FLY Industries is a global conglomerate company headquartered in the United States
that does business in over fifty countries. The company seeks to balance global
efficiencies and local responsiveness by hiring locally as well as from home. It can best
be described as using which global corporate strategy?
a. Globalization strategy
b. Multidomestic strategy
c. Export strategy
d. Transnational strategy
e. Domestic strategy
According to the administrative model of decision making, managers’ searches for
alternatives are limited because of human, information, and resource constraints.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following is NOT a normative ethics approach?
a. Utilitarian approach
b. Individualism approach
c. Social responsibility approach
d. Moral-rights approach
e. All of these are normative approaches as described in the text.
The recommended management style from the leadership grid is _____.
a. 1,9
b. 9,1
c. 5,5
d. 1,1
e. 9,9
Organizational behavior is an interdisciplinary field dedicated to the study of how
individuals and groups tend to act in organizations.
a. True
b. False
From the employer’s viewpoint, which of these is part of new social contract?
a. Standard training programs
b. Limited information
c. Incentive compensation
d. Routine jobs
Organizing defines what to do while strategy defines how to do it.
a. True
b. False
_____ is the last step in the decision making process.
a. Evaluation and feedback
b. Development of alternatives
c. Implementation of chosen alternative
d. Selection of desired requirement
e. Recognition of decision requirement
Examples of unethical behavior toward _____ include a hostile work environment and
violations of health and safety rules.
a. customers b. financiers
c. society d. suppliers
e. employees
The _____ emphasized the importance of understanding human behaviors, needs, and
attitudes in the workplace as well as social interactions and group processes.
a. humanistic perspective
b. classical perspective
c. scientific management
d. bureaucratic organizations
e. contingency perspective
Kara and Simon are both middle managers at Gotcha International. Kara is dissatisfied
because she knows that Simon makes more in salary even though, in Kara’s opinion,
she works longer hours than he does. If Kara wishes to reduce this perceived inequity,
what should she do?
a. She could reduce the number of hours she works.
b. She could increase her level of absenteeism.
c. She could ask for a raise.
d. All of these.
e. Only she could reduce the number of hours she works and she could ask for a raise.
Which of the following is not a step in the organizational planning process?
a. Monitor and learn
b. Plan operations
c. Translate the plan
d. Develop the plan
e. Plan marketing tactics
The Preconventional level of Personal Moral Development lives up to expectations of
others, upholds laws, and fulfills duties and obligations of the social system.
a. True
b. False