Culture multiple choice questions

Question: The Americans with Disabilities Act requires employers to ______.

Answer Options:

give applicants with physical or mental disabilities the same consideration for employment as people without disabilities.

hire all qualified persons with disabilities.

hire all qualified persons with disabilities who apply.

all of the answers are correct

Answer: give applicants with physical or mental disabilities the same consideration for employment as people without disabilities.

Question: Because she beat her goal this year by nearly 40 percent, Jane has been telling everyone in the sales department of her incredible skill as a salesperson. But last year when she didn’t even reach her goal, she said her failure was due to the poor economy. Jane provides an example of ______.

Answer Options:

fundamental attribution bias

a self-fulfilling prophecy

self-serving bias

selective perception error.

the halo effect.

Answer: self-serving bias

Question: All are steps to the strategic human resource management process EXCEPT:

Answer Options:

Orient, train, and develop

Perform a job analysis

Establish the grand strategy

Formulate the strategic plans

Answer: Establish the grand strategy

Question: The ______ enforces procedures whereby employees may vote to have a union and for collective bargaining.

Answer Options:

Fair Labor Standards Act

EEOC

NLRB

OSHA

Answer: NLRB

Question: A job description describes the minimum qualifications a person must have to perform the job successfully.

Answer Options:

True

False

Answer: False

Question: How are values different from attitudes?

Answer Options:

Values are a learned predisposition toward an object.

Values are consistent over time.

Values have three components.

Values are directed toward specific objects.

Values directly influence our behavior.

Answer: Values are consistent over time.

Question: Which of Edgar Schein’s common elements unifies employees and gives everyone an understanding of the organization’s reason for being?

Answer Options:

hierarchy of authority

coordinated effort

division of labor

span of control

common purpose

Answer: common purpose

Question: Bill is the new CEO at World’s Fair, a nationwide store that specializes in unique items from around the world. At his first managers meeting, he told them he likes to think of his management style as practical, efficient, logical, and systematic. Which style of decision maker is Bill?

Answer Options:

conceptual style

directive style

value style

behavioral style

Answer: directive style

Question: Olivia, the owner of The Town Gazette, a small city newspaper, started her business two years ago, believing that there was still enough demand for her product. However, because people are busy and because so much news is now available online, she has seen the demand for her paper drop steadily. Olivia made a decision to change the original direction of the company and focus more on an internet news service. Olivia is relying on ______ by demonstrating that managers need to think and act as if their company is an unfinished prototype, and by seeing her business as outsiders do.

Answer Options:

intuition

the knee-jerk reaction theory

evidence-based decision making

a knowledge dilemma

a decision tree

Answer: evidence-based decision making

Question: Doreen, a project manager, has been given a limited amount of money to run the new marketing project. The new product marketing campaign needs to be finished and ready to roll out in less than two weeks. Doreen is feeling very limited by these constraints and is not sure that it will produce her team’s best work. Her supervisor and career mentor, tells Doreen that she is ______.

Answer Options:

feeling the effects of the intuition model

using rational decision making

experiencing satisficing

affected by bounded rationality.

Answer: affected by bounded rationality.

Question: At his review last year, Lucas was promised a 20 percent raise if he met his production goals. Raises were included in today’s paychecks, and although Lucas has met all of his goals, he received only a cost-of-living raise. In the future, Lucas’s will probably be .

Answer Options:

expectancy; high

valence; low

expectancy; low

instrumentality; high

instrumentality; low

Answer: instrumentality; low

Question: Siddon, owner of Jacuzzi Warehouse, said, “We have to focus on our customers and how we can beat the competition, so we have to be flexible.” He encourages his R&D department to develop innovative products and focuses on being quick to respond to market changes. Jacuzzi Warehouse has a(n) _______.

Answer Options:

focused approach

adhocracy culture

clan culture

market culture

goal-driven agenda

Answer: adhocracy culture

Question: ______ is the economic or productive potential of employee knowledge, experience, and actions.

Answer Options:

Human resource management

Knowledge worker

Human capital

Social capital

Answer: Human capital

Question: What body of law requires organizations to provide employees with nonhazardous working conditions?

Answer Options:

COBRA

ADA

ADEA

OSHA

Answer: OSHA

Question: An effective source of external recruiting is employee referrals.

Answer Options:

True

False

Answer: True

Question: Job _______ is the process of increasing the number of tasks in a job to increase variety and motivation.

Answer Options:

design

development

enrichment

rotation

enlargement

Answer: enlargement

Question: A _______ is a choice made from among available alternatives.

Answer Options:

Value Statement

Plan

Goal

Decision

Answer: Decision

Question: According to Herzberg, which of the following is an example of a motivating factor?

Answer Options:

supervision

working conditions

the work itself

pay

company policy

Answer: the work itself

Culture multiple choice questions

Question: The Americans with Disabilities Act requires employers to ______.

Question: All are steps to the strategic human resource management process EXCEPT:

Question: The ______ enforces procedures whereby employees may vote to have a union and for collective bargaining.

Question: A job description describes the minimum qualifications a person must have to perform the job successfully.

Question: How are values different from attitudes?

Question: Which of Edgar Schein’s common elements unifies employees and gives everyone an understanding of the organization’s reason for being?

Question: Bill is the new CEO at World’s Fair, a nationwide store that specializes in unique items from around the world. At his first managers meeting, he told them he likes to think of his management style as practical, efficient, logical, and systematic. Which style of decision maker is Bill?

Question: At his review last year, Lucas was promised a 20 percent raise if he met his production goals. Raises were included in today’s paychecks, and although Lucas has met all of his goals, he received only a cost-of-living raise. In the future, Lucas’s ______ will probably be ______.

Question: ______ is the economic or productive potential of employee knowledge, experience, and actions.

Question: What body of law requires organizations to provide employees with nonhazardous working conditions?

Question: An effective source of external recruiting is employee referrals.

Question: Job _______ is the process of increasing the number of tasks in a job to increase variety and motivation.

Question: A _______ is a choice made from among available alternatives.

Question: According to Herzberg, which of the following is an example of a motivating factor?

Question: At his review last year, Lucas was promised a 20 percent raise if he met his production goals. Raises were included in today’s paychecks, and although Lucas has met all of his goals, he received only a cost-of-living raise. In the future, Lucas’s will probably be .