Question: A ________ is a choice made from among available alternatives.
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Answer: Decision
Question: According to Herzberg, which of the following is an example of a motivating factor?
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Answer: the work itself
Question: Organizational culture appears in four layers: clan, adhocracy, market, and hierarchy.
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Answer: False
Question: Sexual harassment that doesn’t risk economic harm but causes an offensive or intimidating work environment is called hostile environment.
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Answer: True
Question: Phones R Us, a global phone company, frequently needs to respond quickly to fast-changing consumer tastes with its smartphones. Therefore, Phones R Us has fewer rules and procedures than most organizations, and networks of employees are encouraged to cooperate and respond quickly to unexpected tasks and changes in technology. Phones R Us is utilizing a(n) ___________ structure.
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Answer: organic
Question: Most vacant job positions in organizations are filled through __________.
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Answer: Internal recruitment
Question: The model of decision making that explains how managers should make decisions, assuming managers will make logical decisions that will be the optimum in furthering the organization’s best interests, is known as the ___________. For example, a manager who uses this model may be personally opposed to outsourcing jobs overseas, but she nonetheless decides to outsource customer-service operations to India because doing so is in the company’s best interests.
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Answer: rational decision-making model
Question: Microsoft Office 2013 CANNOT be installed on a MAC.
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Answer: False
Question: Quizzes make up 35% (or 70.8 out of 200 points) of the total grade.
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Answer: True
Question: At the end of the semester, all deliverables will be combined to create the Business Portfolio.
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Answer: True
Question: The project (or “Business Portfolio”) will be completed individually and is worth 30 points (out of 200 points).
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Answer: True
Question: Students can send an email to the professor anytime they want. These emails will get a response within 24 hours.
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Answer: False
Question: Students are responsible for reading all announcements posted to the course site.
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Answer: True
Question: Students must be courteous and respectful in their communications with the professor. Students should not email anything they wouldn’t say to the professor in a classroom setting.
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Answer: True
Question: All course requirements are individual work.
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Answer: True
Question: Using someone else’s work for any course requirement will result in an “F” in this course.
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Answer: True
Question: Citing a decrease in demand for their service, Twitter reduces the size of its workforce, laying off 350 people. What type of unemployment is this?
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Answer: Cyclical unemployment
Question: GDP was first calculated in the 1930s to help policymakers understand spending patterns and develop policies to help the U.S. get out of the Great Depression.
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Answer: True