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Exploring Management
2. A person with a/an personality would most likely act unemotional and manipulative when trying to infl uence others to achieve personal goals.(a) extroverted(b) sensation-thinking(c)
3. When a person tends to believe that he or she has little infl uence over things that happen in life, this indicates a/an personality.(a) low emotional stability(b) external locus of control(c)
5. A new team leader who designs jobs for persons on her work team mainly “because I would prefer to work the new way rather than the old,” is committing a perceptual error known as.(a) the halo
6. If a manager allows one characteristic of a person—say, a pleasant personality—to bias performance ratings of that individual overall, the manager is falling prey to a perceptual distortion
7. Use of special dress, manners, gestures, and vocabulary words when meeting a prospective employer in a job interview are all examples of how people use in daily life.(a) the halo eff ect(b)
10. Th e component of an attitude is what indicates a person’s belief about something, while the component indicates a specifi c positive or negative feeling about it.(a) cognitive; aff ective(b)
11. Th e term for the discomfort someone feels when his or her behavior turns is inconsistent with a previously expressed attitude is .(a) alienation(b) cognitive dissonance(c) job dissatisfaction(d)
12. Job satisfaction is known from research to be a strong predictor of .(a) job performance (b) job burnout(c) conscientiousness (d) absenteeism
15. Th e critical contingency variable in the Hersey-Blanchard situational model of leadership is.(a) follower maturity(b) LPC(c) task structure(d) emotional intelligence
16. Why are both position power and personal power essential in management?
19. How do you sum up in two or three sentences the notion of servant leadership?
20. When Marcel Henry took over as leader of a new product development team, he was both excited and apprehensive.“I wonder,” he said to himself on the fi rst day in his new assignment, “if I
Short for Statistical Analysis System, SAS is a set of integrated software tools that help decision makers cope with unwieldy amounts of unrelated data. It’s the primary product of North
1. Is cognitive dissonance a good or bad infl uence on us?
1. Among the Big Five personality traits, indicates someone who tends to be responsible, dependable, and careful in respect to tasks.(a) authoritarian(b) agreeable(c) conscientious(d) emotionally
2. A person with a/an personality would most likely act unemotional and manipulative when trying to infl uence others to achieve personal goals.(a) extroverted(b) sensation-thinking(c)
3. When a person tends to believe that he or she has little infl uence over things that happen in life, this indicates a/an personality.(a) low emotional stability(b) external locus of control(c)
5. A new team leader who designs jobs for persons on her work team mainly “because I would prefer to work the new way rather than the old,” is committing a perceptual error known as.(a) the halo
6. If a manager allows one characteristic of a person—say, a pleasant personality—to bias performance ratings of that individual overall, the manager is falling prey to a perceptual distortion
7. Use of special dress, manners, gestures, and vocabulary words when meeting a prospective employer in a job interview are all examples of how people use in daily life.(a) the halo eff ect(b)
10. Th e component of an attitude is what indicates a person’s belief about something, while the component indicates a specifi c positive or negative feeling about it.(a) cognitive; aff ective(b)
11. Th e term for the discomfort someone feels when his or her behavior turns is inconsistent with a previously expressed attitude is .(a) alienation(b) cognitive dissonance(c) job dissatisfaction(d)
12. Job satisfaction is known from research to be a strong predictor of .(a) job performance (b) job burnout(c) conscientiousness (d) absenteeism
16. What is the most positive profi le of Big Five personality traits in terms of positive impact on work behavior?
17. What is the relationship between personality and stress?
18. How does the halo eff ect diff er from selective perception?
19. If you were going to develop a job satisfaction survey, exactly what would you try to measure?
20. When Scott Tweedy picked up a magazine article on “How to Manage Health Care Workers,” he was pleased to fi nd some apparent advice. Scott was concerned about poor performance by several of
Social networking websites are a dime a dozen these days, so how does Facebook stay at the top? By expanding its user base and working with developers and advertisers to create fresh content that
