IS - Investing MIS

Describe examples of how client-server networks are used. More than one answer may be correct.

ALL CORRECT

Who espoused "Theory X" and "Theory Y"?

Douglas McGregor

Input devices for POS (point-of-sale) stations include monitors, printers, and speakers.

FALSE - Input devices for POS (point-of-sale) stations receive (rather than output) information and include barcode scanners, scales, MICR readers, credit/debit card readers.

Green computing" is another term for "telecommuting," given the many ways in which telecommuting helps to conserve resources and protect the environment.

FALSE - Telecommuting is a form of green computing, but the two terms are not synonymous.

In which of the following scenarios is a learning management system (LMS) being used to document student activity? More than one answer may be correct. Students taking an online class are required to attend a weekly class video call and to type "present" in the chat box to indicate they are present for class. Students are able to use the gradebook within their LMS to know what their grade is throughout the semester based on the grades of assignments already submitted and graded. Auto-graded quizzes become available in the LMS after a student has completed the assigned readings that accompany each quiz.

Students taking online classes are required to use the discussion board each week to comment on the readings and reply to three classmates' comments. Auto-graded quizzes become available in the LMS after a student has completed the assigned readings that accompany each quiz.

Which system is able to create purchase orders, manage inventory, and forecast future inventory needs?

Supply chain management system

According to John Locke, a person can collect spring water from public land and purify, bottle, and sell it because these improvements transform that natural resource into personal property.

TRUE

While a decision support system can analyze and interpret a large amount of rapidly changing data, it cannot provide the analysis needed to ultimately make the decision.

TRUE - Decision support systems are used to provide guidance in areas where there are large amounts of rapidly changing data, but the ultimate decision is left up to the manager to make.

Frederick Taylor built scientific management on which of the following beliefs? More than one answer may be correct. When workers are more productive, more employment opportunities arise.When workers are more productive, more employment opportunities arise. When the company is successful, its employees are successful.When the company is successful, its employees are successful. When rules and regulations are enforced with compassion, a company is most productive.When rules and regulations are enforced with compassion, a company is most productive. When hiring, finding the best fit between a worker and a job is essential.When hiring, finding the best fit between a worker and a job is essential

When rules and regulations are enforced with compassion, a company is most productive.

Management information systems (MIS) for communication directly support organizational decision making by allowing all stakeholders to communicate their opinions and insights and participate in making strategic decisions. helping managers communicate, obtain, discuss, and understand the information necessary for strategic decisions. ensuring that managers' decisions and goals are communicated and understood by everyone within the organization. creating a record of the organization's past decisions and their outcomes, which managers can easily refer back to.

helping managers communicate, obtain, discuss, and understand the information necessary for strategic decisions.

John Locke's labor theory of property is applied to modern management theory because it explains what motivates people to work: the desire to become personally wealthier.Correct it assigns responsibility for protecting private property to government, not management. it argues that the products of labor (property or goods) require intelligent management. it explains that management should receive more property or pay than other laborers.

it explains what motivates people to work: the desire to become personally wealthier