MGMT 301 Midterm 1, 3-7 – Flashcards

When a manager choose inappropriate goals, but makes good use of resources to pursue these goals, it usually results in:

which of the following questions would an organization use to gauge the efficiency of a process?

establishing accurate measuring and monitoring systems to evaluate how well the organization has achieved its goal is part of the ___ task of management

____ are responsible for the daily supervision of non-managerial employees

which of the following is true of first line managers?

which of the following best describes conceptual skills?

downsizing an organization by eliminating the jobs of large numbers of top, middle, and first-line managers and non-managerial employees is called ____

which of the following best describes outsourcing?

___ refers to the creation of a new vision for a struggling company using a new approach to planning and organizing to make better use of a company's resources to allow it to survive and eventually prosper

which of the following best describes the technique of empowerment?

___ are responsible for using a company's financial, capital, and human resources to increase its performance

according to the utilitarian rule of decision making, an ethical decision is one that:

the __ describes an ethical decision as one that a a mangaer has no hesitation or reluctance about communicating to people outside the company

which of the following statements is true about societal ethics?

the influence of family, peers and upbringing in general, are sources of ___ ethics

the title VII of the civil rights act of 1964:

in the management of organizational diversity, the function of a disseminator is to:

in a decisional managerial role, the job of committing resources to develop new ways to effectively manage diversity is done by the:

which of the following is a function of a disseminator in promoting diversity within an organization?

which of the following is an example of quid pro quo sexual harassment?

___ refers to the set of forces and conditions that originate with global suppliers, distributors, customers, and competitors; that affect an organization's ability to obtain inputs and dispose of its outputs

which of the following is likely to be part of the general environment of a firm rather than its task environment

___ occurs when a company contracts with suppliers in other countries to make the various inputs or components that go into its products or to assemble the final products to reduce costs

the function of a distributor is to

a(n) ___ is a tax that a government imposes on goods imported into one country from another

__ forces refer to outcomes of changes in the characteristics of a population such as age, gender, ethnic origin, race, sexual orientation, and social class

which of the following best describes folkways?

according to Hofstede's model of national culture, which of the following is true of high power distance societies?

which of the following is a characteristics of low power distance societies rather than high power distance societies?

societies that have a(n) ___ are describes as those that value assertiveness, performance, success, competition, and results

which of the following is most likely to be a nonprogrammed decision for an organization?

which of the following is an assumption on which the classical model of decision making is based?

the term __ describes the situation in which the number of alternatives a manager must identify is so great and the amount of information so vast that its difficult for the manager to even come close to evaluating it all before making a decision

which of the following is the best example of groupthink?

jean is part of the product development team at manic toys. at a product development session, her team leader tells her to be the devil's advocate. this means that jean must:

according to peter senge, for organizational learning to occur, top managers must:

which among the following statements is true of brainstorming?

___ occurs because group members cannot always simultaneously make sense of all the alternatives being generated, think up additional alternatives, and remember what they were thinking during a brainstorming session

___ is a decision making process in which group members do not meet face to face but respond in writing to questions posed by the group leader

which of the following best describes project champion?

according to henry fayol, an effective plan possesses accuracy, which means that

a ___ contains divisional managers' decisions pertaining to division's long term goals, overall strategy, and structure

__ plans are developed to handle non-programmed decision making in unusual or one of a kind situations

according to michael porter's five forces model, industry profits are less likely to be low when

which of the following strategies refers to serving just one or a few segments of the market with the aim of making the organization the most differentiated company serving that segment?

which of the following is an example of backward vertical integration?

__ involves expanding a company's operations either backward into an industry that produces inputs for its products or forward into an industry that uses, distributes. or sells its products

which of the following best describes unrelates diversification

a decision to adopt a multi-domestic strategy indicated that the mangers of a company:

when managers decide to establish a wholly owned foreign subsidiary they:

which of the following is most characteristic of tasks involving non routine or complicated technologies?

__ is the process of increasing the degree of responsibility a worker has over a job

the degree to which a job gives an employee the freedom and discretion needed to schedule different tasks and decide how to carry them out is called ___

which of the following best describes task significance?

in a ___ organization structure, people who perform similar jobs are grouped together so they they can learn from observing one another

which of the following statements is true of a product structure?

which of the following statements is true of a product team structure?

top managers at rebus systems are the opinion that the company's organization structure is too tall, which slows innovation and creativity. in order to create a flatter organization structure, the company must

a ___ is a series of global strategic alliances that one or more several organizations create with suppliers, manufacturers, and/or distributors to produce and market a product

a company-specific informations system that systematizes the information possessed by its employees and provides them with access to other employees who have the expertise to solve the problems is called a(n)