire measure?
A) the most common leadership style among all leaders
B) leadership style of respondents who took the test
C) the most effective leadership style
D) the least effective leadership style
The JCM contends that ________ are required in meaningful work.
A) skill variety, task identity, and task significance
B) skill variety, autonomy, and feedback
C) task identity, autonomy, and feedback
D) task significance, autonomy, and feedback
Which statement best summarizes the relationship between success and luck?
A) All successes depend partly on luck.
B) Most successes depend totally on luck.
C) Success has nothing to do with luck.
D) Luck seldom has anything to do with success.
How does the Apache Corp. communicate its attitude toward risk taking to its
employees?
A) through actions that reward risk taking and initiative
B) through actions that discourage risk taking and initiative
C) through written policies and rules that reward risk taking and initiative
D) through written policies and rules that discourage risk taking and initiative
According to Herzberg, when an extremely dissatisfied employee gets an improved
salary and working conditions, he or she ________.
A) becomes more motivated and more satisfied
B) becomes less motivated and less satisfied
C) becomes more dissatisfied, and his or her motivation increases
D) becomes less dissatisfied, and his or her motivation is unaffected
A problem with the theories of both Maslow and McGregor is that they ________.
A) made no intuitive sense
B) focused exclusively on fear as a motivating factor
C) were never questioned by researchers
D) were never supported by empirical research
This is one thing that global teams usually fail to attain.
A) team cohesiveness
B) consensus
C) team goals
D) organizational goals
Which of the following would be LEAST likely to be true of two random people of the
same ethnicity?
A) They speak the same language.
B) They celebrate the same holidays.
C) They belong to the same socioeconomic class.
D) They like the same kinds of foods.
All of the following are threats to a sustainable, long-term competitive advantage
EXCEPT ________.
A) market stability
B) market instabilities and disturbances
C) evolution of the industry
D) new technology in the industry
In a short essay, describe a good way for an entrepreneur to motivate his or her
employees.
Explain the phrase “demographics is destiny” and give an example of this idea in
today’s world.
In a short essay, discuss off-the-job training methods.
In a short essay, describe how an entrepreneur is like a jazz band leader.
Explain how career planning is typically done today.
In a short essay, describe a real or fictional company that exists in cell 4 of the
environmental uncertainty matrix.