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Gen Y individuals tend to be comfortable with new types of electronic technology.
Direct supervision is the best-known form of concurrent control.
Most U.S. employees are excited about their jobs.
When information is passed to senior level managers, it is usually edited and filtered to
put the speaker in the best possible light.
The sociocultural component of the external environment of an organization includes
trends and traditions, but not basic attitudes and values.
The goals of organizational behavior (OB) are to explain, predict, and document
behavior.
A manager who takes very little time to make a decision probably has the trait of
________.
A) high self-esteem
B) external locus of control
C) low self-monitoring
D) high risk-taking
To find out how many activities are taking place at a given time in a Gantt chart,
________.
A) read across a single row
B) read down a single column
C) count the total number of bars
D) count the total number of actual progress bars
The Industrial Revolution is largely credited with ushering in the birth of ________.
A) the corporation
B) fair pay for workers
C) craftsmanship
D) fair treatment for workers
The control management function ensures that ________ in an organization.
A) goals are set
B) goals are met
C) plans are made
D) plans are realistic
Traditional career development programs of the past focused on helping an employee
advance ________.
A) through a series of jobs for different organizations
B) by holding a single job in a single organization
C) by holding a series of jobs in a single organization
D) by changing jobs every two years without fail
One of the common characteristics of all organizations is ________ that define(s) rules,
regulations, and values of the organization.
A) a set of written bylaws
B) an explicit goal
C) a systematic structure
D) a stated purpose
This payoff matrix gives potential dollar gain values in thousands for strategies S1, S2,
S3, and S4 for Sam's Pizza and competitive strategies CA1, CA2, and CA3 for Pam's
Pizza. If Sam chooses S3, how is he feeling about the business climate?
A) Sam is feeling pessimistic because he has chosen a maximax strategy.
B) Sam is feeling pessimistic because he has chosen a minimax strategy.
C) Sam is feeling optimistic because he has chosen a maximax strategy.
D) Sam is feeling optimistic because he has chosen a maximin strategy.
The "two-pizza" rule holds that work teams should ________.
A) include a homogeneous group of people who all like just one or two kinds of pizza
B) be small enough to be fed by two pizzas
C) have 16 people or 2 eight-slice pizzas
D) always have two alternatives when they make a decision
Setting goals definitely seems to ________.
A) increase performance and motivation
B) increase motivation but not performance
C) decrease performance but increase motivation
D) decrease motivation and performance
A(n) ________ view of ethics states that more productive workers should get more pay
and less productive workers less pay, regardless of other circumstances.
A) rights
B) utilitarian
C) theory of justice
D) individual liberties
Which of the following would a self-managed work team be LEAST likely to do?
A) select all projects it works on
B) make decisions
C) implement decisions it makes
D) assign tasks
Planning gives organizations direction that primarily helps them ________.
A) improve teamwork and coordinate activities
B) improve their image in the business community
C) improve morale of middle managers
D) improve morale of all employees
Which of the following will a "ready-aim-fire" culture tend to do with plans for
building a new factory?
A) carefully study the plans before building
B) get the building process underway before the plans are finished in order to avoid
possible objections to expansion
C) briefly study the plans before building
D) carry out the planning and building process simultaneously to make sure that the
plans are updated continuously
