Agribusiness Final

false

A change in the organization's information processing system is an example of a people-focused change

factors that facilitate and hinder organization change

A force field analysis identifies

Decision-making under certainty

A manager is deciding how to invest liquid funds. The organizations banks can describe various options available for investment, each of which may have a guaranteed rate of return. This is an example of

Question mark

A product that has a small share of a growing market is known as a

False

A substantive modification to some part of an organization is called organization revitalization

risk propensity

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

A flat organization

A wide span of management results in

Critical path

According to PERT the longest path through the network is called the

time

Ace Industries 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

Administrative costs are lower

All of the following are advantages of product departmentalization except

All these are barriers to delegation

All of the following are barriers to effective delegation except

the point system

All of the following are examples of judgmental methods of performance appraisal except

All of the these are factors that influence job satisfaction

All of the following are factors that influence job satisfaction except

rotation

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

the managerial grid

An organization development technique that assess current leadership styles is

It would appear that she should use a board span of control.

Ann is trying to decide how many subordinated to assign to one of the first line supervisors and she has the following information. The subordinated are well qualified, they are all working on very similar tasks, and they are all located in one small are of the plant.

closely supervising the subordinate following the delegation

Effective delegation incorporates all the following steps except

Star

Bauch & Lomb has a large share of the growing contact lens market. Their contact lens products is an example of a

True

job analysis consists of two different activities: developing job descriptions and job specifications

false

sales volume for a product typically reaches its peak during the growth stage of the products life cycle

organization change

substantive modification of any part of an organization is

false

survey feedback is used to enhance the motivation and satisfaction of people in groups

not trusting subordinates with decisions

George delays giving his decision until after he has an opportunity to thoroughly study the project details that his assistant recommends. What time-management difficulty is most closely related to this behavior?

Avoiding making a decision too quickly

George has made a decision regarding the project delegated to him by the plant manager. He decides to "sit on it" another two weeks though so that his boss and others who participated wont think they rushed to judgement. Which time-management difficulty is most closely related to this behavior?

Distinguishing between high and low payoff activities

He was doing the job right, but not doing the right job. Which time management suggestion sis most closely related to this statement

Business Strategy

If you want to know how an organization will attempt to compete in its chosen markets, you should look at its

improve organizational efficiency

In a bureaucracy, rules, division of labor, and hierarchies of authority

benefits

In human resource management terminology, things such as health insurance and a pension plans are called

force-field analysis

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 eliminated as many of the negatives as possible is called

departmentalization-is not right

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

Distinctive Competence

In their book In Search of Excellence, Peters and Waterman found that successful companies "stuck in their knitting" in other words, they concentrated on those things they do well. To which component of organizational strategy does this ideas most directly relate?

Implementation

In which stage of the decision- making /problem solving process is resistance to change most likely to be the problem

Distinguish between high- and low-payoff activities

Keep your eye on the prize-don't spend time catching minnows when the bass are biting. Which management suggestion is most closely related to this statement?

customer

The loan department for FirstFarmBank, a large midwestern bank has divisions for commercial loans, ag loans, and consumer loans. This is an example of

true

PERT was developed by the U.S. navy to coordinate contractors activities

span of management

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

true

The power lenders have as a result of their job assignments is referred to as legitimate power

recruiting

The process of attracting a pool of qualified applicants who are interested in working for a company is called

all the above-CORRECT

The staffing process includes which of the following?

Behavior that influences the behavior of others without the use of force

The text defines leadership as

The minimum level of fixed costs

The total cost line in breakeven analysis begins at

True

There are 5 basic components or dimensions that characterize corporate culture

false

There are two types of performance behaviors, absenteeism and turnover.

age

Title VII of the 1964 Civil rights act prohibits discrimination on all the following bases except

False

Top management has little influence on an organizations culture

Consideration behavior

Researchers at Ohio State used what term to describe the leadership behavior that is similar to employee centered behavior?

