Question: Which if the following is NOT one of the items on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?
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Answer: Tertiary
Question: A local bakery advertises to have “Tampa’s Best Blueberry Muffin” even though they have never won a contest or have been given any type of official title. Which description best fits the bakery’s actions?
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Answer: Unethical
Question: Don works diligently to accomplish the company goals in an efficient and effective manner, utilizing its resources through planning, organizing, leading, and controlling company resources. Don is ______.
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Answer: managing
Question: ABC Manufacturing employs some of the top professionals in its field. Their employees’ skills and experience help them to be highly efficient and to outperform its competitors. ABC Manufacturing has a(n) ______ over its competition.
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Answer: competitive advantage
Question: Mark, vice president of human resources at Executive Corporation, is a(n) ______. Choose the best answer.
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Answer: upper-level manager
Question: ______ is the discipline concerned with creating computer systems that simulate human reasoning and sensation.
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Answer: Artificial intelligence
Question: According to management scholar Henry Mintzberg, which three roles do managers play?
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Answer: interpersonal, informational and decisional
Question: The idea that two or more forces combined create an effect that is greater than the sum of their individual effects is called _____________.
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Answer: Synergy
Question: Amy is a package delivery service manager. She is interested in implementing ____________, the management philosophy pioneered by Frederick W. Taylor and Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, which scientifically studies work methods to improve the productivity of individual workers. In this particular case, Amy will study the routes that drivers take through a congested city in order to identify ways that delivery staff can make the most deliveries in each two-hour period.
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Answer: scientific management
Question: According to the BCG Matrix, what has low anticipated growth rate and low market share?
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Answer: Dogs
Question: Operations management focuses on managing the production and delivery of an organization’s products or services _____________.
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Answer: more effectively.
Question: The employees of a production facility that produce parts for boats are meeting to discuss ways to control rising costs, which are affecting their bonus (incentive pay). The employees are internal stakeholders of the factory.
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Answer: True
Question: The general environment, or macroenvironment, includes six forces: economic, technological, demographic, and which three others? You must get all three correct to get value for this question.
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Answer: International, Political-legal, Sociocultural
Question: Don, the owner of a bait and tackle shop, attended an entrepreneurship workshop that discussed the triple bottom line. The triple bottom line measures ______ performance.
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Answer: social, environmental, and financial
Question: Which of the following is defined as a code of moral principles that sets standards for what is “good” and “right” as opposed to “bad” and “wrong” in the conduct of a person or group?
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Answer: Ethics
Question: Which if the following is NOT one of the items on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?
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Answer: Tertiary
Question: A local bakery advertises to have “Tampa’s Best Blueberry Muffin” even though they have never won a contest or have been given any type of official title. Which description best fits the bakery’s actions?
Answer Options:
Answer: Unethical
Question: Don works diligently to accomplish the company goals in an efficient and effective manner, utilizing its resources through planning, organizing, leading, and controlling company resources. Don is __________.
Answer Options:
Answer: managing