2. Is high need for achievement always good for managers?
3. Why can’t job enrichment work for everyone?
2. Lower-order needs in Maslow’s hierarchy correspond to needs in ERG theory.(a) growth (b) affi liation(c) existence (d) achievement
3. A worker high in need for power in McClelland’s theory tries to use power for the good of the organization.(a) position (b) expert(c) personal (d) social
4. In the theory of motivation, an individual who feels underrewarded relative to a co-worker might be expected to reduce his or her work eff orts in the future.(a) ERG (b) acquired needs(c)
6. In Herzberg’s two-factor theory, base pay is considered a/an factor.(a) hygiene (b) satisfi er(c) equity (d) higher-order
7. Th e expectancy theory of motivation says that Motivation Expectancy Instrumentality .(a) Rewards(b) Valence(c) Equity(d) Growth
8. When a team member shows strong ego needs in Maslow’s hierarchy, the team leader should fi nd ways to link this person’s work with .(a) compensation tied to team performance(b) individual
9. When someone has a high and positive “expectancy”in expectancy theory of motivation, this means that the person .(a) believes he can achieve performance expectations(b) highly values the
(d) believes rewards are equitable
11. When a job allows a person to do a complete unit of work, it is high on which core characteristic?(a) task identity (b) task signifi cance(c) task autonomy (d) feedback
14. Th e premise of reinforcement theory is:(a) behavior is a function of environment(b) motivation comes from positive expectancy(c) higher-order needs stimulate hard work(d) rewards considered
15. Both Barry and Marissa are highly motivated students.Knowing this, I can expect them to be .(a) hard working (b) high performing(c) highly satisfi ed (d) highly dissatisfi ed
16. What preferences does a person high in the need for achievement bring to the workplace?
17. How can a team leader use goal-setting theory in working with individual team members?
18. What are three ways a worker might react to perceived negative inequity over a pay raise?
19. How can shaping be used to encourage desirable work behaviors?
Panera’s success has come partly from its ability to predict long-term trends and orient the company toward innovation to fulfi ll consumers’ desires. Its self-perception as a purveyor of artisan
3. Why do people in teams often tolerate social loafers?
1. What happens if a team can’t get past the storming stage?
1. occurs when a group of people is able to achieve more than its members could by working individually.(a) Distributed leadership(b) Consensus(c) Team viability(d) Synergy
3. An eff ective team is defi ned as one that achieves high levels of task performance, high member satisfaction, and .(a) resource effi ciency(b) team viability(c) group consensus(d) creativity
4. In the open-systems model of teams, the is an important input factor.(a) communication network(b) decision-making method(c) performance norm(d) diversity of membership
5. A basic rule of team dynamics might be stated this way: Th e greater the in a team, the greater the conformity to norms.(a) membership diversity(b) cohesiveness(c) task clarity(d) competition
7. Members of a team become more motivated and better able to deal with confl ict during the stage of team development.(a) forming(b) norming(c) performing(d) adjourning
10. One way for a manager to build positive norms within a team is to __________.(a) act as a positive role model(b) increase group size(c) introduce groupthink(d) isolate the teamx
12. A decision is one in which all members agree on the course of action to be taken.(a) consensus(b) unanimous(c) majority(d) synergy
14. When people are highly cooperative but not very assertive in a confl ict situation, the likelihood is that they will be using which confl ict management style?(a) avoidance(b) authoritative(c)
15. Th e interpersonal confl ict management style with the greatest potential for true confl ict resolution is.(a) compromise(b) competition(c) avoidance(d) collaboration
16. What are the major diff erences among a task force, an employee involvement group, and a self-managing team?
17. How can a manager infl uence team performance by modifying group inputs?
18. How do cohesiveness and performance norms together infl uence team performance?
19. What are two symptoms of groupthink and two possible remedies for them?
20. Mariel Espinoza has just been appointed manager of a production team operating the 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift in a large manufacturing fi rm. An experienced manager, Mariel is pleased that the team
Pixar’s movies—including the Toy Story movies, Th e Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, and Up—have succeeded largely because Pixar has focused on employing computer graphics (CG) technology to
2. Can you describe a work situation where it’s okay to accept less communication eff ectiveness in order to gain communication effi ciency?
