Spring 2022 Managment 3000 Quiz Answers

Which of the following represent a model specifically designed as an abundance-based, bottom-up, positive approach?

Appreciative Inquirey (AI) model

Kirby Frigo has opened a dog grooming business. Frigo, like other small business owners, probably will experience:

Burdensome governement regulations

______ is the ability to recognize, understand, pay attention to, and manage one's own emotions and the emotions of others.

Emotional intelligence

In his contingency model of leadership, Fiedler argued that most leaders need to adapt their leadership style to the situation.

False

In the leader role, managers pass privileged information directly to subordinates, whereas in the disseminator role, managers send information to people outside of their organizations.

False

In-process planning, sometimes referred to as blue-print planning, involves formulating outcomes and action statements before moving forward.

False

Leaders are seen as motivating primarily through extrinsic processes while managers motivate primarily through intrinsic processes.

False

The culture of compliance refers to when people trust online reviews of their companies more than what companies communicate.

False

The influence of managers is most clearly seen, according to Mintzberg, in the figurehead role.

False

The most notable contribution Weber provided to modern management was the creation of the 14 principles of management.

False

The vision statement describes the strategy a firm will use to follow its vision along with a description of why do they exists.

False

According to Professor Jay A. Conger, Professor at Canada's McGill University, the major forces for the next generation of leaders will be:

Global competitiveness & diversity

Which of the following statements best reflects the relationship between goal setting and job satisfaction?

Goal setting is indirectly and contingently related to employee job satisfaction

Which of the following describes a shortcoming of Taylor's work?

He thought of workers as machine tools to be manipulated rather than as human beings

Which of the following is an element of natural disaster and human induced environmental problems?

Health, food, stress

Strategic, administrative, and operating plans are:

Hierarchial plans

With a complex and dynamic environment, the need for control will be:

High

All of the following are key questions managers have to think about when in the planning mode EXCEPT:

How they will do it?

Which of the following represents the level of strategy concerned with the large-scale actions involved in entering a brand-new geographic market?

International strategy

Principles of scientific management include all of these EXCEPT:

Maintain a unity of command, which ensured that each supervisor would explain to each of the employees in his group or division what aspect of his job to focus on.

Which of the following leadership profile describe degree to which the leader is self-centered and uses a face-saving approach?

Self-protective

Which of the following is a characteristic of a mechanistic organizational structure?

Specialized tasks

A(n) _____ is any group or individual who can affect or is affected by an organization's strategies, major transactions, and activities.

Stakeholder

A leader who wants to communicate a vision in such a way that it provides meaning will likely use:

Storytelling

Which term describes the process that firms use to study and understand the many different layers and aspects of their competitive environment?

Strategic analysis

According to Fiedler and the contingency model of leadership, the most important factor that determines how favorable a situation is to a leader is leader-member relations.

True

According to the GLOBE project, countries in the Latin American cluster tend to be more collective, have high power distance, and have high uncertainty avoidance.

True

Companies and organizations change leadership and strategies and make structural and systems changes to meet changing competition, market forces, and customers and end users' needs and demands.

True

For ethical leaders, authenticity and integrity, in addition to their values, are also important components of character and behavior that must also be translated into attitude and action toward followers, external stakeholders, and broader communities.

True

Micropreneurs are entrepreneurs who start small and plan to stay small.

True

Planned change is an intentional activity or set of intentional activities that are designed to create movement toward a specific goal or end.

True

The Italian Renaissance saw the reintroduction of classical knowledge and the emergence of new knowledge and learning, much of which had economic and business implications.

True

The first stage in the planning process is developing an awareness of the present state.

True

The goal of a hospital to increase the number of patients by 5% is an official goal.

True

While the entrepreneur role describes managers who initiate change, the disturbance or crisis handler role depicts managers who must involuntarily react to conditions.

True

Which of the following represents a consequentialist, "ends justifies means" approach?

Utilitarianism

According to Professor Conger of McGill University, a strategic opportunist is:

an organizational visionary

While resource allocator is a type of _______ role, disseminator is a(n) ______ role.

decisional; informational

As a production manager, Sylvia just received the report that the product output is 20 percent below the projected target. She immediately takes the corrective actions to remedy the crisis. Sylvia is engaging in the role of a

disturbance handle

According to Weber, which type of leadership consisted of familial and religious?

Charismatic domination

Which of the following remains the world's dominant religion, representing around 31% of the world's population?

Christianity

List the three categories of entrepreneurs.

Classic entrepenuers, entrepreneurs, and multipreneurs

Which of the following is an element of economic forces?

Competitors and supply chain

Which change model argues that an organization is constantly developing and adapting to its environment, much like a living organism?

Complex Adaptive Systems

When a company decide to shrink its operations to reduce costs in order to survive, it is employing a ____ strategy.

Defensive

Navim Jain sold stock to investors in order to finance Sparkart, LLC, a company that markets software to track how many times music is played and shared among peers. Jain used _____ financing.

Equity: Equity financing is a form of financing consisting of funds raised through the sale of stock in a business

Which of these refers to our choices and decision-making processes and our moral principles and values that govern our behaviors regarding what is right and wrong?

Ethics

Which of the following represents the final step in the decision making process?

Evaluate the effectiveness of selected alternative

International trade specialists that buy goods at a discount from small businesses and resell them abroad are called:

Export trading companies

As part of their responsibilities, all managers get involved in planning, scheduling, and monitoring the design, development, production, and delivery of the organization's products and services.

