Question: Productive resources include ________.
Answer Choices:
land, labor, and services
goodwill, entrepreneurship, and goods
labor, goods, and services
land, capital, and labor
Answer: land, capital, and labor
Question: Which of the following people do NOT represent an example of a front-line manager?
Answer Choices:
Sari, officer manager at Surrey Texts, a very large publisher
Nathaniel, director of the Best Little Gym’s accounts payable department
May, chief operating officer at Yula, a small company that makes candles
Susan, a crew chief for Sydney AirAsia
Answer: May, chief operating officer at Yula, a small company that makes candles
Question: The ________ dictates that leaders should adapt their style in response to how prepared their audience is to follow them.
Answer Choices:
Hersey and Blanchard Situational Leadership Model
Fiedler Contingency Model
Attribution Model
University of Michigan Leadership Model
Answer: Hersey and Blanchard Situational Leadership Model
Question: If a star’s degenerate core is greater than about ______ then nothing can stop the core from collapsing forever.
Answer Choices:
a bread box
3 solar-masses
1.4 solar-masses
the speed of light
2.1 solar-masses
Answer: 3 solar-masses
Question: What event heralded the onset of behavioral theories of leadership in the United States?
Answer Choices:
The Korean War
World War I
The Vietnam War
The Great Depression
Answer: World War I
Question: All of the following are examples of a government’s economic allocation function EXCEPT ________.
Answer Choices:
building public highways
subsidizing wheat farmers
taxing alcohol and tobacco
providing criminal penalties
Answer: providing criminal penalties
Question: All of the following factors increase group cohesion EXCEPT
Answer Choices:
the presence of an outside threat
member interdependence
member heterogeneity
high status
Answer: member heterogeneity
Question: True or False? Fee-for-service is a form of payment whereby an individual pays a fixed, pre-specified amount in exchange for services.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: False
Question: Human resource management involves all of the following functions EXCEPT
Answer Choices:
budgeting
job design
recruiting
workplace safety
Answer: budgeting
Question: Elissa is a mediator whose job is to arbitrate negotiations between unions and corporations. What kind of power does Elissa have?
Answer Choices:
boundary-spanning power
referent power
closeness over production
tactical power
Answer: boundary-spanning power
Question: Which of the following individuals would most likely NOT be considered a group’s gatekeeper?
Answer Choices:
Jim, who is informally regarded as the group’s leader
Gary, who is always willing to express the group’s values
Karl who helps carry out the group’s activities
Joan, who is a “member in good standing”
Answer: Jim, who is informally regarded as the group’s leader
Question: Which of the following is a critical question to ask when assessing potential team members?
Answer Choices:
A. Do they have the knowledge, skills, and disposition to do the job at hand?
B. Do they bring good snacks to the meetings?
C. Do you know them?
D. Does your boss know their bosses?
E. All of these are correct.
Answer: A. Do they have the knowledge, skills, and disposition to do the job at hand?
Question: Because human capacity to accurately process large amounts of information is limited, how do people compensate?
Answer Choices:
A. Through the use of groupthink.
B. With socio-cognitive intelligence.
C. With simplified rules called heuristics.
D. By using systems designed to correct their cognitive limitations.
E. By using computers in decision making.
Answer: C. With simplified rules called heuristics.
Question: An organization’s mission is defined as its:
Answer Choices:
A. purpose
B. goals
C. desired future state
D. ownership
E. values
Answer: A. purpose
Question: As a feature of demand for labor, which of the following scenarios offers the best example of derived demand?
Answer Choices:
A decline in the demand for movie tickets causes a decline in the demand for ushers.
A decline in the demand for movie tickets causes a decrease in the demand for popcorn.
An increase in the demand for movie tickets causes an increase in the demand for movies.
An increase in the demand for movie tickets causes an increase in the price of tickets.
Answer: A decline in the demand for movie tickets causes a decline in the demand for ushers.
Question: Two formulas of the Categorical Imperative are
Answer Choices:
The Formula of Humanity and the Formula of Consequences
The Formula of Universal Law and the Formula of Duty
The Formula of Humanity and the Formula of Universal Law
The Formula of Universal Law and the Formula of Proportional Punishment
Answer: The Formula of Humanity and the Formula of Universal Law
Question: Social facility does not include which of the following?
Answer Choices:
A. Sensing nonverbal emotions
B. Influence
C. Synchrony
D. Concern
E. Self-presentation
Answer: A. Sensing nonverbal emotions
Question: General Sales Inc. has an organizational hierarchy in which employees who wish to advance must do so progressively, moving up the corporate ladder from one job title to the next. In this organization, ________ will often influence an employee’s rank, responsibility, and pay.
Answer Choices:
seniority
talent
personality
Answer: seniority
Question: Before establishing her own dentist office, Dr. Thornton evaluates other dentist services in the area. What element of a SWOT analysis would other dentist services most closely represent?
Answer Choices:
strength
weakness
opportunity
threat
Answer: threat
Question: What does an economist suggest that efficient allocation of resources by the market means?
Answer Choices:
Every individual who wants a product gets it.
Producers determine what to produce, and consumers buy it.
The products desired by a society are produced.
Answer: The products desired by a society are produced.