5. When the intended meaning of the sender and the interpreted meaning of the receiver are the same, communication is .(a) eff ective (b) persuasive(c) passive (d) effi cient
7. How can a manager build credibility for persuasive communications?(a) Make sure rewards for compliance with requests are clear.(b) Make sure penalties for noncompliance with requests are clear.(c)
11. A/An is higher in channel richness than a/an .(a) memo; voice-mail(b) letter; video conference(c) instant message; e-mail(d) voice mail; telephone conversation
13. A manager who understands the infl uence of proxemics in communication is likely to.(a) avoid sending mixed messages(b) arrange work spaces to encourage interaction(c) be very careful choosing
16. What is the goal of active listening?
17. Why do managers sometimes make bad decisions based on information received from their subordinates?
18. What are four errors managers might make when trying to give constructive feedback to others?
19. How does ethnocentrism infl uence cross-cultural communication?
20. Glenn was recently promoted to be the manager of a new store being opened by a large department store chain.He wants to start out right by making sure that communications are always good between
Whether or not you tweet, there’s no denying that Twitter’s having a profound eff ect on the way we communicate with each other and the outside world.Is the popular microblogging service
• People can experience culture shock due to the discomfort experienced in crosscultural situations.
• Cultural intelligence is an individual capacity to understand, respect, and adapt to cultural diff erences.
• Hall’s silent languages of culture include the role of context in communication, time orientation, and use of interpersonal space.
• Hofstede’s fi ve dimensions of value diff erences in national cultures are power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism-collectivism, masculinity-femininity, and time orientation.
• Countries tend to fall into culture clusters, with cultures more similar within than across the clusters.
2. When members of minority cultures feel that they have to behave similar to the ways of the majority culture, this tendency is called .(a) biculturalism(b) particularism(c) the glass ceiling eff
6. means that an organization fully integrates members of minority cultures and majority cultures.(a) Equal employment opportunity(b) Affi rmative action(c) Symbolic leadership(d) Pluralism
9. When dealing with proxemics as a silent language of culture, what is the issue of most concern?(a) How people use the spoken word to communicate.(b) How people use nonverbal to communicate.(c) How
16. What is the diff erence between valuing diversity and managing diversity?
17. How can subculture diff erences create diversity challenges in organizations?
19. In what ways can the power distance dimension of national culture become an important issue in management?
20. A friend in West Virginia owns a small manufacturing fi rm employing about 50 workers. His son spent a semester in Japan as an exchange student. Upon return, he said to his dad: “Boy, the
Toyota’s success in the American auto market is no accident.Th e company has used strategies honed since the 1950s to earn and retain customer satisfaction by producing superior vehicles within a
2. When Rocky Brands bought 70% ownership of a manufacturing company in the Dominican Republic, Rocky was engaging in which form of international business?(a) import/export(b) licensing(c) foreign
3. When Limited Brands buys cotton in Egypt and has pants sewn from it in Sri Lanka according to designs made in Italy and then sells the pants in the United States, this is a form of international
6. One major diff erence between an international business and a transnational corporation is that the transnational tries to operate ____________.(a) without a strong national identity(b) in at
7. Th e Foreign Corrupt Practices Act makes it illegal for ____________.(a) U.S. businesses to work with subcontractors running foreign sweatshop operations(b) foreign businesses to pay bribes to
8. Th e World Trade Organization, or WTO, would most likely become involved in disputes between countries over ____________.(a) exchange rates(b) ethnocentrism(c) nationalization(d) tariff s and
11. If a new government comes into power and seizes all foreign assets in the country without any payments to the owners, the loss to foreign fi rms is considered a ____________ risk of international
15. Which country is often called “the factory for the world”?(a) China(b) Germany(c) Brazil(d) United States
16. What is the diff erence between a joint venture and a wholly owned subsidiary?
17. List three reasons why host countries sometimes complain about MNCs.
18. What does it mean in an international business sense if a U.S. senator says she favors “protectionism”?
19. What is the diff erence between currency risk and political risk in international business?
20. Picture yourself sitting in a discussion group at the local bookstore and proudly signing copies of your newly published book, Business Transitions in the New Global Economy. A book buyer invites
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