False

Brainstorming occurs when group members choose not to voice their concerns or objections because they would rather keep the peace and not annoy or antagonize others

False

Ethics is related to influencing behaviors to act in accordance to the law or face consequences—referred to as a "stick" approach.

False

In a liaison role, a manager performs formal duties like greeting customers and signing contracts.

False

In deficit-based change, leaders assume that employees will change if they can be inspired to aim for greater degrees of excellence in their work.

False

A firm's decisions on how to serve customers and compete against rivals is called ______.

Strategic positioning

"S" in the SWOT analysis stands for ______.

Strengths

________ are desired goals, objectives, or end states that individuals wish to pursue.

Terminal Values

As the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Organic Foods International, Rebecca signs major contracts with various food suppliers as well as many legal documents. Rebecca is playing the role of a

figurehead

Fiedler's Contingency Model of Leadership suggests:

managers need to design the situation to fit the leader because leadership style is relatively unchangeable

Kotter studied a number of successful general managers over a five-year period and found that they spend most of their time

with others

According to Mintzberg, managers averaged ____ written and _____ verbal contacts per day with most of these activities lasting less than ____ minutes.

36;16;9

In low uncertainty avoidance countries managers are advised to provide structure and order to reduce uncertainty and ambiguity for subordinates.

False

In societies with low power distance, people are more likely to accept that power inequality is good and acceptable.

False

Mechanistic organizational structures work best in unstable, complex, changing environments.

False

Research finds that the logical, analytical route always leads to superior decisions.

False

Strategic objectives usually identify why a firm exists.

False

The Code of Sumerians was a listing of 282 laws that regulated a wide variety of behaviors, including business dealings, personal behavior, interpersonal relations, and punishments.

False

Transformational change refers to small refinements in current organizational practices or routines that do not challenge, but rather build on or improve, existing aspects and practices within the organization..

False

Multipreneurs are businesspeople who have tried a succession of entrepreneurial start-ups without finding an area in which they could be successful

False: Mulipreneurs are entrepreneurs who start a series of companies.

The WTO's most important functions are all of these EXCEPT:

Financing the infrastructure development projects in less developed countries.

One of the advantages of owning a small business is:

Flexibility

Who is known as the father of scientific management?

Frederick Taylor

XY Deliveries, a package delivery company, is organized as XY North, XY South, XY East, XY West, and XY Central divisions in the United States. Which of the following best describe the structure at XY Deliveries?

Geographic structure

Which of the following country cluster is low on charismatic leadership style, according to the GLOBE project?

Middle East

A manufacturing company uses a separate quality assurance department to monitor and enforce quality standards. This organization is using what type of control system?

Noncybernetic

Which of these is perhaps the most common way of depicting the formal organization?

Organizational chart

Which of the following models of leadership suggests the motivational function of the leader consists of increasing personal payoffs to organizational members for work attainment and reducing barriers in order employees to be more successful?

Path-goal

A common use of business plans is to:

Persuade lenders and investors to finance the venture

_______ change is an intentional activity or set of intentional activities that are designed to create movement toward a specific goal or end.

Planned change

Which of the following represent the first step in the planning process?

Set goals

Which of the following is NOT a dimension of cultural intelligence?

Societal Dimension

Which of the following describe long-range planning activity?

Suzie occupying an executive position at ABC Manufacturing is frequently involved in strategic planning and development.

The first step in starting your own business is the creation of a unique marketable idea.

True: The first step in starting your own business is a self-assessment

Which is the only truly global organization that deals with the rules of trade around the world?

WTO

Which of the following describe mission of an organization?

What is our strategic purpose for operating?

Which of the following describe a steadfast devotion to improving the welfare of others?

Altruism

Which of the following argues that leaders assume that people are inclined to embrace change when they are respected as individuals with intrinsic worth, agency, and capability?

Appreciative mindset

______ has roots in the early dynasties but only became fully developed during the Han dynasty.

Bureaucracy

Which of these describe the area of applied ethics that focuses on real-world situations and the context and environment in which transactions occur?

Business Ethics

_______ is the generation of new or original ideas; it requires the use of imagination and the ability to step back from traditional ways of doing things and seeing the world.

Creativity

Which of the following describe the first phase of an Appreciative Inquiry (AI) practice?

Define

A Theory X leader would be more likely to exercise which of the following leadership styles?

Directive autocrat

According to Mintzberg, which of the following are informational roles?

Disseminator, monitor, & spokesperson

Michael is a senior in high school and wants to major in a business-related class when he goes to college. Michael plans to select a variety of courses from the School of Business curriculum yet not select a major. After selecting courses based upon availability and interest he earns a sufficient number of credits within this chosen area that enables him to graduate with a major in marketing. Michael has engaged in:

Domain planning

According to Follett, in _______, one party dictates the terms of the arrangement.

Dominance

According to Hofstede, which of the following is an implication of high individualism?

Employee-employer relationship on the market

Which of the following is a trend that is changing the face of entrepreneurship and small business ownership?

Entrepreneurial diversity

Organizational planning will be most beneficial when:

The market is complex and unstable

Which of the following is NOT true of the specialization of labor?

The span of control became very narrow with specialization.

Research evidence on the managerial grid supports which of the following statements?

There is no universally effective style of leadership