False

Robert has an external locus of control an is thus likely to have a strong desire to participate in the governance of his organization

satisficing

Selecting the first minimally acceptable alternative is called

False

Specialization is always a desirable characteristic of jobs

True

Staff position provide support and advice to line positions

How the strategy is operationalized and executed

Strategy Implementation is concerned with

employee centered

The Michigan studies concluded that the best leader is

true

The Ohio State, Michigan, and managerial grid approach to leadership all specify one "best" style of leadership

Affective

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

Reward power

The ability to control salary increases, promotions, and interesting hob assignments is known as

The appropriate leader style will vary from one set of circumstances to another.

The basic assumption of situational approaches to leadership is that

Contributions

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

Uncertainty

Under which decision making condition is the decision maker unaware of all the alternatives and the risk and consequences associated with each alternative?

They live their lives in a more balanced fashion

What differentiates Type B people from type A?

Uncertainty is also high

When both change and complexity are high, which of the following is true?

uncertainty

When general motors corporation constructed a new high tech facility in Kansas City to replace its old assembly plant, many of the older workers took early retirement rather than move closer to the new plant. The most probable reason for such employee resistance go change

third-party peacemaking

When organization development consultants observe the communication patterns and methods of cooperation and conflict resolution in an organization, they are using the intervention technique called

strategy

When organizational change involves planned alteration of the relationship between the organization and its environment, the change primarily involves the area of

True

When the culture and strategy appear not to be in tune, effectiveness often suffers

A very long list of traits and the presence of alternative explanations for result made the studies of little value

Which of the following best represents the outcome of the work done to determine what personal traits can be used to predict leader effectiveness?

All of these are correct

Which of the following can be used to characterize corporate culture

Several similar businesses owned by one corporation

Which of the following factors would probably make use of a matrix organization design INadvisable?

development

Which of the following involves general abilities and is usually directed at managerial employees?

LPC score

Which of the following is NOT a part of what Fiedler calls situational favorableness?

All of the statements are true

Which of the following is NOT a true statement

job specialization

Which of the following is NOT an attempt to overcome the boredom associated with the kinds of jobs that typically result from the application of scientific management techniques

All of these are reasons for resistance to change

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

Michigan Studies

Which of the following is a leader behavior model?

Change in response to things as they happen is the preferred method of change

Which of the following is an INACCURATE statement of what we know about organization change

Less administrative and supervisory responsibility for each manager

Which of the following is an advantage of tall organization

Defender- is not right

Which of the following is likely the most appropriate strategy for use in an unstable environment

All these are correct

Which of the following is most correct as regards organization design

Personal demands

Which of the following is not a basic cause of stress in organizations?

Global competition

Which of the following is not a challenge of leadership mentioned in the text?

Point describing the optimal mix of products

Which of the following is not a description of the breakeven point

Social support

Which of the following is not an organizational stressor?

It is unrealistic to combine the behavior and trait approaches to one theory

Which of the following is not one of the criticisms of Fiedler's contingency model of leadership?

Vestibule

Which of the following training methods provides supervised practice in manual tasks in an area where the emphasis is on safety and learning rather than on productivity?

changing the job specifications for a number of positions in an organization

Which of the following would NOT come under the broad heading of organization change by means of changing strategy

Chief legal counsel

Which of the following would be considered a professional staff position

Plant Location

Which of the following would be of least or no concern when developing a marketing strategy?

Training programs

Which of these exemplifies a people approach to organization change?

locus of control

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

Burnout

Work stress can be caused by all of the following except

All of these contribute to personal and positive working relationships

Working relationships are likely to be personal and positive when

Corporate culture

_______ is an element in the organization's internal environment

technical

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

true

a queuing model is a decision-making technique that helps plan waiting lines as in a Safeway grocery store, for instance.

true

the person-job fit to is the extent to which the contributions made by the individual match the inducements offered by the organization

true

the strategy a firm develops for competing in a particular market is know as its business strategy

Asset Management

Managers who are developing production strategies would be least concerned about

non programmed decisions

Next year will be the first time that regional manufacturing organization will close one of its plants. This type of decision in this situation that will be encountered by its upper levels of management are

true

One of the four most common reasons for resisting things is different perceptions

performance

on which basis does current employment law permit an employer to discriminate

true

one of the elements of strategy implementation is tactical planning