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Bernice is a outgoing, assertive, and sociable individual who is very comfortable with
interpersonal relationships.
Which of the following is applicable to Bernice?
a. Machiavellianism
b. Conscientiousness
c. Agreeableness
d. Emotional stability
e. Extroversion
According to the GLOBE Project, gender differentiation refers to the extent to which a
society maximizes gender role differences.
a. True
b. False
Individualism is popular in the highly organized society of today because it supports
immediate self-gain.
a. True
b. False
A venture capital firm wants to invest in businesses with a high rate of return. In return,
they will:
a. invest large amounts of money.
b. provide necessary assistance and advice.
c. provide information to help the entrepreneur prosper.
d. all of these.
e. provide necessary assistance and advice and provide information to help the
entrepreneur prosper only.
Due to the stable environment and lack of technological change, mergers and joint
ventures rarely occur in the U.S.
a. True
b. False
The______ is the individual who is assigned the role of challenging assumptions made
by the group.
a. group gadfly
b. multiple advocate
c. devil's advocate
d. brainstormer
e. inferior member
Which of these is sometimes called negative reinforcement?
a. Avoidance learning
b. Punishment
c. Positive reinforcement
d. Extinction
e. Neutral learning
Vaughn Hager started his one-man consulting business under the name Hager
Associates. The legal structure for the company can best be described as a(n):
a. proprietorship.
b. partnership.
c. trade alliance.
d. corporation.
e. one man operation.
Planning is the act of determining the organization goals and the means for achieving
them.
a. True
b. False
Exit interviews are valuable HR tools only if the departing employee leaves voluntarily.
a. True
b. False
Silver n' Gold Inc. recently introduced a new control philosophy where all employees
have access to the same information that owners have, such as what money is coming in
and where it is going. This is an example of which control philosophy?
a. Balanced scorecard
b. Six Sigma
c. Continuous improvement
d. Total quality management
e. Open-book management
Which of the following means that an organization accommodates several subcultures?
a. Monoculturalism
b. Pluralism
c. Ethnorelativism
d. Geocentricism
e. Ethnocentrism
______is by far the most difficult situation for a decision-maker.
a. Certainty
b. Risk
c. Uncertainty
d. Ambiguity
e. Brainstorming
_____ means that each employee is held accountable to only one supervisor.
a. Scalar principle
b. Unity of command
c. Work specialization
d. Division of labor
e. Span of management
The individual identity includes which of the following?
a. Generalist, coordinates diverse tasks
b. Gets things done through others
c. Works relatively independently
d. A network builder
e. Works in highly interdependent manner
A significant contribution of Chester Barnard was the concept of:
a. bureaucracy.
b. the informal organization.
c. total quality management.
d. scientific management.
e. traditional theory of authority.
List the three guidelines of innovative group decision-making in today's businesses.
______ is defined as the adoption of a new idea or behavior by an organization.
An alternative for assigning divisional responsibility is to group company activities
by______.
Describe the four elements that enable employees to become empowered.
_______is the name given to the set of techniques by which reinforcement theory is
used to modify human behavior.
_______ is the process of identifying problems and opportunities and then resolving
them.
