Agribusiness management test 3

Which of the following factors is a force for change from within the organization

A change in attitude of your workers toward unannounced layoffs

A wide span of management results in

A flat organization

Which of the following are performance based differences at work

Absenteeism, turnover, organizations citizenship

All of the following are factors that influence job satisfaction except Individual needs, relationships with coworkers, working conditions, company policies

All of these are factors that influence job satisfaction

Which of the following are methods for resolving conflict in organizations Avoidance, smoothing, compromise

All of these can cause conflict?

Organizations may undergo change by simply changing their strategies. Which of the following would NOT come under the broad heading of organization change by means of changing strategy?

Changing job specifications for a number of positions in the organization

Which of the following is NOT one of the characteristics of a bureaucracy

Close personal relationships between supervisors and subordinates

Effective delegation incorporates all the following steps EXCEPT

Closely supervising the subordinate following the delegation

After working in a fast food restaurant for three years to pay for your college tuition, you vowed never to work in a restaurant again. But after graduation the only job offer you receive is a managerial job at a local restaurant. Your acceptance of this job is referred to as

Cognitive dissonance

Essex Incorporated owns a pizza chain, an insurance company, a chain of convenience stores, and a hardware chain. Each business is run by a general manager, and the overall performance of each business is evaluated by the Essex corporate staff. As of late, financial performance has been less than diserable. Which form of organization does Essex have?

Conglomerate (H-form)

The efforts, skills, abilities, time, and loyalty that you bring with you and give to your job are known as

Contributions

The set of values that helps its members understand what the organization considers important is known as

Corporate cultures

Grouping jobs into logical sets is called

Departmentalization

The manner in which an organization's structural components are arranged to manage the total organization is known as organization

Design

Which of the following personality attributes describes the degree of rigidity of a person's beliefs?

Dogmatism

It is usually best for managers to have a low risk propensity

False

Large organizations tend to be less specialized than small organizations

False

Specialization is always a desirable characteristic of jobs

False

When promoting innovation among employees in an organization, a sponsor would be the employee who initially conceives the idea of a particular innovation

False

______________ is the stage in the innovation process where an organization introduces new products or services to the marketplace

Application launch

An organization where power and control are kept at the top levels of management is

Centralized

Which of the following is most correct as regards cooperatives

Farmer cooperatives are declining in terms of numbers, Cooperative may involve inputs, outputs or support functions, The cooperative form of organization has been frequently used in agribusiness,

A regional tractor manufacturing manufacturing operation has the following divisions: manufacturing, finance, human resources, marketing, and shipping/receiving. This is an example of________ departmentalization

Functional

Abraham Lincoln stated that "people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be" This is a belief of someone who

Has an internal locus of control

If you accept a position with an organization that promises advancement opportunities, the organization is providing

Inducements

All of the following are bases for departmentalization expect function, location, customer, product, innovation

Innovation

Which of the following are causes of conflict in organizations

Interdependencies between individuals or groups in the organization, competition between individuals or groups in the organization, differences in goals between individuals or groups in the organization

The job design in which workers are given more activities to perform and more discretion about how to perform them is called

Job enrichment

A System 1 organization is most like

The ideal bureaucracy

All of the following are barriers to effective delegation except

The manager may be too organized to delegate

Which of the following is not a characteristic of a Type A personality

Patience

the extent to which the contributions made by an individual match the inducements offered by the organization is referred to as the

Person-job fit

_____________ innovations are new products or technologies developed by an organization that completely replace the existing products or technologies in an industry

Radical

Which of the following is least correct as regards working relationships

They exist only among individuals

Ace industries Ltd. has employees working three different shifts. Based on this data, we know that the firm is organized, at least in part, on the basis of

Time

A major advantage of the matrix design is its ability to change to meet existing circumstances

True

According to the bureaucratic model, employment decisions must be made on the basis of individual qualifications

True

Dan, one of your co-workers, does acceptable work in terms of quantity and quality but refuses to work late. He is probably not considered a good organizational citizen

True

A supervisor who experiments with new ideas, takes chances with new products, and leads his or her department in new directions has high

Risk propensity

An assembly operation includes four different jobs. Bob spends three weeks on each of these jobs and then starts the cycle over again with the first job of the operation. This is an example of job

Rotation

The extent to which a person believes that he or she is a worthwhile and deserving individual is referred to as

Self-esteem

Which of the following can be used to characterize corporate culture

Shared experiences Shared stories Shared beliefs

The number of subordinates who report directly to a given manager is known as

Span of management

In the employment division of the human resources department some employees dod interviewing, others do employment testing, and a their group checks references. This is an example of

Specialization

Delores is the legal counsel for a major manufacturing facility in the Midwest. Her position is considered a _________ position

Staff

Flat organizations have a fewer levels of management than tall ones

True

If a company sells an unrelated subsidiary and uses the money to buy a related one, this represents an attempt to implement change through a change in structure and design

True

___________ innovations are changes in the physical appearance or performance of a product or service

Technical

Organizations tend to be more centralized when they are small

True

The Miller Brewing Company is an example of an organization that uses continuous-process technology

True

The primary advantage of location departmentalization is that it lets the organization respond to unique customer and environmental characteristics

True

____________ usually causes an organization to incur costs replacing individuals

Turnover

Jane owns a company that prepares and sends customized "goody" baskets to a firm's clients depending on their special requests. This is an example of ___________ technology

Unit

The _______________________ component of an attitude reflects feelings and emotions that an individual has a toward situation

affective

Peter is the production manager for one of the largest California wineries. The technology they use to make wine is _____________ technology

continuous-process

The first stage of the organizational innovation process is

development

In most change situations, there are factors that will make the job of change more difficult and others that seem to ease the change process. The process by which the manager identifies and then eliminates as many of the negatives as possible is called

force-field analysis

Which of the following is a common reason for resistance to change

uncertainty, feelings of loss, differing perceptions

A change in the organizations information processing system is an example of a people-focused change

False

Broad spans of management lead to tall organizations

False

Centralization refers to systematically delegating power and authority throughout the organization to middle and lower level managers

False

A John Deere assembly plant is an example of ________________ technology

Large Batch

The technology in which the product is manufactured in assembly-line fashion by combining component parts into a finished product is

Large batch

Which of the following is an advantage of tall organizations

Less administrative and supervisory responsibility for each manager

Ray owns and operates a small, rural farm. His organization should be _____________ than a large organization

Less specialized

Which of these is the degree to which people believe their behavior has a direct impact on their consequences

Locus of control

All of the following are advantages of specialization except Employees become experts, Managers become experts, managers can exercise greater control, the development of equipment is facilitated

Managers becoming experts

A manager who has only a few subordinates has a span of management that is

Narrow

A system 4 design has

Openness and flexibility, flexibility and communication, communication and participation, participation and flexibility

When you accept a job, you formulate a(n) ______________ with your employer

psychological contract