Establishing a formal partnership with a foreign company is a form of international
management.
“In what kind of environment does the organization now exist?” is one of the four basic
questions required for critical question analysis.
Normally, the greater the height of the organization chart, the smaller the span of
management.
Appropriate information for strategic planning decisions is generally not completely
current, but more historical in nature.
Organizations that take the social obligation approach usually achieve higher levels of
social responsiveness than organizations that take the social responsibility approach.
Resistance to change can be lowered by not informing the employees about the change
too early.
The first step in the sequence of activities for the functional similarity method of
dividing job activities is to make individuals responsible for performing jobs.
________ is the act of an employee reporting suspected misconduct or corruption
believed to exist within an organization.
A) Phishing
B) Crowdsourcing
C) Shoulder surfing
D) Pharming
E) Whistle-blowing
________ can be categorized as “outside” stakeholders of an organization.
A) Stockholders
B) Managers
C) Employees
D) Customers
E) Shareholders
Janet is the senior manager of a scientific operations team at a well-known clinical
research organization. The organization delivers more than 3,000 solutions across more
than 15 therapeutic areas. Being a perfectionist, Janet has reached her present position
through hard work and dedication. Given that she has also worked effectively with
teams in the past, she has recently been assigned to lead a team working on a new
project which is critical to the company. Janet refuses to allocate any tasks to her team
and decides to put in extra hours and weekends to complete the ground work herself.
Based on the information presented here, which of the following would best explain
this contradiction?
A) Janet feels that delegating project work will be seen as a sign of weakness.
B) Janet feels she will not be able to guide her team well on the project.
C) Janet feels that by delegating work, she will complicate her working relationship
with the team.
D) Janet feels that this project is vital to the team’s success.
E) Janet is reluctant to delegate work as she lacks confidence in her team’s abilities.
The proportion of the total management system that a decision will affect is called the
________.
A) scope of the decision
B) unity of command
C) span of control
D) level of management
E) discretionary area
At Landmark Constructions, crucial projects are handled completely by project
managers who are empowered to borrow marketing, sales, engineering, finance and
R&D staff and other employees from various parts of the organization to complete their
projects. Identify the departmentalization mode being used in this company.
A) customer
B) matrix
C) product
D) geographic
E) functional
Which of the following is a valid observation of management and leadership?
A) Leading is not a part of the influencing function.
B) Leading is synonymous to managing in most cases.
C) Leadership is considered a subset of management.
D) Leading is much broader in scope than managing.
E) Leadership mainly emphasizes non-behavioral issues.
The phenomenon of compromising the quality of a decision to maintain relationships
within a team is referred to as ________.
A) doublethink
B) crowdsourcing
C) brainstorming
D) groupthink
E) scapegoating
Traditionally, management has best helped employees satisfy their ________ needs
through adequate wages or salaries.
A) security and self-actualization
B) physiological and self-actualization
C) social and psychological
D) physiological and security
E) self-actualization and social
Which of the following is a characteristic of the jury of executive opinion method of
sales forecasting?
A) The resulting forecast is a blend of informed opinions.
B) It is a more formal method than the Delphi method.
C) It gives accurate data because the data is collected by the sales people who
continually interact with customers.
D) It utilizes historical data to predict future sales levels.
E) It predicts future sales by analyzing the historical relationship between sales and
time.
________ is the process in which an individual or group of individuals in an existing
corporation create a new organization or instigate renewal or innovation within that
corporation.
A) Corporate social entrepreneurship
B) Intrapreneurship
C) Intrepreneurship
D) Corporate entrepreneurship
E) Social entrepreneurship
The ________ component is that part of the general environment that indicates how
resources are being distributed and used within the environment.
A) social
B) economic
C) political
D) international
E) legal
Which of the following is true regarding Gantt charts?
A) time is plotted on the vertical axis
B) does not provide an overview of the use of organizational resources
C) is essentially a bar graph
D) does not establish realistic worker output standards
E) resource to be scheduled is plotted on the horizontal axis
Long-range planning that focuses on the organization as a whole is ________.
A) operational planning
B) organizational planning
C) strategic planning
D) tactical planning
E) managerial planning
Tests that measure the level of skill or knowledge an individual possesses in a certain
area are called ________.
A) aptitude tests
B) vocational tests
C) achievement tests
D) intelligence tests
E) personality tests
According to Porter, ________ refers to the power that customers have over the firms
operating in an industry.
A) the threat of new entrants
B) buyer power
C) supplier power
D) the threat of substitute products
E) intensity of rivalry